HOW TO SEE CLEARLY PAST THIS LATEST VIRAL EPIDEMIC.

 

 

(Emergencies have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberties have been eroded)  Friedrich Hayek

Lets bring things back to their just measure.

An earthquake which you survived, will remain less traumatic than a bad fall in a stairwell that actually injured you.

We can easily become infected by the collective fever, when we watch too much news about this pandemic. It is rather our own personal destiny and the ones of our family and friends which actually worry us.

 

This pandemic, up to now, has contaminated around 786 000 persons and claimed the lives of about      76 000 people around the world. The numbers are changing daily.

 

Without minimizing what we are experiencing, the average flu season kills more people every year.

This is why we must replace this issue within a rational spectrum, and refuse to fall in the trap of the curse of self-pity. No matter what, everything which hits us in our private lives and our own security, takes the dimension of a cataclysm, may it be a pandemic or a family disaster. 

Several persons that I care about have been infected. Some are fighting the fight of their lives, while for others it is not much more than a bad cold. 

Never the less, everyone is hanging on to the news, alarming contradictory and very approximative.

One cannot help but to try guessing his own future within the statistic released. This amount to nothing more than trying to read tea leaves.

 

Lets protect ourselves like we should, lets not overlook any precaution, and lets not forget that the best coat of armor, never stopped anybody from getting killed on the battlefield. It is the ageless law of the fight, the natural law of life. The society we see crumbling under our own eyes, for attempting to forget it.

Lets anchor down with our own fragilities, and lets keep our eyes wide open. We shall get out of this epidemic sooner or later. If the mortality of this virus doesn't explode upward, the forced immobilization of our societies, will have to be lifted before the end of the alert, because the damages of confinement, the economy, psychology, humankind will certainly outpace the risks of contagion. We shall inevitably have to get out for fresh air.

At that point and time, we shall most likely restart our brains. We shall try to understand what did happened. We shall add-up two and two together regarding thousands of issues which during the panic that has engulfed us, have escaped us, even positive ones. Answers and accountability shall be demanded.

Indeed, while we are watching the statistics coming in, and while we wait for miraculous therapies, it is business as usual, or dare I say worse than usual. Under the guise of emergency, measures are adopted, which shall not be recalled after the danger passed. To the contrary they will determine the future world of tomorrow.

In Europe and elsewhere around the world, laws regarding labor are adapted to the crisis we experience. Politicians have no intention to go back on them. Germany closed its borders to everyone, but to the fake migrants. Why? Are these individuals less contagious? Switzerland, Austria and countless other countries are proposing to exchange your liberties against hygiene. In the USA many governors have made that same choice.Some even go as far as advocating that we copy the social control of the Chinese Communist Party, an absolute totalitarian system, which ignores the autonomy of the individual, and has nothing to do with our western civilization.

In the East the divorce between China and the USA is coming to a head.

In Europe, the same USA is taking advantage of military maneuvers  that have not been cancelled   despite the virus, to re-nuclearize Europe with tactical missiles aimed towards Russia.

Meanwhile in Russia, the regime is becoming more autocratic. Everywhere it is easy to observe that common citizens are being stripped of their rights., of their customs, of their heritage for the benefit of an almighty administration, or those of multinational companies, or of an alliance between the two.

 

At the end of this crisis, millions of individuals run the risk to end up in the streets, many companies shall be out of business, others like Amazon will have prospered like never before. Why should this pandemic not be an opportunity for everyone, and not just for the rich and the powerful?

 

If we must seize that opportunity or at least defend what is already ours, it is not after the crisis that we must do it. It is now, right away. It is time to ask ourselves how we let ourselves be governed by people of such incompetence, of such timidity, such cowardice. It is time to ask ourselves how our supposed advanced healthcare system , one of the most expensive in the world, would collapse in just a matter of days after being faced with this viral epidemic while much less wealthy countries were able to react and procure the basic means for their population? Why is it that the contagion curves climb wildly in the most developed and asepticized countries. It is time to understand why poor Italy was actually helped by China, Cuba and Russia when its own neighbors from the EU failed to act at all. It is time to ask why nine out of ten of the death from this virus across the world are located within the most ultra liberal western countries?

When this crisis ends, the EU will only survive as an administrative empty shell of a past being both irrelevant and oppressive at the same time. Our system of laws will only be a vague memory. Therefore we must reflect now on how we shall protect our liberties and our possessions in such a world, rather than after we shall have been stripped out of everything.

Today we must force ourselves in the present and project ourselves in the future. Fiction writers will have been much more accurate than any of our administrators and all the talking heads. We will come to terms quickly with the fact that we need to invest, not only in our brains, but also in our hearts, our souls, and in all our lives to understand what is actually happening to us. The reason being that our own survival tomorrow might be more costly than life itself.

Do you desire to remain free individuals, actual citizens, rather than a crowd of well behaved and brainwashed zombies? Me too! We must snap out of this state of hypnosis! We must read together, think together, and remain critical and boorish. The masks that we have been forced to wear must NOT become gags!! Pouchkine, the great poet who had to be quarantine during 3 months because of an epidemic of Cholera (which was a lot more deadly that what we are experiencing) did not spend his days thumbing through the obituaries, nor did he wait for the panacea that saves. He took advantage of the situation to produce several dozens of new works. In fact it became the most prolific period of his short life. This is the best recipe to turn honey out of the anguish and bitterness.

We need alternatives to the current media crisis and this time of up evil. We should certainly not act like sheep: At the time when the media system based on advertising is crumbling under our eyes, the thirst for real information, and explanations for the public at large  has never been so necessary.

The trust of the medias who have transformed themselves into spokespersons  of the system shall not survive the fear they have been selling.

I invite everyone to look for alternatives that are serious and honest, and share them with your friends and social media, to raise hell against the screens of big brother.