03-13-2020, 10:47 PM
Qom is... the Shiite Rome, so to speak. Religious pilgrims often include some horribly-unhealthy people, people intending to get as close to God as possible just like everyone else. Visit one of the holiest shrines sick and you put others close to something that can hasten fellow pilgrims' progress to God. Sickness and death can hasten that progress.
In a way, CORVID 19 is far more hazardous than the infamous HIV/AIDS. HIV/AIDS could not be spread through coughs and sneezes. We know how HIV/AIDS got spread, such as tissue grafts, needle pricks, blood transfusions, sex, and IV drug use. Tissue grafts and blood got tested. Health professionals took care to treat used needles as weapons to be disposed of with due care. Sex? People started using condoms. Today the most likely source of new HIV/AIDS in the First World is IV drug use... this said, addicts are infamously reckless. (There is one particularly-disgusting way to spread AIDS, much more common where superstitions flourish, and I have no desire to discuss it).
CORVID-19 can be spread by the usual ways by which the common cold is spread. If one survives it one there could be lasting consequences.
In a way, CORVID 19 is far more hazardous than the infamous HIV/AIDS. HIV/AIDS could not be spread through coughs and sneezes. We know how HIV/AIDS got spread, such as tissue grafts, needle pricks, blood transfusions, sex, and IV drug use. Tissue grafts and blood got tested. Health professionals took care to treat used needles as weapons to be disposed of with due care. Sex? People started using condoms. Today the most likely source of new HIV/AIDS in the First World is IV drug use... this said, addicts are infamously reckless. (There is one particularly-disgusting way to spread AIDS, much more common where superstitions flourish, and I have no desire to discuss it).
CORVID-19 can be spread by the usual ways by which the common cold is spread. If one survives it one there could be lasting consequences.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.
