Is COVID-19 Nature's Curse? Patient Zero ID'd? Some Bright Sides
By: Michael D Tobin
March 28, 2020 9PM Pacific Time
I actually did a DuckDuckGo websearch on Psalm 91, and it's currently the #1 chapter that pops down after the word, Psalm is typed. I found this:
What is Psalm 91 all about? What are things that we can learn from it for today?
Psalm 91 appears to be a psalm in the setting of warfare with threats of an imminent battle that is about to, has or is currently taking place between solders that may be facing impossible odds. If the face of such a harsh reality as this, God is placed in the position of being the protecting parent of His young as their fortress, shield, and protector. Psalm 91: Commentary, Bible Study and Summary by JACK WELLMAN
Psalm 91:1-3 God the Deliverer
“He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the Lord, My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust. For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence.”
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The pestilence in play is COVID-19. We've all heard of it by now. I've heard it called, Xi's Disease, Kung Flu, the China Virus, the Wuhan Virus, and another form of the group of viruses called, Carona. It was recently officially named, COVID-19, an acronym for Corona, virus, and Disease. And the 19 represents the year in the 21st century, that it was discovered. As mundane as it may seem, here are the statistics:
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We can thank Donald Trump and the whole Western World for leading the first modern attempt to do something all mankind has joked about for thousands of years; the proverbial, cure the common cold. In this case, it is to treat one virus as if it is a terrorist organization. This is literally the most brilliant thing I have ever seen in my whole life and possibly anyone who is alive, with exception of WW2 as a debatable event to be considered the most brilliant event ever, in defeated a genuine evil force. Donald Trump was the first in the world to ban travel after only 10 days of our official notification of the existence of this particular virus. The world followed. Further to the center, California is the first U.S. State to issue a state-wide ordinance to heed a set of protocol toward slowing the spread if COVID-19 from person-to-person. And New York followed the very next day with theirs. We beat the nation to the draw. And Donald Trump beat the world to the draw. And everything thus far that has followed, has followed and it is now world history. Every year in every region of the world since flu's and colds were in existence, mankind has literally been like sheep led to the slaughter on schedule. This is what it looks like to battle just one virus. If we are going to pray 2 Chronicles 7:14 and actually believe it, then this is what it looks like to do what God teaches us through His wisdom of real science. Every year 650,000 humans die of the flu. And we do nothing to kill it. If we expect God to do an abra kadabra and eradicate an annual epidemic, then we are fooling ourselves. If we can thank God for skillful doctors, then we can also thank God for skillful scientists and chemists and all who develop cures for sickness. Our bones don't put themselves back together when they are broken. It would be ludicrous to expect God to put a bone back together instead of having someone who learned about bones in order to make it happen for us. But instead of standing still until being literally led to death without a struggle every single year, this is what people do who don't go down without a fight. If part of the solution is self-isolation, quarantine or whatever you want to call it, then self isolation it is. It isn't communism. It isn't socialism. It isn't politics. It isn't conspiracy. It is plain sensibility and resolve, to defeat something that is able to be defeated.
On that I have 3 things: 1. Scientific Journal Of Nature concludes that COVID-19 naturally evolved from an earlier natural virus, SARS-CoV (SARS)
2. "Patient Zero of COVID-19 may have actually been discovered.
3. What are some bright sides of times of incarceration, loneliness, persecution, and especially pestilence? (Which is what this and other diseases are.)
1. Scientists say the lack of a COVID-19 conspiracy means we may be in more trouble than we think. Study 'Clearly Shows' Novel Coronavirus Was Not Made By Human Beings By Andrew Magnotta @710WOR Mar 27, 2020
So how is being a natural-made virus worse than a man-made virus? From the article
Results of a study about the origin of the novel coronavirus shows the virus was created by Mother Nature, not people. Popular conspiracy theories suggests that the pandemic-causing SARS-CoV-2 virus was engineered in a lab for a biological attack on the United States.
But a study of the virus's genome published in the scientific journal of Nature Medicine finds otherwise.
"Our analyses clearly show that SARS-CoV-2 is not a laboratory construct or a purposefully manipulated virus," the study says.
As its scientific name would suggest, the new coronavirus is a relative of another pandemic-inducing germ, SARS-CoV, or as you probably know it SARS. ...
While the climbing global death toll and universal economic consequences from the pandemic provide compelling circumstantial evidence that the virus was not the work of an adversarial regime, an analysis of the virus' makeup supports those facts.
When the study was submitted on March 11, there were 121,564 confirmed cases of SARS-CoV-2 and 4,373 deaths in 110 countries.
By March 27, there were 552,943 confirmed cases of the virus and 25,045 deaths in 199 countries.
According to the study, the virus evolved naturally in animals — likely bats — before mutating again last fall and optimizing to infect human cells.
It concludes that the virus evolving naturally actually makes it more of a threat to human kind than a human-made virus.
If lethal diseases like COVID-19 can develop secretly in animal species for generations before infecting humans, "then there is the risk of future re-emergence events."
The "ongoing surveillance of pneumonia in humans and other animals is clearly of utmost importance" to preventing the next pandemic, it says.
3. And HOW have people from Biblical times and into the 21st Century made the best out of pestilence, prison and persecution when it comes to writing?
