Covid19 - The chicken is back to roost

 For so long, the world has taken it for granted that bird flu, swine fever and all kinds of diseases would find their homes in Asian countries as a matter of fact. No one would be curious to ask why these were happening and so very often though there were some reports that these happenings were no accidents or natural occurrences. No one even bother to examine why these diseases were happening mostly in China and not in dirty slum countries in Asia or other parts of the world. The main media would be too busy adding fuel to fire that such diseases happening in China or some Asian countries were to be expected.

To the many that still think China is a backward third world country, dirty and polluted, its rivers and streets filled with filth and waste, think again. China in the last few decades has almost eradicated poverty in the country. All the slums and dilapidated buildings of the past were gone. Every city, every farm and industry is new and modern and clean. The remaining isolated corners of poverty were in the rural areas but very few left, and anything but slums. There are still some poor villages but the living condition though spartan is decent, not filthy corners of pollution.

Why then are diseases so frequently found to occur in several parts of China and not in dirty and polluted countries that should be more prone to have them? When Covid19 hit China, after a spate of diseases coming one after another, it was just another one of those things. China is disease prone as the country is poor, dirty, full of slums and polluted rivers etc etc, once true but now a myth, like North Korea is a poor country with people suffering from starvation. The truth would not be told by the western media.

The fact that China could stop the spread of this deadly and highly contagious disease is not just a matter of locking down Wuhan and Hubei Province, or Shanghai and Beijing. It is a reflection of the overall condition of the country and the hygiene level of the cities and environment, the cleanliness of the land and the determination of a govt that would not allow it to happen. The foundation of a well organised and fairly clean environment and a population that is disciplined, educated and can be disciplined, are the basic building blocks that helped in keeping the virus under control, with the help of tough govt measures. When Shanghai and Hong Kong were hit with increasing number of infections, the West were all out to condemn China that tough measures would be futile, unsustainable. Well China has again defeated Covid19 in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing.

Compares to what is happening in the USA and Europe, the living condition and environment in China, particularly the major cities, are quite comparable and many case much better. The success to control the spread of the virus is testament to the ability of China to manage such crisis and also the quality of life and environment that made it possible. What is happening in Europe and the USA is basically a lack of political will to control it, and a very ill disciplined populace that took it for granted that they could get by and live with it without the virus consuming the whole population. It is not so much the general condition and environment of the countries. See what is happening to Taiwan, Australia, Korea and Japan, when they think it was ok to follow the Americans, to relax and be happy.

The other point that is now so glaring is the ease of this virus spreading in supposedly clean and organised cities and environment that such diseases should not be taking root. Obviously the spread of this virus is not associated with primitive and dirty environment or like wet markets in China. If so, the markets of many poorly managed countries would be a hot bed for this virus to spread. On the contrary, the virus should not be spreading like wild fires in the relatively clean environment of USA and Europe.

This begs the question why there were so many diseases spreading in China repeatedly over the last decade or so with China working very hard to suppress and over come them, and did overcome them. Then why the western countries are fumbling all over to stop this virus from spreading and still a few clowns are insisting that this originated from China? The conspiracy theory that many of the diseases were planted in China by the evil ones demands a second look.

In short, it is looking like someone has been throwing stones once too often and when a single stone boomeranged, they were unable to cope with it.  They have had it too easy, lobbing stones into the neighbour's house or setting fire to the neighbour's house thinking that they would be safe. Now the fire they started, once too many times, has started to burn down their own houses.

And when they are busy fighting their own fires, they have no time to start more fires in their neighbour's house. It is time to let the fire burn and make sure it burns strong and bright, to teach the mischief makers not to start any more fire and that it is dangerous to play with fire.

Or is it that this virus just loves clean environment, unpolluted environment like in the USA or Europe? The virus loves to go to church. The virus was bred in clean environment and it is only natural for them to return to where they came from, their natural habitat?

What about the sudden spread of Monkey pox in all the clean and western countries? What story is it telling?