Covid-19 Pandemic by New Corona Virus: What Possible Errors We Did for it to Happen?

Covid-19 pandemic threat caused by the New Corona Virus has already caused a panic response from almost all governmental authorities. The governments of almost all countries have forced economic shut downs and stay@home orders for weeks now. Never in our life we have seen such a situation in which the human activities have come to a stand still like this for weeks!

We the people of this earth are either facing sickness and death by the virus or untold miseries caused by new rules ordered by the governmental authorities globally. Our worries keep increasing because we are not sure of what's going to happen next!

Many are also worrying and thinking about the possible causes of such a thing to happen now. I too keep thinking. I have come across some reasons for this to happen. It is based on my logical reasoning. 

The inputs for deducing these are based on some information that I gained in the past from my involvement in the development of micro-organisms for some difficult industrial use. Besides, some knowledge pieces I gained from the Urantia Book-the great book about which I had written in several of my blog articles in this site- have also provided valuable clues.

I very well know that in the present world order, independent individual opinions do not get much attention or value. 

Yet I dare to write and publish this blog article in this blog site 'for whomsoever it might be of interest or concern'!

The following are what I have to say in this.

The Novel Corona Virus with its adversary features has come into existence because some existing corona viruses have undergone some rapid haphazard environmental changes or mutations due to certain errors that we humans have done in the recent past knowingly or unknowingly!

Micro-organisms are the first evolutionary step in the development of life on earth. According to the Urantia Book, it is not an accidental happening, but something purposefully done by the invisible agencies of God, the source of life and energy in the universe. 

The method of creation of micro cells intermediary between living and non-living matter, such as the viruses and the single plant cells such as bacteria, is a long process adopted for gradual controlled evolutionary progress towards the creation of higher material living beings such as plants, animals and later humans by certain agencies of the Universal Creator. 

In other words, creation is not a magical process, but a complex evolutionary process appropriately controlled by several invisible agencies of God. 

The ultimate aim of this controlled evolution is for the creation of intelligent life, in any evolutionary planet anywhere in the universe, similar to  human beings of earth. Living beings similar to humans are special material creatures because they possess certain mind abilities to know the invisible presence of  God that enable them to get transformed to unique universe personalities with endless life after their material life ends. All humans are potentially capable of acquiring endless living in the universe. To achieve that humans have to follow divine rules of the universe. 

Divine agencies supervising controlled evolutionary progress in a material world like earth stop their periodic interventions the moment a few human beings with mind power to realize the invisible presence of  God come into existence.

All living forms made of simple or complex material cells, are bound to undergo the  birth and death processes of evolutionary development. Once a living specie comes in to existence, its further material progress happens more or less independently without the help of the divine agencies. So all material species once created by controlled evolution retain their features for several generations without much change. However, they do undergo life adaptations or permanent extinction depending on the environment. Life adaptations take place due to genetic permutations and combinations that come into effect through certain inbuilt biologic reproductive mechanisms. Such changes in higher animals such as humans happen over centuries because their life span is in the order of decades while it is relatively short for lower end micro-organisms such as viruses and bacteria that have life spans of only days. 

Thus it is possible for viruses and bacteria to get modified with marked differences in their behavior in a short time when their living environment changes either naturally or artificially in laboratories. These micro organisms, just as plants and animals, are all useful for sustenance of life on earth or any such planet. However, all species including humans can cause harm either to themselves or to others in certain conditions. That's how evolutionary material life in several material worlds of the universe are planned. At the same time the highest form of material life, the humans are provided with intelligence and wisdom to tackle all adverse situations, provided they use their God-given abilities judiciously and patiently. Unfortunately, most people on earth are either lazy or too impatient to use their intelligence properly. 

Humans can chose any decisions in their life because they are vested with free will. That is the ability to chose any path, right or wrong. The divine mandate is that human free will mind is not to be interfered and every individual make decisions in life according to their own sweet will. They face adverse consequences or benefits accordingly. Most of us therefore make errors in life deviating from the right path either individually or collectively. Since we are social beings, the consequences of our erroneous decisions either in the past or present affect not only the erring ones but also others around.

Humans being the highly intelligent material beings on our world, undoubtedly are provided with the power of making this world the best as any heavenly worlds in the universe or as  poorly managed dwelling places with all kinds of problems affecting every one. In a way, humans keep getting too many opportunities to know good and bad, by life experiences with ample opportunities for enhancing wisdom. Trials and tribulations keep transforming many human beings to enhance their capabilities while many others may feel defeated and hopeless. The most important thing that wise humans indirectly learn in this process of material life is about the existence of God, the Universal Source of everything in the universe and the development of faith in the plans and providence of God. Unfortunately, several not so wise humans do reject the concept of God due to the same life challenges on earth!

