Thinking beyond the “epidemic of epidemics”

Abstract

The possibility of precise prediction is the key to possible intervention in physical processes. So the living sciences, which only allow probabilistic knowledge, with a very large number of random variables, do not allow any human action of prevention or adjustment? This is not the case: Darwinian theory, by bringing historicity back to the dimensions of "nature", does not allow us to make predictions, but, by allowing us to understand, it makes us capable of acting, if we take the risk of relying on the best knowledge available. Examining the frequency of viral epidemic events in recent years shows that some degree of prediction about something similar to the Covid-19 pandemic would have been possible, something could have, and may in the future, be decided to equip us to deal with similar events.