Is this nature's way of restarting the clock?

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Does anyone think that a pandemic like COVID-19 is nature's way of restarting the clock? Huge numbers of medically infirm people dying, leaving a large proportion of healthy humans etc. The remainder hugely grateful for having got through it and with maybe a new appreciation on life.

No. Don't be so stupid. Nature isn't sentient and doesn't have a "plan". This is just a virus.

No.

No.

Nature doesn't have a 'plan'

I know rationally it’s not, but a small part of me does wonder!

No. It’s not Ebola. In terms of the whole population there is very little re-setting. Even if the estimated 20,000 people die in the U.K., we have a population of 66 million. It’s not really at resetting the clock level!

No, this is just what happens sometimes. Pandemics have occured throughout human history, we're just unlucky to be living through one in an age of huge amounts of international travel which has spread it globally.

I'd like to think people will have a new appreciation for life but in reality as soon as we can the majority will booking flights left right and centre. Venice will be a polluted place with no wildlife and the environment will get a kicking by humans.

I dont think it is at all. It's just a non discrimate virus. But I did say to a friend it feels like Mother Nature saying "This is your last chance idiots, dont fuck this up again"

No. And it's dangerous to categorise people into 'infirm' and 'healthy'. The former category will end up including everyone.

Rationally of course not I agree but there's going to be a huge mindset change when this comes to an end (if it even does!)

No it's the result of slack laws in china that allow people to eat live, wild animals and then passing it on to the rest of the world.

Did you know that even if 80 million people die from this, there will still be the same worldwide population as there was a year ago? So hardly restarting from scratch!

1. Don't be vile. Even those with vulnerabilities deserve to live.
2. "Nature" isn't a single sentient thing and cannot plan.
3. Even if the outcome is worse than expected in most worst case scenarios, not enough people will die to make a huge impact on world population levels.

Yes, I kinda do. I think that natural disasters and pandemics could be nature’s way of balancing out the population.

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I don't think it will bring any kind of change other than children growing up knowing how to wash their hands properly and coughing/sneezing into the crook of their elbow.

Once it's over people will very quickly go back to how they were before.

No, nature doesn’t have a plan. This is just a virus spreading from one species to the next.

20,000 dead in this country is the best case estimate I think

I do think nature fights back, not in the sense of a sentient being, but there is a reaction to what humans do - not only this but also the floods and the bush fires.

Will people learn? Nope.

Sometimes order can be made from chaos and other times, you get COVID-19.

No.

I do though like to think that if "nature" was a sentient being capable of performing deliberate actions and it were looking for a group of people to smite, it would start with those who go around spouting half baked sub par proto eugenicist bullshit and try to cover it up with witless #livelaughlove phraseology.

No. I do think that we try to find meaning in random events though, which is why it might seem that this is a ‘deliberate’ event. Nature has no plan though, other than for life to continue on however it can. In this case that life is the virus.

I think it's quite insensitive thinking the people that have died are somehow "disposable". What about the poor 13 year old boy with his whole life ahead of him, or the relatively young nurses that died this week? I know 2 people that have died, 1 in their 40s, 1 in their 50s, both had minor health problems but could easily have lived another 20 or 30 years.
The one benefit is the change to the environment, pollution levels down, the ozone being repaired etc but people dying having caused that, people stopping flying, cutting down all counties and drastically reducing industry has.

Having = haven't