by Stacey Lennox, PJ Media:

So, you thought COVID-19 came from China? Maybe from a serving of bat soup in a wet market? Or perhaps it escaped from a lab.

According to the United Nations, you’re mistaken. The pandemic was caused by millennia of patriarchy, and we all know it:

The #COVID19 pandemic is demonstrating what we all know: millennia of patriarchy have resulted in a male-dominated world with a male-dominated culture which damages everyone – women, men, girls & boys.

— @antonioguterres https://t.co/ppSUGLr2Wx pic.twitter.com/krT6HkQil6

— United Nations (@UN) September 6, 2020

Blaming the patriarchy is a laughable attribution. It has long been recognized that some viruses and bacteria will figure out how to jump from animals to humans as they evolve. Likewise, both China’s wet markets—which often include wild animals—and their lax safety procedures at government labs have been noted as risks for the emergence of new human illnesses.

I guess Xi Jinping is a man, and I have no problem blaming the global pandemic on the way he and the CCP have managed the virus. However, the assertion in the tweet is simply ridiculous. If anything, COVID becoming a global pandemic at the scale it did can be attributed to globalization and the fact that people routinely travel the world over, carrying whatever germs they have on them to every corner of the world.

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As is clear from the tweet, as well as the United Nations’ website, globalization is something the agency is a proponent of. The chief concern is that the pandemic will impact the agency’s Sustainable Development Goals. These goals replaced Agenda 21 and were targeted to be accomplished by 2030:

We are facing a global development emergency both in scale and scope unlike any other in recent history. The pandemic threatens to roll back progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals, putting the “world we want” further out of reach. Inequality and poverty are on the rise, and countries of all income levels are scrambling to protect vulnerable people from the health, social and economic shocks the pandemic has caused.

The quote from the secretary-general in the tweet above caught my eye. I have seen the words “equal,” “inclusive,” and “resilient” in too many places at this point not to have them set off alarm bells. The social justice crowd in the United States uses these themes constantly. They are in everything, including the Green New Deal, the Biden/Sanders Unity Platform, training based on Critical Race Theory, and the Black Lives Matter agenda.

However, as those who have studied critical social justice movements, such as Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay, have noted, these concepts have a distinct definition when used in this context. “Equal” does not refer to equal opportunity. Instead, it refers to equal outcomes. “Inclusive” means giving more weight to the opinions and needs of those who fall lower on the intersectional pyramid due to whatever particular identity they claim. “Resilient” is code for massive investments in green technologies and so-called “frontline communities.” It often signals enormous wealth redistribution and government control of large sectors of the economy.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has become the pretext for urgency to implement social justice priorities on a global scale. he pandemic is tied to humans’ impact on the environment and these forces have combined to change the way we live.

In Cell Press, Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. David Morens concluded an article discussing the emergence of pandemics with the following:

Living in greater harmony with nature will require changes in human behavior as well as other radical changes that may take decades to achieve: rebuilding the infrastructures of human existence, from cities to homes to workplaces, to water and sewer systems, to recreational and gatherings venues. In such a transformation we will need to prioritize changes in those human behaviors that constitute risks for the emergence of infectious diseases. Chief among them are reducing crowding at home, work, and in public places as well as minimizing environmental perturbations such as deforestation, intense urbanization, and intensive animal farming.

They press on to say:

The COVID-19 pandemic is yet another reminder, added to the rapidly growing archive of historical reminders, that in a human-dominated world, in which our human activities represent aggressive, damaging, and unbalanced interactions with nature, we will increasingly provoke new disease emergences. We remain at risk for the foreseeable future. COVID-19 is among the most vivid wake-up calls in over a century. It should force us to begin to think in earnest and collectively about living in more thoughtful and creative harmony with nature, even as we plan for nature’s inevitable, and always unexpected, surprises.

Of course, the paper advocates greater involvement in global organizations such as the United Nations and the World Health Organization. This demand is not surprising given that these organizations are saying similar things. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said a vaccine won’t end the pandemic. Rather, we must learn to make permanent adjustments to our daily lives. And of course:

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