2020 Forecasting Disaster

Last, December 2019 and January 2020, all newspapers, magazines, radio/TV stations, philosophers, thinkers, made their usual yearly guesses, forecasts analysis together with fortune tellers, card/tarot readers, crystal/skies gazers, sorcerers, soothsayers, clairvoyants, palm readers and others. All missed the impact of COVID-19 which as early as September 2019 already entered world news. Despite unbelievable advances in science and technology, nobody really knows what the future will be. Even the quatrains of Nostradamus had nothing relating to COVID-19.

Sadly, we forgot to turn to God for guidance and enlightenment. All the bible prophecies of Jeremiah, Isaiah, Elijah, Samuel etc. came true. A 100% scoring average because they asked God for guidance. The Mayans, Aztecs, Assyrians, Greek, Hindus, Egyptians, Bushmen, Mongols, Persians, Indigenous tribes, turn to their gods, spirits, anitos, diwatas for guidance with meaningful symbols and ceremonies. They kneel, pray, fast, offer sacrifices etc. but not modern man. We are smug, complacent and arrogant. We think that we are the masters of the universe. We believe that by clicking the dial, twisting, turning the knob, pushing the buttons and switches of our high tech, sophisticated, super powerful computers, smartphones, and tablets, we get exact, perfect answers for anything and everything. We are impressed with our coconut and (??) look with awe and reverence at the feedback from the machines we created that we forgot to give thanks or even to remember that it was God that guided our hands and minds to build the machines.

The COVID vaccine made the world realize a simple truth. 8 billion beings are divided into two (2) groups: the poor, second, third, fourth to the 20th world nations representing 6 billion les miserable; and the rich, first world nations (US, UK, EU) of about one and a half billion lucky persons. The rich nations made the vaccine because they had the money, machines and brains. The first, second and third vaccines users are US, UK, EU, Russia etc. The poor nations are still outside the tent looking inside hoping and waiting that rich states will remember them and throw the unused excess crumbs.

The first line in Charles Dickens a Tale of 2 Cities is “it was the best of times. It was the worst of times”. COVID 19 will disappear if we humbly accept that without God, we can do nothing. We have to pray and fast as often as possible. The Lord will listen and will answer our prayers.