When [disease] Can't Be Stopped, That's Where

One Of The Reasons People Might Be Fallible, Why We Might Fail To Do What We Try To Do Isignorance, That We Have A Limited Understanding Of The Laws Of The World - The Physical Laws That Govern The World And Of All The Particulars Of The World Upon Which Those Laws Work. And Then There's Ineptitude, Meaning That The Knowledge Is Available, But Individuals Fail To Apply It Correctly. The Third Source Is "necessary Fallibility." That Is, We're Never Going To Be Omniscient, There Is Some Knowledge That We Will Simply Never Achieve, And There Are Limits To What We Will Be Able To Do.

No Matter What Measures Are Taken, Doctors Will Sometimes Falter, And It Isn't Reasonable To Ask That We Achieve Perfection. What Is Reasonable Is To Ask That We Never Cease To Aim For It.

In The End, People Don't View Their Life As Merely The Average Of All Its Moments-which, After All, Is Mostly Nothing Much Plus Some Sleep. For Human Beings, Life Is Meaningful Because It Is A Story. A Story Has A Sense Of A Whole, And Its Arc Is Determined By The Significant Moments, The Ones Where Something Happens. Measurements Of People's Minute-by-minute Levels Of Pleasure And Pain Miss This Fundamental Aspect Of Human Existence. A Seemingly Happy Life Maybe Empty. A Seemingly Difficult Life May Be Devoted To A Great Cause. We Have Purposes Larger Than Ourselves.

You Know, 97 Percent Of The Time, If You Come Into A Hospital, Everything Goes Well. But Three Percent Of The Time, We Have Major Complications.

The Striking Thing Is That Who Doesn't Really Have The Authority To Do Any Of This. It Can't Tell Governments What To Do. It Hires No Vaccinators, Distributes No Vaccine. It Is A Small Geneva Bureaucracy Run By Several Hundred International Delegates Whose Annual Votes Tell The Organization What To Do But Not How To Do It.…the Only Substantial Resource That Who Has Cultivated Is Information And Expertise.