Hmmmm...
Well, I’ll guess we’ll just have to tax having pre-marital sex and/or having multiple partners like we do tobacco.
That could also be part of those “wellness plans” that insurance companies have and will be force-majeur as part of obamacare.
When they first started reporting about AIDS in the media, they told us in 20 years we will all have a close friend or relative dead of AIDS. Well, here it is 30 years later and this disease still infects a MINISCULE number of americans.
15 years ago(maybe more) the media started telling us about a new “superbug” version of tuberculosis that came out of soviet prisons that was drug resistant and highly virulent. They said there was no cure for it and it would soon become a pandemic. Well, here it is 15 years later and virtually no one in america has this disease.
SARS, west nile virus, hantavirus, swine flu, bird flu, lyme disease, Ebola...all of these were supposed to be the next pandemic. Never happened.
Polio and leprosy were supposedly making a comeback in the third world and would spread to the developed world due to vaccines no longer being produced. Never happened.
Action and consequence.
Incurable not uncurable
Sometimes I get the feeling the world is purposely designed to be K-selected, in a way we can’t imagine, since we can’t see the alternatives.
Let things get too “r” for too long, and a myriad of things happen, which all seem perfectly designed to unavoidably turn the balance back towards K-selection.