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COVID-19 Side Effects: Reality and Clarity
Posted
By Kathleen Wallace On March 13, 2020
Photograph Source: Steve Bowbrick – CC BY 2.0
The fragility of our American system is about to be
laid bare.
A foundation built on corporate welfare without any
notion of a common welfare for the citizens can’t withstand an onslaught of
reality. The corona virus has no interest in false economies or nonsensical
patriotism. It can’t tell if it’s chomping into a billionaire or a homeless
individual. It’s egalitarian in that sense—of course the wealthy can somewhat
mitigate their risks, but as the incoming reports of sports superstars as well
as Hollywood elites testing positive for the virus shows–they are simply
pending germ factories to hijack, just like the rest of us.
Having no universal healthcare like other industrialized
nations has been a moral lapse of incredible proportions. Trump certainly never
advocated for such a thing and sadly Joe Biden says he will veto a bill
for this should it land on his desk. This type of “choice” for voters doesn’t
allow for any ethical path. Accepting this sort of situation broadens over to
an acceptance of all manner of sociopathic individualism. Selfishness may not
be called out immediately; the adults in the room sneer at the impossibility of
what other nations have been doing for decades, but ultimately something akin
to karma seems to arise. The success of humans was dependent on collective
survival practice—this moment in time when the sociopaths are in charge is an
aberration. They have convinced most Americans that somehow this is normal—for
us to not let someone ever get sick (try it at a fast food job—no pay, then no
food, then no home……in short, you are not allowed to be sick). This ludicrous
situation is nothing but taking the human condition on as a commodity, wringing
out the work, and allowing the hoarding of money for a minuscule top group of
individuals. They could never in multiple lifetimes spend all that cash—all the
while others can’t even get sick. We are asking the poor to be superhuman to
swell the belly of the elite.
Comedian/writer etc. Megan Amran tweeted (I’ll clean it
up a little) that COVID-19 is going to be a black light in a semen covered
hotel room. The United States is that hotel room. In the daylight it looks
pretty normal, but in reality…………….
We don’t have any notion of what is truly going on with
the spread. Two strains? One much worse? There’s evidently been no systematic
testing to even reliably know mortality rates. Are many infected with mild
symptoms? The information is just not there for us in any reliable manner. We
have the strength of the internet to disseminate information, but how can
anyone know what is correct in this environment? Trump recently saying we’d be
down to zero cases! How’s that working out? How long before he has it at this
rate?
The indications that this thing would be dire came way
back in January. I doubt the Chinese officials were welding doors to contain
people in their apartments out of a love for welding. The videos were coming
out many, many weeks ago. The time for preparation in the form of testing kit
production was then. But we have a government that operates on holograms and
empty rhetoric and a populace stunted in a daddy tell me what’s going on phase
of development.
There is a potential at the end of all this for massive
societal change. It’s all going to be laid bare—the rot of corruption, the
filth of allowing hoarder billionaires to flourish while people die needlessly.
All of this could have been avoided….all the way down to not allowing the
misery of those open air food markets. Causing pain for any sentient creature
is going to snowball and that’s what has happened here. All the great plagues
seem to have come from wanton cruelty, whether sending out soldiers in huge
numbers to kill each other during WW I or the European invasion of the New
World —even Genghis Khan’s legions bringing sickness to invaded areas is
implicated in plague distribution. Cruelty and a dismissal of the sanctity and
worth of others….. well it just lets the microbes get in on the fun of destruction.
Cruelty is the seed.
When the dust clears from this, hopefully the entire
notion of trust in government may be gone. We can’t continue to mindlessly
accept the hierarchy as it is, and a new age must emerge.
We are not here to work and toil for billionaires, and
we must begin to care about others.
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