One of the biggest questions posed to us in 2020 is: Why did the pandemic (“Chinese Communist virus”/Wuhan pneumonia) break out? The answer to this question will determine our destiny and the future of the world.
At one time, mankind’s search for its own destiny reached a climax at the “millennium” (whether you believe in it or not, the idea of the “Last Judgment” is still deeply rooted in the human mind); and the popularity of the movie “2012” made the Mayan prophecy widely spread and the “end of the world/rebirth of mankind” provoked people’s heartstrings; but as the days passed, everything returned to calm.
Although, in 2003, the Sasanian wave, bird flu, Ebola virus, etc. followed; in 2004, the South East Asia tsunami, hundreds of thousands of instantaneous death; in 2011, The Japanese earthquake and triggered the nuclear power plant leakage; in 2008, the financial turmoil swept the world, etc., also had a frightening, but life soon returned to normal, seemingly a “quiet time”.
What caught us off guard was the sudden outbreak of the pandemic at the end of 2019, which spread rapidly from China to the world and still grips the world today. The severity of the epidemic, statistically speaking, exceeds that of Sars in 2003 by a thousand times; and the prolongation and normalization of the epidemic should not be comparable to the “1918 Spanish flu pandemic” event. This, the intensity of the damage, the difficulty of prevention and control, the impact of the broad in human history are rare.
The pandemic directly changed people’s way of life, with masks, social distance, quarantine, and city closures being inseparable from people ever since.
The pandemic hit the global economy so hard that there was a “shutdown” and countries were forced to impose quarantines and blockades, and economic activity shrank sharply and recovery has been sluggish. The people of the world witnessed several “firsts in history”: four meltdowns in 10 days on March 9, March 12, March 16 and March 18; the first “negative oil price”, where the cost of oil transportation and storage exceeded the value of the oil itself. “The postponement of the Tokyo Olympics (the first time in the 120-year history of the modern Olympics that the games were not held on time for reasons other than war), and so on. It is recognized that “the world is experiencing the biggest recession since World War II”, and some believe it has surpassed the “Great Depression” of 1929-1933. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) released the World Economic Outlook report in October, predicting that the global economic growth rate will be -4.4% in 2020.
However, the “Great Recession” has brought an unexpected piece of good news: better air quality and a rapid reduction in pollution and emissions. For example, an analysis commissioned by climate website CarbonBrief found that China’s energy use and emissions dropped by a whopping 25% in a two-week period. A similar situation has occurred in Italy, New York and other countries or regions. Even a 1,600-year-old church monument sunken in a lake in Turkey has seen the light of day because of reduced water pollution.
As early as 1972, the Club of Rome launched its famous report, “The Limits to Growth,” stating: “If the existing trends in world population, industrialization, pollution, food production and resource depletion do not change, the limits of our planet’s growth will be reached sometime in the next 100 years. The most likely outcome will be a sudden and unstoppable decline in population and industrial output.”
Despite the long-standing controversy over Limits to Growth, Australian scientists have collected actual data for the nearly 40 years since the book was published and compared it to the book’s predictions, showing that global data have largely followed the path of the book’s predictions, meaning that humanity is “letting itself go”.
The economic “pause” in the context of the pandemic should prompt people to reflect: Is economic growth really the only way to improve the quality of human life? In fact, more and more economists are supporting “de-growth”, “post-growth” and “steady-state economics”. These scholars argue that when the focus of social development shifts from pure economic growth, economies will inevitably experience periods of negative growth and turbulence, but better resource allocation and more equitable distribution of wealth will mean a general improvement in the quality of life for all. Perhaps a “de-growth” development model is the only way forward for humanity.
If we continue to “let things go” and continue with the current economic development model, what awaits us at the end of this road?
It is true that the discovery and development of new resources through scientific and technological progress can alleviate the shortage of resources and energy crisis to a certain extent, but it will not solve the problem at root. In essence, natural resources refer to all kinds of naturally existing natural objects that can be used by human beings, not man-made objects, and the number of which exists on the earth is certain and limited, so the number of natural resources that can be developed and used by human beings is also certain and limited. Moreover, we should also look at the limits of natural resources in an integrated manner, i.e., we should not only see the material limits, but also the social and management limits.
Therefore, for human beings today, “survival or destruction, that is the question”. In order to survive, human beings must change themselves, that is, change the “infinite nature of human needs”. We know that to indulge in the “infinity of human needs” is to destroy mankind. Human beings have both divine and demonic natures; we must strengthen our divine nature and suppress our demonic nature in order not to be consumed by our desires. It is because of the retention of divinity that human morality has its foundation, and it is man’s righteous faith in God that enables human society to maintain a certain level of morality and human beings to continue to this day. Otherwise, mankind would have gone to the point of no return.
But in the past 200 years, the indulgence of human desires and the deviation from righteous faith have given atheism an opportunity to take advantage of it, so that the international communist movement constructed by Marx could rise up in response to the robbery and plague the world for more than 100 years, full of war, famine, pestilence and death wherever it went.
Marx’s high-profile proclamation of “comprehensive human development” and the building of “heaven on earth”, and the communist regime’s repeated emphasis on economic development (although it could not develop the economy, and what it did develop was only a deformed economy, such as today’s China), were in essence to stimulate human desires, to stimulate human materialistic desires, to let the “infinite nature of human needs” completely submerge human beings, to destroy the divinity of human beings, and to let the evil communist spirits become the masters of human beings, and it almost succeeded (for details, see the book “The Devil is ruling our world” by the editorial board of the Nine Reviews).
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Chinese Communist Party, as the most important carrier of the evil communist spirits on earth, pretended to be “reforming and opening up” on the one hand, but on the other hand, it did all kinds of evil, “blocking the road to heaven and opening the door to hell”; in particular, it persecuted Falun Gong, even harvesting the organs of Falun Gong practitioners alive for profit. In particular, the persecution of Falun Gong, even the live harvesting of organs from Falun Gong practitioners for profit, is an “unprecedented evil on this planet” that can operate industrially and spread lies all over the world. At the same time, the CCP is using its economic power as the second largest economy in the world to seduce and harm the world, just like a big whore.
Thus, it is easy to understand why this pandemic broke out in China in the first place, and why it is called the “CCP virus”.
Of course, we can also use this pandemic as a wake-up call to wake up, save ourselves and take immediate action. After all, when it comes to the overall fate of mankind, no sane person is willing to be destroyed.
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