Is this God's plan

No, I don’t think it’s part of God’s plan. I know exactly where I would put the blame, and it’s not God.

It’s not God or Mother Nature giving us lessons.

It’s just simple cause and effect. Over populate any species and disease spreads.

No need for any higher power.

I don't believe God interferes that directly into our petty human lives. I like to believe things happen so that we can enter more closely into His Divine life.

I have wondered that myself polomint although I'm agnostic anyway. I think it might be Mother Nature pointing out a few timely lessons.

No, I think it’s a lot more to do with the way human beings live these days - travel to any part of the world is possible (in normal times), so that opens up the spread of diseases to a much wider area in a shorter space of time.

Also, as a species, we are destroying and exploiting our natural resources at an alarming rate, and wiping out other species without much thought in our ever increasing desire to destroy the rainforest, exploit the polar regions, intensively farm, and spread ourselves all over, etc, etc. Something has to give, so perhaps it’s natures attempt to try to balance things out a bit.

This is what Jesus said:

Be children of your Father in heaven. For he causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good and sends rain on the righteousness and unrighteousness.

Noooooo,he`s sent far too much good/happiness/love etc to do that to us.

All part of his mysterious ways I guess.

I do hope not why would a loving God get pleasure at wiping out so many OAPs because they are the biggest sufferers

If He sent the virus then He will also have sent the vaccine Peasblossom.

He’s going to be very cross about the vaccine then.