Wow. Another “We’re all gonna die!” scream....I love “could” articles. WE could get struck by an enormous meteor, thus ending life as we know it. We could be burnt to a crisp by a an exploding sun. etc. The bottom line is that God is in control. All the yelling and worrying won’t change that.
God gave us the sense to not play games in the lab and to get off our duffs when the game gets out of hand.
“The bottom line is that God is in control. All the yelling and worrying won’t change that.”
You want to invoke God in this thing. OK, I’m game.
You ever hear the phrase “God helps those who help themselves”? Well, it is Biblically based. The Sea of Reeds (NOT the Red Sea) didn’t split just because Moses lifted his staff (like in the Charleton Heston movie), but because one Nachshon ben Aminadav went into the sea up to his neck in a display of not just faith, but of doing everything that he, as a mere human, could do. https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/2199147/jewish/Nachshon-ben-Aminadav-The-Man-Who-Jumped-Into-the-Sea.htm Sitting around on a couch and praying for a miracle isn’t going to get you one - God only grants those to people/societies that deserve them, and not a small part of that is that said person or society has done all that they could to help themselves.
That said, I’m not going around with my hair on fire, claiming that The End is Nigh. Sooner or later we’re GOING to have a massive and highly lethal pandemic - but it isn’t necessarily going to be THIS time and THIS virus. But we’d be rather stupid if we were complacent and didn’t take common sense precautions like washing hands frequently, quarantining people coming from areas known to have the corona virus, and researching this disease like crazy to find either a vaccine or a cure. Being complacent and, worse, making fun of those trying to introduce some “common sense disease control” (which, unlike gun control, I’m in favor of) into our world isn’t very smart.