Two and a half weeks after this article was published, it seems like we in the UK are only just beginning to wake up to the unprecedented long-term impact this outbreak is going to have on all of our lives.
To my mind, this pandemic is just another of the various ways in which the planet is trying to get our attention and ask us to consider some serious questions. If our hope is to return to business as usual once the peak is past, we may as well be climbing back onto the tracks in the sure and certain knowledge that there will soon be another oncoming train, and another, and another.
Thanks for that observation Rob. I think the emphasis on history to guide us to understand what the future will bring is misplaced. Your picture of a sequence of trains coming down the track to mow us down is entirely relevant. We need to recognise who is telling us that getting back on the track to normal is our route to heaven and educate the population of the inevitability of the train service schedule.
Ian Thompson
3 years ago
There are key differences of COVID-19 to appreciate compared to past worldwide epidemics (vice “pandemics”). Whereas the Bubonic Plague paved the way for advances in government, science, and labor rights, COVID-19 has paved the way for governmental abuse, election fraud, and tyranny.
Prior histories of disease are indeed examples of uncoordinated approaches to true epidemics which demonstrate a legitimate risk. The mitigation of polio and other debilitating and deadly diseases through science and sanitation are examples of effective coordinated responses. Current COVID over-reaction, however, is a manipulation of the coordinated approach. With COVID, historical fear, a weaponized virus, and inaccurate models were used to present a false narrative; science is being further suppressed and denied to sustain that fear and allow the implementation of policies that change world economies and institutions. Is COVID-19 “an illness that kills maybe one in six old people” when the average age of “COVID-deaths” is above the average life expectancy? What is the real cause of this “crisis”? The changes to counting methods? The use of PCR tests which are completely unsuitable to disease testing? The policies of lockdowns and mask-use that are counter to scientific reality and result in risks from other health concerns to include stress disease and suicide?
Like any tool, disease can be harnessed for good and for evil, and COVID-19 is truly unlike any “disease” the world has yet known.
Two and a half weeks after this article was published, it seems like we in the UK are only just beginning to wake up to the unprecedented long-term impact this outbreak is going to have on all of our lives.
To my mind, this pandemic is just another of the various ways in which the planet is trying to get our attention and ask us to consider some serious questions. If our hope is to return to business as usual once the peak is past, we may as well be climbing back onto the tracks in the sure and certain knowledge that there will soon be another oncoming train, and another, and another.
Thanks for that observation Rob. I think the emphasis on history to guide us to understand what the future will bring is misplaced. Your picture of a sequence of trains coming down the track to mow us down is entirely relevant. We need to recognise who is telling us that getting back on the track to normal is our route to heaven and educate the population of the inevitability of the train service schedule.
There are key differences of COVID-19 to appreciate compared to past worldwide epidemics (vice “pandemics”). Whereas the Bubonic Plague paved the way for advances in government, science, and labor rights, COVID-19 has paved the way for governmental abuse, election fraud, and tyranny.
Prior histories of disease are indeed examples of uncoordinated approaches to true epidemics which demonstrate a legitimate risk. The mitigation of polio and other debilitating and deadly diseases through science and sanitation are examples of effective coordinated responses. Current COVID over-reaction, however, is a manipulation of the coordinated approach. With COVID, historical fear, a weaponized virus, and inaccurate models were used to present a false narrative; science is being further suppressed and denied to sustain that fear and allow the implementation of policies that change world economies and institutions. Is COVID-19 “an illness that kills maybe one in six old people” when the average age of “COVID-deaths” is above the average life expectancy? What is the real cause of this “crisis”? The changes to counting methods? The use of PCR tests which are completely unsuitable to disease testing? The policies of lockdowns and mask-use that are counter to scientific reality and result in risks from other health concerns to include stress disease and suicide?
Like any tool, disease can be harnessed for good and for evil, and COVID-19 is truly unlike any “disease” the world has yet known.