No Nightingale Preceding to 2020
Due to corona-viruses, many people, otherwise health, have experienced the state of being sick. They must be, if recovered after receiving medical care, thankful to medical doctors and other staff in charge as well as medical science. However, whom or what should recovered people most appreciate? Whom or what does the God want recovered people to most appreciate, since the corona-pandemic must not have occurred without God's approval.
Those who are always close to patients are not medical doctors or but clinical nurses. And it is well known that the one who mostly contributed to professionalising nursing roles for women more than a century ago was Florence Nightingale (1820-1910).
Florence Nightingale wrote:
In watching diseases, both in private houses and in public hospitals, the thing which strikes the experienced observer most forcibly is this, that the symptoms or the sufferings generally considered to be inevitable and incident to the disease are very often not symptoms of the disease at all, but of something quite different—of the want of fresh air, or of light, or of warmth, or of quiet, or of cleanliness, or of punctuality and care in the administration of diet, of each or of all of these. And this quite as much in private as in hospital nursing.
The reparative process which Nature has instituted and which we call disease, has been hindered by some want of knowledge or attention, in one or in all of these things, and pain, suffering, or interruption of the whole process sets in.
If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing.http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/12439/pg12439-images.html
This notion seems to have become an underlying principle of modern medication. And it seems to reflect the spirit of Christ Jesus curing sick people without using the 21st modern medication.
After Nightingale had died, the Spanish Flu was set off (as well as WWI). And after having killed 20 million to 50 million victims world wide, "by the summer of 1919, the flu pandemic came to an end, as those that were infected either died or developed immunity (https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/1918-flu-pandemic#section_13)".
So, those who suffered the Spanish Flu could not receive modern effective medications. To them, nursing conditions must have been critical. And, there must have been great contribution from Nightingale to such nursing contributions.
Nonetheless, in this 2020 corona-virus pandemic, we have had no Nightingale who should have made great contribution to improvement of nursing conditions to corona-virus infected people, while such improvement is highly required as development of vaccines seems to need further months.
In other words, the God had given Nightingale to the world preceding to the 1918 Spanish Flu, but no Nightingale to the 2020 corona-virus pandemic. It may be an ill omen.
Christ Jesus healed people based on His love to them. Nightingale put importance on maternal love in nursing. So, it is thought that as the material civilization has developed so much as to pay less attention to love to people than to money, the God must have stopped protecting people by preventing the corona-virus pandemic. No Nightingale preceding to 2020 must be indeed an ill omen.
Nightingale did not discuss economic efficiency in nursing. But, contemporary elites must not be unable to stop thinking about economic efficiency even in fighting corona-viruses. In any modern society, medical treatment is expensive. Drug companies develop medicines for profits rather than from love to people. It is expected that manufacturers of vaccines for corona viruses will get big profits, although people will appreciate the vaccines.
Indeed, in the vaccine market, corporate integration was recently promoted, so that four major companies now account for 80% of the global vaccine market whose value is about 45 billion dollars.
Anyway, believers must wonder why the God or Christ Jesus has not yet sent their Angels to the human world to save them from the pandemic. But, if this pandemic is a warning to the mankind for the end of the world, which the God has already decided, it can be understood.
In this context, future people facing the end of the world, say, in the end of the 21st century, must think that their ancestors, namely us, should have repent more in the 2020 corona-virus pandemic.
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John 6 King James Version (KJV)
24 When the people therefore saw that Jesus was not there, neither his disciples, they also took shipping, and came to Capernaum, seeking for Jesus.
25 And when they had found him on the other side of the sea, they said unto him, Rabbi, when camest thou hither?
26 Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled.
27 Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.