Could a 'controlled avalanche' stop the coronavirus faster, and with fewer deaths? https://latimes.com/science/story/2020-04-25/could-a-controlled-avalanche-stop-the-coronavirus-faster-and-with-fewer-death…
Why not a ‘delicate tsunami’? Or a ‘precise eruption’? Perhaps a ‘surgical ragnarok’?
I thought one of the benefits of the end of Modernism was supposed to be that people would stop thinking they could control gigantic chaotic forces with clever fragile schemes.