Once upon a time, man did not even know that these tiny animals, viruses and bacteria exist, and that they actually kill him when he is killed by what he calls plague, cholera or some other plague. He did not know them because he could not see them, since for them simple eye sight was not enough: one had to somehow rise above the then maximum of "obviousness".
Since then, man has learned, invented, found out, understood everything. And what threatens him and what kills him, and how to fight against it. Now man sees something as tiny as a bacterium and a virus, and not only does he see it and knows a lot about it, but he also learns very quickly how to oppose it, again and again. No matter how impatient we are, isn't it fascinating that in just a few months, science has created solidly reliable vaccines against a previously unknown infectious disease?
And yet, the contagion is not abating, neither locally nor globally. Life has more or less stopped in the most advanced countries of Europe and the world. The hard "lockdown" shakes Germany, France, Britain, Spain... Oh, they're all alive. And yet, the corona continues to rage with unrelenting intensity. One would perhaps dare to think that there might be a problem in the way of fighting against it, i.e. that as a global dogma, the generally accepted lockdown is equivalent to trying to deal with a mosquito using a Kalashnikov (and maybe a cannon and a tank), and then you're surprised how it always eludes you.
In other words, the lockdown has been checked and proven "doesn't work". Stopping human life doesn't stop the virus - it just makes human life more miserable, in every sense. And the virus finds its way... However, the only answer to the failures of those who manage our lives is: if the lockdown doesn't work, then we need even more even stricter lockdown. If the virus doesn't go away when you lock people up for twelve hours, lock them up for fifteen. If that's not enough, make it twenty. I just wonder how they will overcome the limit of twenty-four, when the earth day simply does not offer more?
This spring, Serbia was among the world's champions of lockdown: we were locked up by the unforgiving Lord of Contagion, and he wailed for days, less about us and more about himself, until he forgave us for arresting us. Later, he wanted to do it again, so he recalculated a bit, and since then he is much more careful, but that's why many people throughout Europe and the world have followed his path. The contagion of authoritarianism, arbitrary tinkering with our lives, a crazed meritocracy that has the repressive resources of the state at its disposal, has spread on all four sides, with consequences that are thousands of times more dangerous than the damage that can be caused by such a simple creature as a virus. The result: someone who fell asleep only a year ago, would not recognize the world in which he would wake up today. He would only be horrified to realize that he had found himself in a dystopia, in the world that the most perceptive minds of the last humanist era warned him about. And as, because he was in hibernation, he maintained a healthy and uncontaminated social instinct, as he did not have time to be trained by day and night instilling fear from an invisible enemy, he would be much less afraid of the virus itself, and much more of those who protect him from the virus, believing that such a role entitles them to anything they can think of.
The current state of affairs in the global prison (where, unlike classic prisoners, you don't even have the right to a date for serving your sentence) is such that a small, hidden cell on the southeastern edge of Europe called Serbia is one of those in which one of the mildest even rules. regime of serving the sentence, but let's be clear, the principle is the same everywhere, everything else is nuances. Such as shades of nonsense and what the local branch of meritocracy does, which assures you with a dead-serious expression that something is important and means something whether the cafes are open until eight, five or two, or that it's really OK to watch a movie in the cinema at seven, but it would be disastrous to watch it at nine. And you, what are you going to do, you pretend to believe in all these idiotic things, because you understood a long time ago where the source of fear is, where the real danger is: not from viruses, but from humans.
In other words: the virus will disappear one day one way or another, but the society it will create, in fact, that it has already created, will be terrible. And with the approval of many who pleasantly surprised themselves with their capacity for enthusiastic acceptance of the Abnormal.
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