Keep Darwinism Out of Pandemic Response

Two Darwinians inject “survival of the fittest” into the current crisis. So if the virus kills a patient, is it the fittest?

Across America and the world, volunteers are working hard to help those affected by the COVID-19 crisis. On Special Report (Fox News) today, host Bret Baier interviewed Chef Jose Andres, whose organization World Central Kitchen is providing 225,000 meals a day to people across America, regardless of politics, religion or age, who just need a plate of food to keep going. With help from restaurateurs and chefs in cooperation with governors and mayors, they have already served more than 4.5 million fresh meals in 200 cities. Jose’s passion to serve his fellow Americans to help the country get through the crisis is evident in his expression and gestures. Injecting Darwinism into this scene would be like playing white noise so loud that the host and guest would have to run for cover.

From the article:

That’s essentially what two Darwinians from the University of South Carolina have done. Look at the title of their piece at The Conversation above a huge picture of Darwin’s hoary face with baggy eyes: “What does ‘survival of the fittest’ mean in the coronavirus pandemic? Look to the immune system.” Pragash and Mitzi Nagarkatti offer this blessing to the likes of Jose Andres:

""Charles Darwin popularized the concept of survival of the fittest as a mechanism underlying the natural selection that drives the evolution of life. Organisms with genes better suited to the environment are selected for survival and pass them to the next generation.

Thus, when a new infection that the world has never seen before erupts, the process of natural selection starts all over again.

In the context of the coronavirus pandemic, who is the “fittest”?

This is a challenging question….""

What a bizarre article.

The article they are complaining about is here https://theconversation.com/what-does-survival-of-the-fittest-mean-in-the-coronavirus-pandemic-look-to-the-immune-system-137355

It has no mention of Jose Andres. But is is a reasonably interesting article discussing how the immune system tries to deal with the corona-virus.

There’s never been a virus-free world. Viruses, bacteria, fungus, germs, sickness, death have always been with us. They even live within us — at all times. So the scam is to think that one will achieve a virus-free, germ-free, bacteria-free world before one can go on with life and living. Life would not be possible if it weren’t for them.

When a person is in hospice (dying), they are susceptible to contracting and dying from anything — because their immunity is zero. Why should those people even be tested for Covid-19, and added to the count? They clearly had a pre-existing health condition that predetermined their outcome — as well as 99% of those dying from “Covid-19” — even though the mortality from ALL-causes has decreased! The world doesn’t work that way.

Go easy on the carbs — most of the comorbidities are from diabetes — including obesity, heart disease, high-blood pressure, autoimmune diseases, neuropathies, etc. Unfortunately, that is the diet recommended by the medical, dietary, and nutrition epidemiologists that created the REAL epidemic in the world. Treat oneself as though one has diabetes. There is no downside to that — even though a lot of 300 and 400 lbers are afraid of “starving” to death. And so they are advised by the health industry, to eat every 3 hours — and make sure it is sugar (carbohydrates). Is it any wonder people are dying from that advice?

I think life should just go on; it’s done a pretty good job for millions of years up to now. It doesn’t need micromanaging by Bill and Melinda Gates to achieve perfection.

The COVID-19 Wuhan virus is a plague that rains down on the just and unjust alike. As an actual source of mortality, it probably ranks well behind the current iteration of influenza, and perhaps even pneumonia. In fact, most of the deaths from influenza and pneumonia are now being assigned to the corona virus as a matter of course, whether the presence of corona virus is found or not. Almost all of the mortality recorded so far is in persons that either have passed or are near the end of their reproductive years, even though they may have lived many years longer than that narrow span of time.

Darwinism does not apply. It is only effective in those instances where the victims are still of the age of reproduction, and it affects COMING generations by removal from the gene pool, those who cannot adapt to a changed condition. Thus “survival of the fittest” is a meaningless assertion in this context. More exactly, it would be “thinning of the herd”, or “pruning the deadwood”, to put it in crude terms.

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