A child could die from cancer or from falling while playing, and no vaccination or blood thinner can prevent this. I can understand op's reference to providence in not having to face these tragedies.
Yeah, but his kid died of measles, and his other kid got hit by a car (something that is actually also solvable with technology).
Literally every problem discussed in the article was solvable or mitigatable with science or technology, except the political problem of fascism, which was effectively solved by 20 mm cannon fire from Dahl's Spitfire fighter plane.