The COVID-19 pandemic as a consequence of sustainable changes in the planet’s biosphere

Abstract

The pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus has demonstrated the development of new global biological, biophysical and epidemiological processes able to change human environment and cause signifi cant demographic, social and economic consequences. The explanation of the pandemic as caused by accidental transmission of the virus from animal to human does not seem convincing and does not correspond to the scale of the planetary biological shifts that have occurred as a result of the pandemic. The authors of the article develop a hypothesis that links the causes of the COVID-19 pandemic with global environmental problems and damages of the biocoenosis of large ecosystems on the planet. The disastrous reduction of forest areas throughout the continents has led to a growing disproportion of the plant kingdom, animals and the expansion of viruses in biosphere. The mechanism of viral infections propagation has changed under conditions of violation of the stability of the biocoenosis and the fi lling of large ecosystems with viruses. Along with the traditional methods of infection transmission from person to person, the physical features of viruses and their correlations to the nanoworld have become signifi cantly important. Literature data and the results of our own research suggest that viruses have wave properties and are capable of creating stable resonance systems and an electromagnetic fi eld. Presumably, the energy of the electromagnetic fi eld determines the mechanism for filling ecosystems with viruses, “competitive relations” with other representatives of the microcosm, and the process of self-limitation of viral expansion. The article for the first time touches upon the issues of the interaction of viruses within the framework of viral and viral-bacterial microbiocenosis, the persistence of viruses in the human body and the development of chronic diseases. The study of the mechanisms of virus expansion, the patterns of emergence and contagion suggests newopportunities for understanding the nature of new viral infections and the development of methods to resist them.