why Covid-19? what is the spiritual meaning?

[Navaratna]

Even though this is a collective experience, the catalyst involved is very much personal. If acknowledged, accepted, and processed, it very well could light that spark within one's self to what one has been ignoring for quite some time. It could be one of many last pushes of civilization towards waking ones self up to its spiritual nature. Finally getting one to ask the important questions. Taking a step back from the mundane and truly beginning to see the meaning of one's life. At least, that's my hope during all of the sadness and despair currently infecting the world.

It has allowed many, many millions to just take a step back and think about what they're doing.

That in itself to me is pretty astonishing that if it weren't for a plague, everyone would just be on their treadmill/hamster wheel. Relentlessly.

I think this year is really around the time where if you live in a modern country, all you do is make money and nothing else. No one has time to think. It's very sad. Expressing these thoughts is criticized heavily as sounding out of touch.

I think 2008 was really a year when it gradually shifted towards this. The cost of living rising so much, yet people's wages and savings plummeting. It's always been difficult in the developed world but there used to be some space in between for a person who wanted to have a simple lifestyle. All that leeway has been drained by the exploding cost of living. No one has any sympathy "Just get a job making 70,000$ you lazy idiot" and rack up tremendous debt over the cost of tuition which has also inflated relentlessly in the past decade.

This whole thing really shows people how f***** up everything can quickly get when middle class or people can't work for just 2 months.

There are so many conflicts brewing because people are trapped at home with roommates or family and our society thinks it is acceptable for people to be packed like sardines in to 1200-1500$ crappy little apartments housing multiple people. Or people globally being released early from penitentiaries yet have no job...or place to live being told stay at home? No one wants to speak of how many relationships have been destroyed, people who have gotten knocked out, or gotten kicked out/made homeless over all this. Older people crammed in to homes where they'll all get sick very easily because it's all they can afford. Workers abandoning them because the owners are too cheap to give them protective equipment.

People renting a room in a house/apt while people in it expect you to just be at work 90% of the time and act so horribly dismayed that a person might just feel like lounging 24/7 with this going on even though they're paying to live there. When people rent they're paying for their space, not time in my opinion. No one thinks of it that way if they share a house. Even though they always pay a lot if you live in a developed nation. Utterly backwards.

I'm glad the way things are going for me, but we're about to look savage when no one has a haircut for 3 months and people get all skinny from having no food.

*beats chest with fists*