May be ridiculous but my theory

[Happymind]

Is that mother nature is teaching us all a valuable lesson here.

After years of abusing our earth, our environment, the way we have become consumer mad, children playing on gadgets rather than socializing with friends, how we could be sitting next to loved ones whilst continuously on our phones etc. Its almost like some greater being is saying " here you go, this is what you wanted, now you can only use technology to contact loved ones, no socialising, no physical contact, no consumerism, no waste, play xbox and watch Netflix until your hearts content..."

And now that freedom has been taken from us, we crave the simple things so badly. It's like we are resetting our lives and thought processes.

For what it's worth I'm neither religious or a conspirasit. But I cant help but wonder now.

I know lives are being lost and I dont wish to down play that. But I hope I'm making sense here. It feels like its happening for a greater reason.

Howirresponsible great point a lot of people are overly dramatic and think that there problems are sooo important when there are kids being orphaned by war, and families losing loved ones to cancer etc. Whatever happens in the world through this virus it won’t change the selfish. I read on a thread a while back that a lady had told a friend that she had cancer, her friend’s response was I wish you hadn’t told me you have ruined my day. Think that covers those people with the me first mentality.

I hate to be a doomsayer , but there are many more biological diseases than we are aware of and animal welfare in some countries is appalling. Bats rats mice all spread disease.
7 people died of the plague in 2016.
A bacterial one like Ebola would be a bigger catastrophe.
I just hope China and other countries are told to clean up their act. Easier said than done.

That is a very Ancient thought pattern that no matter how advanced we get, some humans seem to be stuck in. People said the same thing when we had the AIDS epidemic. That God or Mother Nature was punishing humans for

• having casual sex
• over populating the planet

So AIDS came along to stop us having sex with each other. It was fool proof too because if you got pregnant and had HIV any baby born would have AIDS and be dead by age 7 too early to reproduce. At the height of the epidemic 25% of breeding age people had HIV and millions were living with the death sentence that is AIDS.

Of course, medical science developed powerful antiviral drugs and now HIV is no longer a death sentence.

Epidemics are just a fact of life. Even animals suffer and die from epidemics within their own populations and they’ve not “damaged” the planet. They’re innocent if you will. So no, no epidemic is a punishment for any kind of “sin” you can think of.