Society must counter the current ignorance and disrespect for our "microcosmos," ...and our sciences and decisions thereof

We've unlocked discoveries and management of the world within our bodies, why are our governments now reversing this progress?

Excerpt: "We know how to prevent disease, “but the choices individuals and societies have made,” Mr. Levenson writes, make it much harder to do so.

We may shudder at the Victorian doctor who refuses to take responsibility for a hundred dead mothers, but we should feel the same concern over decisions to cut vital programs that help us track and fight disease. “Wielding our distinct form of technological smarts,” Mr. Levenson writes, “without being aware of what the invisible world of life can do makes us more vulnerable, not less.”

If we want to preserve the victories accumulated over two centuries against the worst killers of the microbe world, we must rebuild public-health systems, monitor disease, protect and fund science, and recognize that we are not the only “actors.” We are also acted upon by the tiny creatures all around us."

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