NATURAL LAW AND COVID-19

NATURAL LAW AND COVID-19 “For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction,” said Sir Isaac Newton’s third law of motion in physics . I had occasion to read of it in Newton’s 17th century magnum opus titled NATURAL MATHEMATICS translated into English, from Latin, several years ago. I had started, but did not finish reading it. I now must now return to some of it for my own soul-succor, must reprise it, for a measure of personal philosophical relief. So, today, the Holy Spirit had sent to me a series of queries relating to the origin of the inexplicable global illnesses brought on to our planet by the virus Coronavirus Covid-19. What, if anything, had mankind done to cause the propagation, plunder of covid-19 and what next, if anything, could mankind do to propitiate our planet, to get rid of covid-19 depredations of earth ? I thought again about the thousands of pieces of space junk and debris littering earth’s upper atmosphere from decades of pollution since Russia’s Sputnik satellite in 1957 shocked the earth; launching the “space race” competition , that now many countries, some private companies, have joined. They all have left debris in space , in the earth’s upper atmosphere, the one that protects our planet from harmful rays from deep space and & its objects as well. Perhaps, I surmised, this space junk and debris had set up an infectious disease in our atmosphere. Perhaps covid-19 is but a reaction to our earlier atmospheric action. That action-reaction interaction brought Sir Isaac Newton to mind. The possibility exists that if space junk can be removed from space, if earth pollution is removed from rivers streams and earth itself; that covid-19 might naturally abate thereby. If it does not abate, our decontamination of space (and earth) surely would not hurt mankind. Rather it would help mankind, not only physically help but mentally and philosophically help, by giving all mankind understanding and something to do. For we will have a sense that earth is alive! not dead; that insults to its integrity, to its biome invite involuntary counter-reaction. It’s only natural that all of life must seek to preserve itself by the first law of nature. Therefore, covid-19 is nature’s response to mankind’s assaults upon its membrane. Chips of debris in the eyes bring tears to clear the intruder. Well, “the sky is crying. Look at the tears roll down the street,” yet wails the late Blues great Elmore James. None of this may be true! But to quote our most impetuous President Donald Trump: “What have we got to lose anyway?” If mankind earnestly sets about to remove waste debris from space and waste debris from earth, if we assiduously work to decontaminate both, space and earth, we would have nothing to lose and we would have much to gain! Maybe the abatement of Coronavirus covid-19 or its successors!