A new infectious disease comes along, and look at how we react

If COVID-19 has accomplished anything, it’s that it has exposed how psychologically brittle we are as a culture. Our collective psyche is as sensitive as an exposed nerve.

A new infectious disease arrives, and the situation is immediately catastrophized, the worst possible scenario is viewed as the one most likely to be true, and we proceed to destroy society, ironically harming the most vulnerable, destroying the lives of children, violating human rights on an unprecedented scale, dangling modern civilization over a socio-economic abyss. And all for this?

I truly believe that when Doomsday does arrive, it will arrive on the wings of irony. And in our last moment before our descent back into Stone Age oblivion, I at least hope we’ll be granted enough of a sense of perspective to realize that we caused it, and for no other reason than that we were allowed to be frightened into extinction by the phantom creations of our own mind.

Cruise ships forced crew members to stay at sea, confined to their small rooms for months, and many committed suicide

I’ve wondered many times how we could’ve made it this far as a species, considering our collective behavior over the past year. Here’s another story that makes me feel the same way. The callous indifference to the fate of these people by the cruise companies and the crew members’ own governments, is unforgivable.

England’s lockdown suddenly expanded to encompass 75% of population

Tier 4, stay-at-home orders, non-essential business closed. This will last for months.

There’s really nothing more to say aside from the fact that we are witnessing the deliberate suicide of once-great nations. The middle/working class masses have found themselves living under fascism in all but name. It is the most unbelievably destructive event happening in Western nations that we will ever witness.