Swine Flu Pandemic and Human Extinction

In 1680, a bird species that could not fly called Dodo, extinct from the earth surface. This is probably the first human concern of its surrounding that any living being could face the same thing as well as human. An environmental conscious maybe built in our ancestor’s mind due to this fact. From this moment onward up to now, we believe that so many species already gone or being threatened. Sumateran tiger or single tusk rhino in Ujung Kulon probably good examples that just happen in our backyard.

Why these species are gone? Are they no longer needed in to imbalance this ecosystem? Probably they just simply too weak to stand on this fierce natural competition. I believe that this mother nature always find a way to keep all in balance state as long as everything goes naturally as well. When there is dry, she pours the rain. When there is birth, some are passed away. There are positive and negative polar, yin and yang that keep all things in correct order.

But why human seem too superior among other creature on earth. Meanwhile others facing extinction, human population increase in geometric series manner. In year 1000 there were only around 300 million human on earth. This number was triple fold in 1800s into 1 billion. Now in year 2009 more than 6 billion human become world inhabitant, and this number keep growing rapidly. Is this a sign that we are really needed by this earth so that all in this universe seems support us to keep growing?

This nature seems do not really like us actually. So many pandemic diseases were struck us such as malaria, cholera, and leprosy but we can successfully beat them all by medical inventions such as penicillin in 1928. We even can move into advanced biological engineering such as tube baby and cloning which can lead us to break the infertility barrier that prevent any human from its basic need which is reproduction. No wonder that our headcount keep growing in even extreme manner. The two world wars and a number of other wars in this century do not prevent us to keep breeding.

However, now a number of new disease type are found from AIDS, SARS, Avian Flu, up to the latest strain of viral disease called Swine Flu. Are we will again find a comprehensive way to wipe out these disease or this is a sign of the human end? I believe these things just a way that nature has, to keep the balance and select the best to keep standing on this earth. Hopefully, I considered as fit enough to stand and selected to continue the creation scenario that God already write long before. And so billions of other human do.

This frightening fact of Swine Flu Pandemic has already knocking our door. At least 50 people already confirmed Swine Flu positive in Indonesia. The worse thing is that in my office a Malaysian worker was suspected. A formal warning email already broadcasted internally. All employees recommended wearing mask during working especially for those who has flu symptoms. Even for more serious flu symptoms they suggested to directly go to Suliati Saroso Infection Hospital.

But let us not worry too much so that affecting our daily live. Once again this is just a way to meet natural balance. Remember, human population is already far more growing unnaturally like a cancer cell in this earth skin. However, once again I hope that I want to be fit enough to survive this turmoil. It is indeed a selfish thought, but I bet you are the same. I also believe no matter how big any pandemic disease strike us nowadays, human being is still far from extinction.

Mask as Swine Flu Prevention

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