I remember a first time project that I had been entrusted a couple of decades ago in the largest industrial organization of India at that time- the Bhilai Steel Plant owned by Steel Authority of India- where I worked as a chemical engineer. It was to find out a way to develop a suitable process plant for effectively treating and reusing effluent water coming out from its coal processing plants. At that time this waste water, known in the integrated iron and steel industry of the world as the phenolic waste water, was a very difficult and poisonous waste water having no known method for effective treatment. For steel industry technologists world over,  managing this waste water and mitigating the environmental hazards it posed was a big challenge.

When I was entrusted this task, I hardly knew any method to solve this problem. But I had known some technical literature about the possible use of micro-organisms such as bacteria in laboratory scales elsewhere where people had undertaken experiments to transform normally available bacteria in to special hardcore bacteria that can use even the worst kind of chemicals as its food for metabolism. In other words, phenolic chemical compounds that are used to kill bacteria can be used as a nutrient to bacterial species to grow and survive, provided we could develop such kind of bacteria from normal bacteria by a process called bacterial culture development. It is a method by which normal bacteria are exposed in a step by step manner to adverse environments thereby developing a generation of bacteria that can thrive on such an environment. This takes many generations of bacteria but its not a big time frame for us, humans. 

I used this technique in setting up a large Phenolic Effluent Treatment Plant in Bhilai Steel Plant some time in 1992 that happened to be the first such plant in the world to successfully employ cultured bacteria for that purpose in integrated steel plants.

While that plant continued in operation those managing it learnt about adverse mutation problems of micro organisms and the difficulties it posed to achieve the end results favorably. Sometimes, improper management of the bacteriological processes caused the processes going adverse and out of controls.

If we look around, it is not difficult to understand this. It happens everywhere, not only with micro-organisms but also with all living organisms. When children are reared in haphazard manner, they turn out to be difficult to manage individuals posing threat to the society. Even a good breed of puppy when reared on the street in an adverse environment can lead to the development of a street dog having bad nature.

Humans being entrusted with the control and management of the visible material realm of this world by our invisible divine masters, we need to do all our acts in a responsible manner while enjoying our independence and freedom of choices. If we make mistakes, we have to face the consequences. Often we learn to overcome the consequences quickly, some times we appear helpless for some longer period of time.

You may now understand what I stated in the beginning. The new corona virus causing Covid-19 is our own creation. It may be accidental or it may be without our knowledge. But some of our errors in our acts in the past either individually or collectively have caused some haphazard environmental changes to some of the existing viruses that created the new corona virus with changed behavior. And now that virus has developed a method that it can get in and survive in human bodies in a peculiar manner and even ruin our physical bodies for some time till we find a way to tackle it.

What are the possible errors that we as a collective has done for such a virus to develop? What are those things that humans have done in the near past that caused previously known viruses that caused manageable diseases to new mutational varieties having such dreadful properties that is threatening human life on this planet?

In my opinion, humans in their ambition and eagerness for a fast developing world has overlooked certain aspects that gave disease causing micro-organisms (pathogens including bacteria, viruses, etc). Our priorities have been faster economic growth and high profit making businesses.

In our enthusiasm for faster development, we adopted and promoted international trade and travel. It encouraged people with differing habits and cultures to meet and intermingle too frequently. It caused viruses from one individual in one location to change its environment in a haphazard manner too quickly without we even taking note.

We developed our cities without proper thinking. We allowed mega cities to grow uncontrollable manner without even bothering to develop the required essential infrastructure such as safe water supply, safe waste water management systems, adequate solid waste management systems, air pollution control, clean water ways, etc.

We allowed cities to grow exponentially in a concentrated manner with populations more than several millions. We caused our low income city dwellers to live in congested slums and congested small high rise apartments with no adequate space or air circulation. The viruses got ample opportunities to jump from one person to another all living in harsh hygienic conditions causing them to develop harsher qualities of survival.

The Urantia book indicates that cities with more than a million population is not a wise thing to happen. It also indicates that human families to live in small living spaces not a wise thing to happen. It advocates a house for a family to have some free space around it. It also says mingling of differing racial communities to be done cautiously and slowly. Too fast a thing can cause accidents of time! 

It is not very difficult to understand these. Overcrowding anywhere causes problems. Pathogenic micro-organisms that survive on larger organisms can spread and mutate when people live too closely and move too often.

The solution, therefore lies in our economic planning by our governments.

It's time that we discourage mega cities. Concentrations of human settlements without adequate infrastructure should not happen. Each and every human family has a right for some minimum shelter and free land space around it- the more the better. It avoids spread and survival of germs.

We hope to develop vaccines and medicines to destroy new corona virus in the immediate future to alleviate the present pandemic. But that is not the solution. Whether we do it or not, other viruses will develop in the future causing much more severe pandemics.

We need to use our wisdom faculties properly.

Our errors cause problems to every one. It is not very difficult. We should learn to be wise in our acts and deeds.