"BEST MASTERPIECES: From Biblical Incarceration To COVID-19 " I was reading how Paul the Apostle wrote his best writings while locked up. Also, So you’re Marco Polo, and you’ve just spent 15 years traveling a world few people have seen. Upon your return to Italy in the late 13th century, you discover that there’s a war on between Venice and Genoa. You’re captured and tossed in jail simply because you’re a prominent Venetian. What do you do? You tell your story to your cellmate, who happens to be a writer, and who jots everything down in French and later publishes it. Debate rages as to how much imagination Polo added to his travels, but his stories remain an invaluable glimpse into a world erased by time. ( https://www.barnesandnoble.com/…/10-books-that-were-writte…/ ) I actually read that book in 6th grade! "Travels of Marco Polo." And then as mentioned above, The prison epistles—Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, and Philemon—are so named because they were written by the apostle Paul during one of his incarcerations. It is generally accepted that Paul wrote the prison epistles during his first Roman imprisonment. The exact dates he wrote each of the prison epistles is unknown, but the two-year period he spent under house arrest in Rome has been narrowed down to the years AD 60–62. Paul’s imprisonment in Rome is verified by the book of Acts, where we find references to his being guarded by soldiers (Acts 28:16), being permitted to receive visitors (Acts 28:30), and having opportunities to share the gospel (Acts 28:31). These details, along with Paul’s mention of being with “those who belong to Caesar’s household” (Philippians 4:22), support the view that Paul wrote the prison epistles from Rome. Paul’s Roman incarceration produced three great letters to the churches of Ephesus, Colosse, and Philippi, as well as a personal letter to his friend Philemon.
( https://www.gotquestions.org/prison-epistles.html ) Then there's a modern public figure today who I have spoken with personally over the phone and through email a few times beginning around 1990 (before email). His name is, Randall Terry, founder and first President of Operation Rescue. I have still yet to meet him in person, but I consider him a friend. Look him up. He wrote several books and I have all of them as he actually mailed them to me a few years ago. At least one of them was when he was in jail, ( Why Does A Nice Guy Like Me... Keep Getting Thrown In Jail?: How theological escapism and cultural retreatism in the Church have led to America's demise. (1993) ,) falsely imprisoned by the Wichita police illegally using the Rico Act as a mechanism to imprison him for peacefully protesting abortion facilities during the Wichita abortion protests during Bill Clinton's first term in the early 1990's. He was later released and his criminal record cleared. And finally, I even wrote a book when I was suddenly handed a bunch of time to gather all my most pertinent writings and ideas I have stored up in my memory over a period of 26 years. My time was from losing my job of seven years due to my employer losing a contract, and I was forced to be on unemployment for 6 months. I wrote, "Making America Righteous-Again: From Bitterness To A Delight." During my time unemployed, I searched high and low for several months for employment, but I also had the time to compile my book on kindle's Amazon website and put together my book into e-form. And it was released on the very first day of 2016! And from then on I had begun my many temporary and part time jobs up until just a year ago, finally becoming permanent full time in a job I currently have, machine operation for a top tier, cutting edge Italian company making all various kinds of the best salami you'll ever eat. But back to books, while writing, the thought occurred to me to make an acronym for my book title so it won't be a total pun on now, President Trump's first campaign motto. So I took the letters, M, A, R, and A from the beginning of the first four words in the book title, "Making America Righteous-Again," to form the acronym, M.A.R.A. . The acronym forms the female name, or a word, meaning "bitterness", with Hebrew origins. A lake in the wilderness from the book of Exodus was named Mara, because it was a bitter water. But God told Moses to throw a stick in the water. So Moses had thrown a stick in the water and the water became sweet! In the book of Ruth, Naomi told the people of Bethlehem, when they recognized who she was, to no longer call her Naomi, but to call her Mara, because God has dealt bitterly with her. But of course Naomi kept her name, which means beautiful, or my delight. That, of course, is how we must be personally, and as a nation. We need to change from bitterness to sweet-again! From bitterness, to a delight-again! So there are literally hundreds if not thousands, of extremely classic and well-known works that so many writers, inventors, adventurers and all forms of public figures throughout the ages, written in times of incarceration, loneliness, famine, persecution; you name it. And finally, right now, as I write, the latest two surprises of public celebrities who have released a major work, and who is working on his next release, are Singer songwriter, Jackson Brown, (he is producing some new music because he has a very mild case of COVID-19, https://nypost.com/…/jackson-browne-rock-and-roll-hall-of…/… ) he just learned this week, and he says he has plenty of time now because of California's and the U.S.'s shelter-in-place regulations due to the attempt to "flatten the curve!" To bring down the number of COVID-19 cases by not mingling in public. And now, today's news is that long-time singer/songwriter Bob Dylan just release a song a couple seconds shy of 17 minutes at the stroke of midnight Wednesday morning, March 25, 2020! The song is titled, "Murder Most Foul:" A song about the murder of President John F Kennedy. (Official Audio) https://variety.com/…/bob-dylan-releases-17-minute-song-jf…/ And so I will just leave you at that. And conclude that even now, due to a common cold, my boss actually told me to take Thursday and Friday off and the weekend just to play it safe! WOW! Who's boss ever said that!? So I actually have had three days now, in home isolation that seems forever, to ponder a whole vast array of ideas to podcast and or write about, which has been very rare these past couple years of going from job-to-job paying my bills and LIVING!, because I'm doing my due diligence to heed and honor the attempt for all to stay home. There's no way for this not to work if everyone does their best to do so. But that's another story. And if you still are interested in how others have written their greatest or great works during times of difficulty, just do a web search and you can find much more. But until then, I hope you had a good read or listen, just now, through my podcast or blog.
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