Thoughts on COVID?
Thoughts on COVID?
I can’t help but think if we didn’t live in such a dense agrarian techno-industrial globalised world a pandemic like this would never have happened. It only spread quickly because of extreme globalisation. COVID has lead to so much preventable disability and death.
Edit: Maybe I have a different definition of anaracho primitivism to you all but I’m reading through the lense of James C Scott’s Against the Grain, and the problems with the agricultural revolution.
At what point in history are you starting from?
Spanish flu?
Various black deaths / plagues throughout history?
Agricultural revolution.
Living on permament land with majority reliance on grain and livestock. Increasing chance of catching and trasmitting illness compared to hunter gatherer counterparts.
Remember back in 1665, when globalization was not yet a thing? When people lived in the land, hardly moving more than a days walk from their birth place in their whole life? And still the black death came and took half the population.
Please read my edit and the first thread of comments. My intention was to discuss pre-agricultural revolution.
Pre-agricutural revolution, i.e. when people were nomadic? Guess what, they had pandemics even back then. They took a little longer to travel, they did not cross from Europe to the Americas or vice versa, but as long as people move from one point of the world to another, diseases travel with them. And spread.
If the goal was to defeat COVID, there were such simpler solutions than avoiding globalization... if everyone masked and vaccinated as soon as they could, COVID would have been severely stunted and wouldn't have survived 2 years.
have you checked the community you’re in?
I’m talking about hunter gatherer society, not a pragmatic goal to defeat covid.
Dude,
You're doing a great job of replying, elaborating, and explaining yourself. And carrying the conversation.
Ignore the downvotes. It's a weird bug on lemmy.
Thanks. Appreciate it :)
I mean I’m not suprised my views are unpopular, I just thought they would be more popular in an anprim community.
As I understand it, many of the big pandemics started because of raising many animals in close proximity, those animals develop some sickness, and at some point it makes the jump from the animal to humans.
When a virus or bacteria starts in humans, the progression of the disease is more gradual, so our immune systems have time to develop responses. But when it jumps the tracks from animals we have less defense built up.
All of that to say, a globally connected world means the disease spreads faster, but it would likely reach everyone eventually, and they wouldn't have an immune defense whether it hit them two weeks after introduction to the human population or a year after.
yes completely agree. I edited my post to be more specific. Maybe anarcho-primistivism is not exactly what I thought it to be.