The coronavirus, or COVID-19, is a stern teacher. It does not speak, but its actions speak volumes. Its lessons are painful, intimidating, and overbearing, but they are forcing us to learn what we should have learned long ago were we…
A little while ago, The Guardian interviewed UN’s environment chief, Inger Andersen. According to the paper, Andersen said that nature is sending us a message with the coronavirus pandemic, that humanity was placing too many pressures on the natural world with damaging…
Apprehension and uncertainty over the coronavirus have triggered a situation as contagious and widespread as the pandemic: conspiracy theories. Since the surge of the global disease that has virtually paralyzed the planet, the blame game started between countries while people speculate about…
We are in the midst of a very unique time. Humans are social animals, but in the COVID-19 era, the difference between being healthy or sick could be determined by our physical proximity to others. Thus, social distancing is encouraged…
CBS46 reporters Tim Lister, Sebastian Shukla, and Fanny Bobille wrote that there is “A new kind of global war as countries battle it out for masks and PPE (personal protective equipment).” “The U.S. diverted 200,000 respirator masks destined for Berlin”;…
Before COVID-19 took over the world by storm, the newspapers were very often focused on the spreading global anti-Semitism. The coronavirus put people on survival mode, and when you’re busy saving your life and the lives of your loved ones,…
Due to commenting frequently on the coronavirus outbreak as nature’s response to the egoistic and exploitative way we as a human society had been relating to each other leading up to the pandemic, I was asked by one of my…
There is ample talk about COVID-19 being a punishment from nature for humanity’s mistreatment of it. I respectfully disagree. As I see it, there are no punishments in nature; there are natural laws. Gravity, for example, is a natural law.…
If you are like one out of three people in the world currently under stay-at-home orders, the question of how to make this situation meaningful becomes relevant. The surge of the COVID-19 pandemic is pushing humanity to realize how much…
We have passed the initial shock of the coronavirus pandemic, and now have entered what could be considered its second stage. We now understand that it is here to stay for a while, that it spans the entire globe, and…
If we use the coronavirus period to learn about how it fits into nature’s plan of raising humanity to complete and harmonious connection, and also how it emerged to show us the flaw of our self-centered approaches to each other,…
Unlike pandemics of the past, which affected localities and regions, the coronavirus pandemic is global. It affects everyone in the world. Today, humanity shares a common concern as the virus has spread around the planet, taking no notice of any man-made…