5 Reasons why Covid-19 could save humanity.
By: Henk Muni
Tags: Saving Humanity, Global Warming, Covid 19, Saving Earth, Natural Disaster

Covid-19 pandemic is the first global pandemic to hit most of Earth inhabitants currently living. It infected tens of millions and has killed a couple million. It halted the world economy and filled households the world over with fear as they sat trapped in their homes hiding. It was still able to creep into many homes and took especially our parents and elders from us. So, it caused abrupt glares in my direction when I mentioned the possibility that Covid-19 possibly saved humanity in 2020. Here’s 5 reasons why.

AUTHORITIES WOKE UP. The unobstructed speedy worldwide spread was caused by napping authorities that where often blindsided, for none of them had ever been in such a position in their careers. It was uncharted waters and even with huge efforts and closing of borders and travel restrictions, Covid-19 spread all around the globe. Lucky for humanity was the fact that Covid 19 has a relatively low mortality rate, at around 2.6% based on the most recent statistics from world-o-meter. On writing this, it had killed nearly 1.5 million people according to world-o-meter. Yet the world population is 7.8 billion or 7800 million. Covid 19 has made a limited dent in the total population, but if it was as lethal as say Ebola with a mortality rate of between 25% and 90%- the world would have been practically destroyed. Maybe having this 2020 COVID wake-up call might make the world authorities much more vigilant in the future when some super virus emerges that is not merely droplet spread, but a more lethal aerosol version and has not a mortality rate of 2.6%, but rather an ebolaic level of 90%. MOTHER NATURE ECOBALANCES EARTH — ALWAYS. Covid 19 might be the canary in the mine for humanity. Humans have prolifically spread to occupy most of Earth and is overusing all of the natural resources. Soon Earth will start running out completely. If humans totally occupy earth and overuse and over populate the planet, then mother nature will balance that equation over time. A pandemic had been predicted by many epidemiologists and microbiologist long before 2020. It appeared inevitable. Mother nature ecobalances everything in the end, whether through a pandemic disease or through the alternative of running out of natural resources and ending the civilizations that way. The uncomfortable truth that is so politically incorrect that no-one wants to mention it, is that there are too many people on this planet already. Humans keep multiplying, hoping for a different solution to the elephant in the room problem. We need to wake and stop multiplying to save our existence. If not, some form of a Mother nature natural disaster will probably balance it all and Covid 19 was a warning signal for that. IMMUNITY IS THE ONLY TRUE DEFENCE. Maybe Covid 19 will teach all of humanity that even though we have some limited capabilities to cure disease; our true power lies in our intelligence to be able to prevent disease through vaccinations. Covid 19 a less potent virus than many of those that we already have vaccinations for. Yet it turned our world upside down and a feverish race for a vaccine started. Maybe Covid 19 will convince the critics once and for all that vaccinations is the only way to create a herd immunity and truly prevent disease. THE WORLD WILL DO MORE PRODUCTIVE, LESS -TRAVEL BUSINESS. Covid 19 has forced a technological surge in the audiovisual communication world. This different and more acceptable way of business is much more efficient on time. With less travelling the world is burning less fuel and natural resources and in addition gave us more of the only resource that we cannot save : Time. Less travel, efficient time management, working from home and the freedom to consider living anywhere in world and communicating over the video calls and internet will revolutionize old conformed ways of business and quality of life. Commuting might disappear and world wide collaboration networks and work teams would become an easy and cheap new way of doing business. Humanity maybe needed that bit of fear of a virus to start properly using this planet-saving technology. Covid 19 taught us to work from home, save the planet and love our life at home more. COVID 19 TAUGHT HUMANITY PURPOSE AND HAPPINESS. I would argue that the most important lesson Covid 19 taught us was that we should wake up and realize our purpose in this world. Once we face death, we value life. Fear made humanity realize the value of life, family, friends and community. We learnt to value the small things. We stopped competing in the rat rat and had gratitude for our health. Isolation was not easy for many for there was no more running or hiding from their bubble of close people. Many had to face household realities of unhappiness. Divorce rate will probably go up, for many truly learnt the character of their companions, through actually spending real time with them. However, on the flip-side others truly had time to appreciate the joys of close lovers, partners, companions, friends, family or community and religion. The things that truly mattered to us was brought to our attention by Covid 19. In my opinion humanity needed first to be taught how to appreciate all the joys of daily living before it would strive to preserve it. Maybe Covid 19 will open humanity’s eyes and teach us to be kind to our neighbours, friends and even our enemies for they are human too. Maybe hatred for other humans might disappear in the wake of devastation left by a virus, affecting all countries and races. Maybe Covid 19 will teach humanity the value to stand together against the true threats to our world as we know it. Maybe COVID 19 saved humanity from the inevitable destruction by its own hands.