Whose weapon is the coronavirus?

In an environment where the coronavirus has taken our lives completely hostage, and moreover is imposing its rule on everyone without distinguishing between rich and poor countries or people, the best thing we can do is to think, talk, and reason. Naturally the first thought that comes to mind is that what has befallen us is not a natural process but a very well-planned operation by someone.

Whoever made this weapon, which has had an effect unseen anywhere in the world, which has been able to halt all global processes, traffic, production, transportation, must be even stronger than the power of all these effects it has been able to cause.

Truth be told, until now I have always preferred to talk about the effects of the coronavirus. Of course, I do not at all wish to dismiss the possibility that someone is behind it. No one can say with certainty that there is no such hidden hand.

In fact the strongest side of conspiracy theories is also their weakest side, the very one that takes them out of being scientific: they cannot easily be falsified. When Karl Popper's famous principle of "falsifiability" is applied, the most logical conspiracy theory put forward -since the more logical it is, the less falsifiable it is- ends up being not that far removed from science after all.

As long as there is no evidence, document, or serious sign that truly requires thinking this way, arriving at such constructions merely from the results makes it impossible, by the same route, to refute this process as well.

Still, this logic and the principle of falsifiability of course do not show that there is no such conspiracy. That is why it is usually easier and more correct, instead of the helpless effort of inspecting for an undemonstrable perpetrator behind this, to think about what the process we are living through is doing to us and where it is dragging us. In the end, even if someone has had a hand in it, what has happened has happened. Get well soon, we have eaten the operation, all of us as the globe.

Can the prophecies found these days to show the conspiracy about the coronavirus prove this sufficiently?

Some prophecies are circulating. When a prophecy appears to have come true, the two typical modes of behavior are either to attribute a karamah, a miracle, to that prophecy or to count that prophecy as part of the conspiracy. Yet, first, there is no point in attributing a miracle to the prophecies in this matter, since there was no one who did not know that a virus epidemic was one of the greatest risks of the globe we live on. Viruses and epidemic diseases based on viruses are not cases that entered our lives with globalization. They are as old as human history. In a world where, with globalization, humanity lives so intertwined, a world that has literally turned into a tiny village, the threat that can arise from a contagious virus has long been on the world's agenda anyway. That people make prophecies that come true with inspirations drawn from this agenda shows not their miracles but only that they have followed certain developments in the world well, which of course is nothing to belittle.

Second, those who count prophecies as part of a possible conspiracy turn this in time into a morbid way of thinking. Those who announce an impending earthquake may be only the heralds of the earthquake, not its perpetrators.

Nevertheless, of course, as we said before, we cannot entirely dismiss the possibility that this virus was produced in a laboratory. But until this possibility is proven, there is no point in dwelling on it too much. After all, we must not forget that among the countries and people affected by this virus right now, there are also all the usual suspects of such a possible conspiracy.

Look at Europe! With all its legend, its sociology, its values, its economy, it has collapsed before this virus.

Look at ABD! It is helpless before still serious uncertainty about how this virus may affect it.

Look at Israel! It is in no different a situation. Look at China…

Ha, if you like, let us try to reach a conclusion by looking at who comes out the most profitable from this event.

When we set out to look for the perpetrator, we face a boomerang that circulates from hand to hand, or rather advances by striking from face to face.

Just look, Trump, instead of naming the virus Corona or Covid-19, prefers to name it directly the "Chinese Virus." Thus ABD, the usual suspect of all times of the world, holds China responsible for this event. Social media accounts based in BAE and Greece, on the other hand, say that Türkiye may be behind this, given that it is the country the virus entered latest and that has been least affected so far. This too is a conspiracy, and there is serious data that would make it easy for all of them to think so.

A more interesting conspiracy, again of BAE origin: Noura al-Motayri, the very imaginative writer of the Okaz newspaper, openly evaluated this virus as a great weapon for taking over the world and wrote that Qatar had joined this great weapon as an investor partner together with Iran and the Democrats. Although she later said that what she wrote was entirely literary fiction, these statements did not take long to find a serious buyer waiting to purchase, adopt, and spread them.

In the end, while the virus continues its effect aimed at spreading its own sultanate, exercising its rule, and in the meantime determining the world of the future, some do not refrain from the greed of settling old scores through the virus.