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In the wake of the Nipah virus outbreak in India, we rush to blame the virus. But did we force it out of its natural habitat? This perspective challenges our worldview on zoonotic diseases and asks: who's really responsible? When we destroy forests and consume wildlife, we invite viruses into our world. The virus does what it mustβ€”replicate and survive. But are we doing what we must? Our flawed philosophy of endless consumption and environmental destruction brought this upon ourselves. It's time to look inward, not outward.

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00:00Sinipa virus can spread from animals to humans and currently has no vaccine or proven treatment.
00:05We talk of the virus as the problem. In fact, if you go to the social media
00:13to get a hang of how we are looking at the whole thing in a cultural way,
00:18you often find the virus being depicted as a demon or a horned monster or something, right?
00:26That's how we are trying to portray the virus. But is the virus to be blamed?
00:33Did the virus conspire to come and affect and kill humanity?
00:41Or did we go and force the virus to come to us?
00:47In a lighter mean, even the virus must be in a state of shock right now.
00:54The virus was gladly living where it was, where it must be, in the lap of the jungles.
01:03But when we go to the jungle, we destroy the jungle.
01:07We want to just eat and consume anything that we can lay our hands on.
01:15And so we have forced the virus to come to us.
01:18And now it is the nature of the virus to mutate and travel and propagate itself and infect as many
01:25as possible.
01:26The virus is doing what the virus must. We are not doing what we must. The virus is almost a
01:33chemical, you see.
01:35What we are saying is, oh, the chemical is to be blamed. Seriously?
01:38So because our entire world view is flawed, because the very philosophy that forms the foundation
01:52of our civilization and our existence is flawed, therefore we keep getting such episodic shocks from time to time.
02:05We'll see you soon
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