Despite the rapidly falling mortality rate of the phantom illness, COVID-19, in the face of the rapidly/suspiciously rising infection rate (this thing is heading toward a ‘common cold’ level of danger), public officials and medical totalitarians are insisting that contact tracers continue their fool task of snooping into the personal lives of American citizens in order to follow the trajectory of COVID-19. Unsurprisingly, no one wants to talk to these federal snoops, and they don’t. Enough people have refused to speak to them that now New York county is issuing subpoenas to the non-compliant, with a $2000-a-day fine for continuing to refuse to talk to the COVID cops. We knew this would eventually happen, that the mask would come off and the pandemic thugs would finally brandish their club and issue their threats. But who really blames anyone for refusing to speak to these snoops, especially in such a locked-down police state like New York? I’m sure there exists a very real fear that COVID-positive individuals will be dragged from their homes and forcibly quarantined. It’s reasonable, considering everything that has already happened.
The tragedy of all of this is that every action the government is taking is utterly futile: we are on an express train straight to natural herd immunity no matter what the government does. We only have to step back and allow it to happen. Strangely, it’s reminded me of a scene from the film, Contact. The human race begins receiving blueprints for an alien vessel, which is quickly constructed. But since the blueprints didn’t include a seat for a human passenger, the scientists, in their hubris, put their own. When Jodie Foster’s character enters the craft and “takes flight”, the seat violently rattles and shakes. She releases herself from the seat moments before it detaches and is destroyed by the vessel itself. Not only did she not need the seat, the seat itself was a clear danger to her life, despite offering an illusion of safety. She floated peacefully after freeing herself.
We have to free ourself from this vain and destructive impulse to control the social world. Let the powerful, positive social forces run free, we have nothing to fear except our own primitive urge to resist those forces. Remove all control and allow the virus to naturally spread, building an impenetrable immunity barrier, thereby protecting us as well as future generations.
COVID-19 is its own vaccine. We should prefer nature’s inoculation over the Frankenstein shot we’re being primed to accept in the near future.
