Corona Virus and the Defeated Human
Race.
Today,
the world is becoming a cemetery. For the first time since the Roman Empire
begun the building of St. Peter’s Basiliaca on April 18, 1506 and ended in 1626,
masses were not held in that world largest church. This is where the pope who
lives at the Vatican often says masses. What a colossal defeat? Elsewhere, for
the first time in the history of Islam, no prayer was held at Masjid Al Haram
& Masjid An Nabwi in Mecca. Since Prophet Muhammed (PBUH) introduced Islam
almost 1400 years ago, nothing near to this is heard. For the first time in
human history, the two most powerful world’s religions with “cat-eat-dog”
manifestations which seem to have occupied human sub-consciousness beyond
humanity itself is bizarrely and serially cheated.
Astonishingly, for the first time in human
history, the arrogant world super powers with ballistic missiles, drones of
death, nuclear, atomic and electromagnetic (E-Bombs) weapons of mass
destruction, extra-ordinary space technology with components of super science
ideas have lost out in darkness as death scrawls in their territories. Somewhere in the west,
the world was awash with the sympathetic photos of
“Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, a grey-haired man, tears running down
his face as he stands in front of a microphone. He stated and I quote; “Pray
for Italy,” ‘We have lost control; we have killed the epidemic physically and
mentally. Can’t understand what more we can do, all solutions are exhausted on
ground. Our only hope remains up in the Sky, God rescue your people.” For the first time in human history, sport
activities are suspended across the globe, For instance, in football, UEFA have
announced the suspension of Champions League and Europa due to the corona Virus outbreak. No more EPL,
Laliga, Seria A etc. Nobody now thinks and discusses Messi and Ronaldo.
Somewhere in the USA, rather than
displaying their technological wizardry in the face of Corona Virus
intimidation, The Pentagon is painfully ordering 100,000 body bags as experts
predict the Corona Virus will
claim the lives of more than 200,000 Americans. New deaths in the US rose
by 1,047 to 5,139 by the end of Wednesday and new infections surged by
26,866 to 216,553 as of 1st April, 2020. According to DailyMail.com,
the majority of the country is now on a lockdown to slow the spread of Corona Virus.
Hospitals and morgues are overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients and are quickly
running out of space in states including California and
New York. Health officials used forklifts to help lift dead bodies onto a
refrigerated truck outside New York's Brooklyn Hospital Center and hospitals
have been using bed sheets to wrap bodies because they no longer have body
bags.
It is a bitter pain in the Communist’s regime
in China as unconfirmed sources estimated more than five million deaths. Even some
Wuhan residents believe government
officials have not accurately counted the number of deaths from the Corona Virus.
World leaders are furious with China for underreporting its number of cases.
They are indication that China could have downplayed its number of confirmed death
cases of the Corona Virus “by a factor of 15 to 40 times.” If Corona Virus
truly started in December of 2019 in Wuhan as claimed, it is only God that
knows the lies China is telling the World about her death tolls.
As the World grapples with Corona Virus
in deep pains, they are interesting lessons to learn which is the hall mark of
this piece. First, we have seen that Human Race is united by common suffering
and death. Death in America and Europe
is also death in Africa and Asia. Suffering and death is no respecter of race
and religion. All manifestations of human discriminations and dichotomies are
made by man’s wickedness. The same disease kills the developed and
underdeveloped, the educated and uneducated, the rich and the poor, leaders and
the lead, those living in modern metropolitans and rural dwellers, Muslims and
Christians. How on earth one explains how death crawls in the
homestead of a country with the strongest army and advanced weaponry in the
world? An army that has devoured and consumed many regimes. An army that can hunts
and eliminates it enemies in a blatant mystery and mastery like the assassination
of Osama Bin Laden and recently Qassem Soleimani. Who
else knows the most Strongest World president that sends chilling death
messages to the perceived enemies of his country will one day begs for body
bags to bury his fellow citizens under his noise? Thus, the message is very
clear; Humans have no knowledge of what happens to them. Humans as mortal
beings are not a determining factor of their destinies no matter how wise and powerful
they are. What can confront the poor can also confront the rich. Human race is
indeed united by the common destiny of suffering and death!
Somewhere in Africa especially our
country Nigeria, corona Virus has brought with it some blatant lessons: Corona
Virus has answered the questions of “Home” Where is the home “for” if not
“of” Africans. Nigerian political elites, where is your home now? Those of you
who corruptly amass primitive wealth, traveled to eat with your families in
America and Europe and only come to defecate in Nigeria, where is your home
now? Where are you running to? Foreign countries amass massive revenue because
most of Nigerian elites’ children are studying abroad. They know our
universities are poor, the educational system is substandard. They perpetually
underdeveloped our educational system here because they want their children to
study in standard universities abroad to continue with the elites cycle. But where are those children running to now? Is very funny that the doctors you refused to
train and the hospitals you refused to build to standard cheaply hoping or
depending on hospitals abroad will treat you today like any common Nigerian.
You can’t run out because those countries are treating their citizens. With
your massive stolen wealth, you are still a second class citizen in those
countries. Where is your home now? Our monies are used to build factories in
China, America and Europe. Those CEOs and their African Agents are on the run
now. How on earth can you systematically destroy your house to go and build
another person’s compound? Who cares for you more than your country? Nobody is
celebrating abroad returnees now. Rather, they a put to critical scrutiny.
Metropolitan returnees are welcomed with scorn in urban and rural settlements.
That is the irony of life. No particular way of human life is perpetually
advantaged.
Is nearly rationally impossible to believe Corona Virus can meander its
way through the security detail of the Aso Rock Villa and become an uninvited
guest at the seat of power. But it happened. Senators, House Members, governors
and the common man are but the target of a common enemy. The enemy is common to everybody irrespective of class and
status. The enemy is bringing sickness and death to everybody. Every one of us
is isolating. Corona Virus has brought a compulsory prison term for both the
poor and the rich. Irrespective of your security detail and apparatus, it is
wise to judge yourself, pronounced your prison sentence and executes it in good
faith or else Corona will sweep out your family and friends.
It is important we must learn our
lessons. Human life is vanity upon vanity. Humans are all weaklings to whatever
power that created them. The enemy of the entire human race is suffering and
death. Death is thus, the unifying factor of all human races and this is the
meeting point. Why should privilege humans choice themselves to put others to
pains, hunger and starvation amidst abundances? Can we have a change of World
view in the aftermath of the Corona Virus pandemic? This is a question to
answer.
Gbaa Nguuma
Writer and social critic.
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