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Extraterrestrial First Contact: What Does a Virus Have in Common with Aliens?
Friday, February 21, 2020 14:38
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The human response to the spread of the coronavirus named COVID-19 provides some interesting examples of the importance of communication during a crisis and the danger of misinformation. What does that have to do with Direct First Contact with an extraterrestrial civilization? Plenty. The epidemic is an event of worldwide significance drawing much attention. Communication is important so that hospitals and health agencies can respond. The lack of communication in China in the first few weeks of the epidemic, and in fact the suppression of communication, may have aggravated the problem by slowing response. Now health organizations are dealing with the dangers of misinformation. Those broad challenges could be issues in a Direct First Contact event.
The United Nations and World Health Organization are trying to counteract COVID-19 misinformation with a new coordinated public relations effort. Some of the rumors about COVID-19 include that it was produced by a nation as a weapon and that it can be stopped by eating garlic. Rumors are dangerous. If people are busy eating garlic, thinking that it protects them from the virus, they may not be doing the things they should be doing, such as washing their hands regularly. The more toxic rumors, such as COVID-19 being a bioweapon, spreads fear and distrust of authorities. And that makes it tougher for those authorities to respond to the outbreak in order to protect the public.
You can imagine the rumors that would fly during a Direct First Contact event. Social media sites across the globe would be flooded with rumors and misinformation. The UN response to misinformation in this health epidemic can provide a road map for possible human response during a Direct First Contact event. I often look at crisis events through the lens of alien First Contact. It may be our only hope in trying to plan for such an event. And I realize that the discovery of a far-off alien signal would be much less of a safety and public relations concern. However, Direct First Contact, where aliens come to our solar system to say hello to humans, would provide both excitement and anxiety in the human population, similar in many respects to a global public health threat. It’s impossible to say how Direct First Contact may occur, if it ever does occur, but we can study human events to see how humans may react and determine what may be necessary in response.
