Flatenning the Curve

I freely admit to being one of 'those' people who believe that (People) are THE major virus by creating more and more of the same. We contaminate on whims and push creatures out of their long established evolutionary niches, while making others extinct. All of this is done without any acknowledgement of their ‘God Given’ right to co-exist on this planet with us.

We process / devour them like so many other 'resources' until they become rare, critically endangered and then disappear like ghosts. It should come as no surprise that we sometimes get too close and they literally spit in our faces and send another corona virus across the species divide, tit for tat. What we tend to forget is that we are far from perfection and the world doesn't need us. If we disappear, we will be replaced by something else, just like the dinosaurs.

Meanwhile, we automatically claim the 'Human' right through Neoliberal Globalism to use everything like there is no tomorrow which coincidentally, is precisely what a virus does. If anyone finds that observation insulting then take a look at the trajectory of the Covid-19 Infection Graph overlaid against the Graph of Human Population Growth and then try to tell one from the other.

Destiny features in much of my work, nearly always with a capital 'D' and It is not as fickle as evolution, possibly because it is driven by something with a higher purpose. It has occurred to me that Destiny probably predates evolution and has lately, in the scheme of things, shared the 'Power to Create' with us. This 'gift' can be shared with 'someone' / 'something' else if we waste it because Destiny tends to see the full picture.

This facility makes us more than any mere virus but only if we accept the responsibility that comes with it. Not everyone will survive the Covid-19 waves and we mourn those who leave us too early, especially those we couldn't be with when we parted ways to continue our separate journeys. But Humanity must rise to the challenge of creating a better tomorrow out of the selfish greed that caused this and so many other pandemics.

This will be a world where far fewer of us are left behind. It's as simple as that and if we can do it, we will have gone some way to being worthy of our 'Humanity' label. Then Destiny may see fit to offer yet another gift until we too, can make anything possible.