“For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind” (Hosea 8:7) warns us that we should anticipate suffering serious consequences as the outcome of our own bad actions or negligence. However, there is also the parable of the positive aspect of sowing, whereby good acts can lead to betterment: “For whatever a man sows, this he will also reap” (Galatians 6:7). Both parables have something to offer in the “lessons learned” from that fateful August in 2005 when Hurricane Katrina devastated areas of Louisiana and Mississippi and now, some 15 years after, when natural disasters have become the “new normal” in public health.
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