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Excuse the french, but as my daddy used to say, “Mother Nature is a bitch”.
From the experienced hunter who recently was mauled by a “dead” coyote he had shot when putting a leash over its head to drag it away when it “woke” up, to fires, to being under an overpass the moment an earthquake pancakes it, to a tiny bite from a tick or a mosquito, to a man made virus that can become a part of the everlasting landscape of disease, earthquakes, floods and standing on the rim of a semi dormant volcano right as it blows.

The earth has had its life altering cataclysms, thousands and thousands of times. The length of human time here is so puny it is folly to think we really know anything about frequency or predictability. A few days early warning for the major events will be meaningless. And really major, life shattering natural events are going to occur. If you live your life without living through one, time wise, it is a non measurable statistical blip of absolutely no natural importance. Nature us going to eradicate life or substantially change it with forces far beyond our efforts to remediate the consequences as she pleases.

Strangely, despite our science and unicorn belief that we are or can be in control (i.e. if we just wear masks), the futility of our efforts brings us closer to the beliefs of our ancestors who faced death way earlier than us in more terrible ways with the simple phrase, “It is in God’s hands”.