There used to be a time when people were careful about the words they used, especially those related to bad things. Words had magic powers. Talk of the devil, and he would appear. Curse somebody with a disease of some sort, and that someone might very well get infected.
No-one today is much bothered about this, and as a consequence, people talk eagerly about the pandemic as if we've been hit by the plague. However, there are no piles of bodies in the streets, there are no mass graves and there's hardly anyone under the age of 80 dying of the flu, which gives me an eerie feeling that God may have a little surprise up his sleeve. With all this talk of a pandemic, God may give us one just to let us know what a real one looks like. Better still, he may choose to spread it through a vaccine. That would be in line with his other tricks.
God has a tendency to poke his finger in the eye of those who try to do his work, and it would be very much in line with his previous tricks to direct his message through some man made disaster.
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