That is what happens when you try to control everything, you play "God" and stuff comes back with vengeance.
Just look at the antibiotic resistant common bacteria, Round Up resistant weeds, etc.
What am I to see?
People today are healthier, live longer, and eat more than ever before.
World hunger is on the retreat.
There are many many many social problems.
But there's no meaningful argument against the fact that medical and industrial progress has consistently caused the simple problems of starvation and plague to retreat, step by painful step.
Just in some numbers:
When the Soviet Union collapsed, the number of people living in undernourishment conditions was about a billion. Today - despite the fact that the population of Earth has clearly grown - this is
805 million. Less people are starving in
absolute numbers. Comparable to the grim darkness of the pre-industrial age, when hunger was commonplace in even the wealthiest parts of the world, this is nothing short of fantastic.
Malaria is on the decline, and has last year been eliminated in yet another country. HIV is on
decline in Africa - a disease from which we have no cure and no vaccine, and yet civilization is making its inevitable advance.
Basic hygiene works. NBC suits work. Quarantines work. Civilization works.
In the battle between a virus and the United States of America, my money is on the United States of America, President Barack Obama, and the United States Army.
They're going to win, again.