Life brings people together. Death can bring people together also but not as avoiding the necessities or essential risk of life. The funereal celebration of death is in the name of a life lived.
The moral presumption that our goal should be the in principle prevention of all death at any cost to life is anti-life if not insanity. It is the denial of death. It is liberal moral purism run amok. The denial of risk is also the denial of choice in action and value determination.
The proclaimed pandemic and its political consequences have made clear the anti-life attitude-become-policy of “safetyism.” Safety at all costs in the name of life. And yet simultaneously the potential death of the whole, especially in terms of economic relations, is ignored. This is individualism run amok. Every individual life becomes a universal concern thus jeopardizing the conditions of the general organic dynamism and vitality of life.
Viruses are interesting because presumably it’s not clear whether they are living or not-living. Yet they are part of the natural constitution of our very bodies, populating the microbiome in great number. They are part of the intelligence of immunity. So it seems they are part of life in working with or as the body in maintaining the integrity and purposefulness of the whole of the body, namely the goal of vitality, vigor and virility.
Viruses are not the enemy and only become so when the immune system is compromised and unable to “commune” with the presumably “invasive” virus to further enhance the immune response. So the virus is acclimated to our body and the body accommodates the virus if organic health plays out naturally. [I would like to note at this point that I am not an expert in virology, I only play one on Facebook.] Nevertheless there is an organic balance when the immune system is not over-stimulated as with some vaccines or it is unresponsive to foreign viruses due to a weakness within itself.
When we seek our health externally through vaccines or symptom ameliorative medicines, then we begin to weaken our organic immune response because of fear, self-doubt, improper nutrition and being out of touch with the spirit power and energy of the body to heal itself.
Living becomes out of touch with Life. Our inherent power and well-being becomes expropriated by a medical rationality which objectifies the human subject and his/her subjectivity. The expropriation by the military model of medicine and the consequent forfeiting of our power to heal ourselves is the first “harm” done and the first compromise of the principle of “first do no harm.”
