My God, I would like to return to the subject of
viruses. I have just read David Quammen's book, Zoonosis, and I am actually
baffled by what information he provides the reader on all scientific studies of
zoonosis, the transfer of viruses and bacteria, as we speak from animals to
humans.
There are a number of important phenomena that he
describes, I will only mention a few, I am not going to do a book review here,
of course, I choose what touched me or particularly struck me the most.
The plant, animal and human worlds are carriers of
thousands of bacteria and viruses. And many are innocent or so deadly that they
kill the carrier quickly and thoroughly, preventing a major outbreak, for the
carriers have all died before they can transmit the virus, like Ebola in a
remote African village.
And he describes the disturbance of the natural
balance in nature, so that viruses and bacteria can suddenly show a major outbreak
in the strangest places.
And he mentions the gigantic urge of men to travel and
trade, through which viruses and bacteria can end up in the for them strangest
places on earth (and get unprecedented new opportunities).
And he refers the huge crowds of people in markets and
the trade in dead and live animals (farmed or taken from nature), making the
jump from animals to humans so much easier.
He lists them all as conditions for the next major
virus outbreak.
Quammen also describes how Sars, HIV, Q fever and
dozens of other viruses work, break out on a large scale and are then be fought
by man with all their might. Usually it works.
But we know that we are now in the midst of a Corona
crisis, the end of which is not yet in sight. He actually predicts already this
crisis in 2013, literally he says: (p 196),
If the virus (he's talking about
Sars) had
kindled another big city (he's talking about Hong Kong) - a more
loosely controlled city, full of poor people and without excellent medical
facilities - they probably couldn't have controlled this fire and had the
virus, spreading like a blazing fire, be spread to a much larger part of
mankind (Frenkie: this is
my translation, I couldn’t find the English version on the internet and the
pagenumber refers to the Dutch translation).
This is all just an introduction to my question. For
the most shocking thing I find at the end of his book is his remark that man
can actually be considered the greatest outbreak ever in the history of the
earth, an all-destroying and predominant outbreak of an unparalleled. And by
the way, of course, it fits perfectly with the purpose of his book, says
Quammen kind: “outbreaks are always
rigorously and successfully combinated by mother nature with, among other
things: viruses that quickly and relentlessly nip in the bud such an outbreak (until now among animals)”.
Would You like to comment on that word outbreak that
he uses for mankind so cherished by You?
I do so, my son.
The spiritual world does not use this word for mankind so cherished by
Us. It fully fits indeed the God-made plan for the earth.
But mother nature is also very cherished by Us and We see what mankind
is doing now. And We see the dead end that mankind is walking.
Outbreak is a term that is liked by biologists, who love the animal and
plant world more than mankind. Man who populates the earth and has overcrowded
it for almost two hundred years will cause so much destruction of plant and
animal species and the greatest pollution ever of the whole environment.
You find it shocking to use the word outbreak for the excessively
growing mankind and We don't find the term very loving.
Having said this, whatever we call it, it will be so. Because in the end
it is not about what things are called but what is actually happening. And
David Quammen describes the total vulnerability of mankind, the enormous risk
of devastating virus outbreaks and the crisis that has barely begun for mankind.
God will receive in love all men who will leave the earth en masse
prematurely and mother nature will use the almost complete destruction of her
Body for a new explosion of life and variety of species. And then God and mankind
and mother nature will contribute to a perfect harmony between mankind and
nature. That's how it will go.
David Quammen is blessed for his insights.
My blessings to you
all
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