The sheep look up

Thursday, March 19, 2020

And here I thought that the human race could not get any sillier.

but then I'm always wrong about that human beings have a capacity for being brilliant when it comes to being stupid.

 Nothing shows that more than the current reaction to the Coronavirus.

 This is akin to the idea that  to cure a patient you have to kill the patient. or in other vernacular using an atomic bomb to cure your problem with mice.

So, basically we have destroyed the world economy because people are scared to death of getting the flu.

We keep getting really phony and distorted statistics from the Center for Disease Control, telling this how fast-moving this is because they were clear epicenters throughout the world showing its spread – most of which has to do with flight patterns to and from China during and after the Chinese New Year celebrations.

This demonstrates how you can torture statistics to make them say anything you want.

Putting aside the usual conspiracy theories such as the Democrats wanted to destroy the economy in order to bring down Trump or that is some sort of biological weapon launched by the Chinese. There is enough blame to go around without them.

Of course, it is Politically Incorrect and racist these days to blame the Chinese or to point out to the fact that this virus came from China when in fact almost all of the flu viruses we have endured over the last 70 years have come from China or that part of the world.

 It is also problematic to point out to the doomsayers of today that flu has it is also problematic to point out to the doomsayers of today that flu has been killing tens of thousands of people yearly unnoticed until media decided to play global politics with the current pandemic.

 This spread of hysteria is worse than the virus did and has infected everybody on every level of government in practically every nation in the world to the point of having no cure.

The other problem is that the nation is now ruled by a group of deluded people who believe that banning plastic bags is going to save the world.

You can't argue with people who think they are God.

So, you have this panic-stricken group of self-righteous people leaping into the fray and deciding that destroying people's jobs, livelihoods, closing down businesses, bars, restaurants and chasing tourists away is the way to not catch the flu.

Notice that all of these people who are making these decisions are not losing their jobs or their livelihoods or risking anything.  For the most part they're people in government whose movements are not being restricted and behind closed doors do not create social space.

They are also willing to throw the doors open to prisons to let prisoners out while imprisoning ordinary citizens in their homes and are willing to use the National Guard to make sure people stay there.

I wish I could say that this lunacy was confined to the Northeast and the most liberal part of the planet but it's not.

In fact, this madness is more contagious than the disease it is designed to protect us against and there are people who are doing their best to make sure the madness continues even as evidence worldwide shows that much of the hysteria is based on BS.

 Once you give people power over your life they are going to be very reluctant to relinquish it.

 They're building the society so full of fear that eventually people are going to react and the government will have to use the National Guard for reasons that have nothing to do with the spread for the virus.

 Sometimes I'd like to think that the virus is only an excuse to test a system of social control since we have been struck with pandemics almost yearly since the 70s and before that several serious outbreaks that did not require us to build bomb shelters to protect ourselves.

I would like to think that this is all designed to put us in a frame of mind that went we really do get a national threat like a biological attack the government will know how we react.

Unfortunately, the truth is more Insidious than any plot to curb our rights.  Today's leadership is just too stupid to concoct anything so brilliant.

So, we have reverted to the mentality that I suffered through as a kid hiding under my desk at school for the eventual nuclear bomb that was going to melt me in place.

Instead, we all stand 6 ft away from each other; we cannot shake each other's hands ;we cannot hug each other; we cannot comfort each other; we cannot even see our dying relatives in nursing homes.

No, we become jobless -- sometimes homeless -- stuck in places by order of Governor to keep us apart. We cannot gather in the street; we cannot protest; we cannot raise alarm about the outrageous abuse of power.

The worst part of the senior citizens who grew up in the 1960s and have seen this kind of abuse of power before and now walk to the ovens-- I'm sorry --  walk into their homes like sheep.

Much fascism starts with good intentions such as making sure the trains run on time only in our case it's very risky to get on trains you might catch something.

People seem to be more concerned about whether they have enough toilet paper rather than how little rights they have.