I’m suffering from SIS – Severe Indecision Syndrome. Most unlike me. I’m usually overopinionated rather than under but right now, on one hand, I get this overwhelming feeling that lockdown might well be the only way we’re going to survive this Covid-19 virus.
On the other hand, I scratch my head and wonder how it is that three months since China admitted Wuhan had a problem virus on its hands, the statistical information and research seems to be as sketchy as it was from day one and the figures don’t look even close to catching up with the reality.
One doesn’t need to look far to find information about annual influenza outbreaks and the surprising numbers of deaths each year from every day, garden variety, influenza. LiveScience reports
“The new coronavirus causing COVID-19 has led to more than 454,000 illnesses and more than 20,550 deaths worldwide. For comparison, in the U.S. alone, the flu (also called influenza) has caused an estimated 38 million illnesses, 390,000 hospitalizations and 23,000 deaths this season, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).”
So why is it that there is such a worldwide catastrophic response taking place over Covid-19?
We have a variety of weird and wonderful theories being bandied about of conspiracies and the hatching of a new world order which, after a couple of bourbons, are moulding into perfectly believable theories.
I mean – was it really necessary to declare a state of emergency and give the police the unlimited powers they currently have? Parliament isn’t sitting. We have no opposition. A committee is running the country. And all this just weeks after armed police squads became the norm. Cheers, I’ll just have another bourbon.
Now, where was I? Oh yeah, and we haven’t heard a single word for ages from anybody in the Greens. That, in the circumstances, is decidedly creepy and frightening. I bet they’re on Skype behind our backs planning no end of no good.
Meanwhile, for the greater public good, our fellow citizens are being encouraged to become complete tattletales and I see they’re rising to the occasion with admirable dexterity to call 111 to dob people in. The emergency phone lines have been so busy with Covid-19 lockdown breach emergencies that the authorities have had to set up a “dobemin.co.nz” web site to help with the excessive emergency complaint loads.
That too is crashing from immediate public overuse syndrome.
We’ve just worked through three months that have changed the world and there’s much more to come. What will happen when Covid-19 ends? We will all be dependent on our government and other governments around the world. I admit that I feel a very deep sense of discomfort and apprehension about that. It could be that the cure will be worse than the disease.
Am I the only one sitting here, scratching my head and wondering: Is Covid-19 a genuine international crisis or is it CovidGate-19?
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