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===Tianxia=== | ===Tianxia=== | ||
{{divhide|Food for thought: Together we fail, together we stand.}} | |||
'''SARS-CoV-2 – a natural killer virus, a man-made mass murder''' | |||
You cannot cheat physics.<br> | |||
You cannot negotiate with nature.<br> | |||
If you try you gonna pay in human lifes – and regrets. | |||
This 100 nanometer sized killer gives a shit about politics and alternative facts.<br> | |||
It mercilessly attacks the complexity of reality and therefore our minds. | |||
The truth is viruses emerge all the time. But the over-extensive use of natural resources make them more probable to infect humans. Overpopulation and globalization accelerated the spread. | |||
China could have given sooner warnings about the threat but didn't because we weren't very nice to them in the past. They didn't wanted to blamed for the mess. They wanted to protect their rise to power. The few information available not just hindered the work of the WHO but also the view of us regular people to see what Corona really was. They shouldn't have tried to censor images about busting hospitals and crematories. And so we first thought "oh, it's not that bad, it's just a strong flu". | |||
USA did not help the situation by trying to construct a narrative about the virus being made in Chinese labs – therefore sabotaging chances of cooperation – while also downplaying the danger of the virus on their own ground. Trump basically a killed a good number republicans himself and destroyed social coherence. Masks? Pah, who needs that? Stop being so unpatriotic... When nature proofed him wrong he tried to sell his lies as anti-panic doings. | |||
Trump was a role model for Bolsonaro who also tried use the pandemic to his advantage. It needed a brutal reality to heal the mind of the masses. Too many had died. Too many graves that couldn't be ignored any longer. | |||
Russia thought of Corona as another chance to destabilize and weaken Europe by spreading doubts about the security of Western vaccines. The bitter irony was that the disinformation became a boomerang. Even their own vaccine Sputnik became a "bad seller". | |||
Europe failed its self-proclaimed humanistic standards. The halfhearted support, concerns over profit, the non-distribution of vaccines and their patents prolonged the pandemic as a whole. This made it even easier for virus variants to emerge. Africa gave Europa what it deserved for its hypocritical denial. | |||
Competing systems. Competing geopolitics. Competing narratives. | |||
Conspiracy theories. Alternative facts. Fake News. | |||
Lies by people. Lies by companies. Lies by governments. | |||
'''We all thought we were smarter than the little bugger and could continue to play our own games.''' | |||
'''Instead of having fought each other we should have fought the virus – mutually.'''<br> | |||
Damage control. | |||
What will be the lesson of this horror? Well, Corona will not cease to exist and so will memetic plagues in our heads. | |||
"To err is human." | |||
This must not be the final gist. | |||
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"Let us err upwards." | |||
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====Dev notes==== | ====Dev notes==== | ||
This easily gets "scope creeping", because quite complex. '''Note to self: try to "cool down".''' | This easily gets "scope creeping", because quite complex. '''Note to self: try to "cool down".''' | ||