“If someone comes to see me, I have to waste my words in vain. If I leave my house to visit others, I waste their time in vain…Therefore, I have decided to live in complete isolation with a firmly closed door. My solitude shall be my company, and my poverty my wealth. Already a man of fifty, I should be able to maintain this self-imposed discipline.”

He added this verse:

“Only for morning glories
I open my door -
During the daytime I keep it
tightly barred.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/06/self-isolate-mystery-dalek-orders-humans-in-the-age-of-coronavirus

However, if Levant & co. have ‘previous’ then ok, I guess it’s best to be more sceptical, although they’re not saying it was a devilish plot by the Chinese, just inefficiency – plus, of course, calling the Chinese government dictatorial liars (unlike the squeaky-clean Yanks!).

What a stinking cess-pit politics is! Basically, I hate it all.

P.S:
Navojat comments:
But those facts are checkable and I’ve seen mentions of this elsewhere….

Both of you kind of interpreted/read out of my early morning story what you liked to interpre and read. No surprise though.

My essential concern with it was/is more close to the topic: How to walk through that which we name the corona crisis.

And I´m not indulging in any conspirational stuff, neither an esoteric one nor an otherwise one.

Listen pretty much daily to some scientific medical report from one of the virologists I already mentioned (the Berlin one from the Charite). And this is a Q&A about medical as also social and economic stuff – and for me, atrustworthy report – as well as pretty much down-to-earth.

That I was reminded so strongly of Rabiya (Rose) from Australia, whom I met in Pune (1990) is quite something else and belongs – one can say – to the Issue, how to ´Walkabout´ and get into rememberance ofwhat we might have lost – be it common sense, be it by some utter deterioration stuff happening in obscenely rich industrial societies (like ours) and long before such a topic like the corona crisis took place.
And such a ´Walkabout’-theme belongs to the topic given here, in my view..

And in a deeper and broader sense also belonged essentially to the fact that once upon a time an innumerable bunch of very beautiful people made their way to India (or to the East) from their homebases of all kind of geo nooks and corners, urged by a deep thirst to find (not only) words of wisdom. What else came or might be coming out of it as such is in constant change. These journeys were/are not in vain, I´d say.

To interpret where I´ve been coming from this morning it would be worthwhile to know a bit more about how Australian Aboriginees see ´Creation´ and being creative AND human.

It´s amazingly inspiring stuff and sometimes – in times of crises also helpful, just to let some of the world-wide Wisdom come in – a balance and find a balance in times of chaos and turmoil.
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Looking with fresh eyes re all our western arrogance and this ´know-it-all´nscientific, aggressive kind of approaches.

And a Balance – as also Change – in terms of more Humaness in our global togetherness is utterly needed. NOW!
A need of re-discovering ethical standards we truly have lost.

I won´t follow Veet Francesco in his stance here but I can understand where he is coming from.

And I hope that the true-minded as also the fake-friendliness-minded good wishes for a well-being and sanity etc. might evolve to get REAL.

May you all be well. A prayer.
Here- as elsewhere -

Madhu

SS, now I am wondering what did that God do to nonavian dinosaurs/other extincts? Are these new age viruses incarnations of those extincts?!

“I have also been pondering the virus and what is the point of viruses.”

Well, the virus clearly has just as much right to exist and live here as we do, and God will not make any distinction in importance between the virus that is currently causing world chaos and ourselves.

Whether the virus provides food for other microbes somewhere in the food chain, or how it fits into nature’s balance I don’t know.

Madhu, on the basic level of cause-and-effect, this investigation by American Ezra Levant of ‘Rebel News’ (sent to SN by Swami Navojat of Essex, London, the UK & the Czech Republic) is well worth watching.

He provides plenty of evidence that indicates the cause was inadequate security precautions at a Chinese research centre in Wuhan, covered up by a Chinese government concerned about its credibility.

If this explanation is correct (and it does seem plausible) there’s no ‘direct’ “teaching” as such from the pandemic itself, but any lessons would arise from the responses to the conditions we face, from authorities and ourselves.

Conspiracy theorists will be disappointed that the evidence doesn’t appear to point towards a deliberate attempt to infect the country and/or the world. As will those who believe it’s all about Nature/the Earth or God deliberately teaching us a much needed lesson.

https://youtu.be/fUo1w5aSkro