Right now, Covid-19 is turning the world up-side-down. Our social systems … education systems … industries … economies … everything has been shut down. Healthcare is straining. And we’re scrambling for answers to how to deal with this thing.
Many don’t know that we actually ran into Covid’s brother just less than 20 years ago, and it showed us the Covid family playbook. Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome — or SARS — would have done tremendous damage if it didn’t burn itself out so quickly. But Covid-19 is now coming out with the exact same playbook and weaponry. And humanity put that information in a box in the attic and forgot about it!
We’ll see that medical scientists found the cave where SARS and its brothers came from … living in fruit bats until they can springboard onto humans … and also learned that they’re evolving there … preparing new disguises and a couple other offensive strategies. And those scientists warned us, two years ago, that SARS Round #2 was getting ready.
And now we have Covid-19!
We’ll also talk about how humans are helping Covid-19. Through science denial, and rejection of calls from authorities to simply wear face-masks and physically distance, socially isolate, submit to contact-tracing, all in the name of privacy and personal freedoms. We’ll talk about how this naturally leads to the next level of lunacy: conspiracy theories (that Covid-19 is a Franken-bug created in a government lab, or that doctors are using ventilators to kill people) and xenophobia (blaming people of other races, nationalities, or demographic groups).
And we’ll look at the faith spin on this. We’ll learn that, contrary to what people of various faiths might want to believe, one large statistical study of 44,000 Covid-related deaths found atheists are least likely to die of Covid! And that this may be a result of people prioritizing religious meetings/practices over government policies and personal safety, or putting too much faith in claiming “promises.”
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