off-guardian | Let’s try a little thought experiment. Just for fun.
To pass the time while we’re indefinitely locked down inside our homes,
compulsively checking the Covid-19 “active cases” and “total death”
count, washing our hands every twenty minutes, and attempting not to
touch our faces.
Before we do, though, I want to make it clear that I believe this
Covid-19 thing is real, and is probably the deadliest threat to humanity
in the history of deadly threats to humanity.
According to the data I’ve been seeing, it’s only a matter of days,
or hours, until nearly everyone on earth is infected and is either dying
in agony and alone or suffering mild, common cold-like symptoms, or
absolutely no symptoms whatsoever.
I feel that I need to state this clearly, before we do our thought
experiment, because I don’t want anyone mistakenly thinking that I’m one
of those probably Russian-backed Nazis who are going around saying,
“it’s just the flu,” or who are spreading dangerous conspiracy theories
about bio-weapons and martial law, or who are otherwise doubting or
questioning the wisdom of locking down the entire world (and likely
triggering a new Great Depression) on account of the discovery of some
glorified bug.
Obviously, this is not just the flu. Thousands of people are dying
from it. OK, sure, the flu kills many more than that, hundreds of
thousands of people annually, but this Covid-19 virus is totally new,
and not like any of the other millions of viruses that are going around
all the time, and the experts are saying it will probably kill, or
seriously sicken, or briefly inconvenience, millions or even billions of
people if we don’t lock down entire countries and terrorize everyone
into submission.
Which, don’t get me wrong, I’m all for that … this is not the time to
be questioning anything the corporate media and the authorities tell
us. This is a time to pull together, turn our minds off, and follow
orders. OK, sure, normally, it’s good to be skeptical, but we’re in a
goddamn global state of emergency! Idris Elba is infected for Chrissakes!
Sorry … I’m getting a little emotional. I’m a big-time Idris Elba
fan. The point is, I’m not a Covid-denialist, or a conspiracy theorist,
or one of those devious Chinese or Russian dissension-sowers. I know for
a fact that this pandemic is real, and warrants whatever “emergency
measures” our governments, global corporations, and intelligence
agencies want to impose on us.
No, I’m not an epidemiologist, but I have a close friend who knows a
guy who dated a woman who dated a doctor who personally knows another
doctor who works in a hospital in Italy somewhere, and she (i.e., my
friend, not the doctor in Italy) posted something on Facebook yesterday
that was way too long to read completely but was a gut-wrenching account
of how Covid-19 is killing Kuwaiti babies in their incubators!
Or maybe it was Italian babies. Like I said, it was too long to read.
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