Isabelle Stengers and Dider Gille write in 'Body Fluids' "What will we say to those who ignore advice and continue to make contacts known to be at risk? Will w

Isabelle Stengers and Dider Gille write in 'Body Fluids' "What will we say to those who ignore advice and continue to make contacts known to be at risk? Will we treat them as irresponsible, to be lectured to, put under observation, and converted? In that case, our future scenario is assured: that of the child in the glass bubble, for whom the outside environment means death; that of the obsessional struggle against all unmonitored contact as potentially the source of death." While they are here writing of 'safer sex' discourse, but I think their reminder that our bodies are necessarily exposed to danger. There may be, after all, fates worse than death and perhaps the over-sheltered, over-mediated life (one thinks of Huxley's Brave New World) comes about when all we do is think of the children. But this is all very speculative, so who knows?