05-06-2020, 01:13 AM
Now, Classic X'er, do you recognize how insidious COVID-19 is? Organic damage is not to be treated flippantly.
This disease can bring about death in unexpected ways, and even if one recovers one may have crippling sequelae. Such is in ways parallel to the influenza pandemic of a century ago; it shortened life in some who ended up dying unusually young of such consequences as kidney disease.
We have largely been discussing political and economic consequences. You seem to recognize well the hazard of scrapping an economic paradigm to which you have gotten accustomed for personal safety from a dangerous disease.
Big Business is ahead of you. Business as usual can kill us.
This disease can bring about death in unexpected ways, and even if one recovers one may have crippling sequelae. Such is in ways parallel to the influenza pandemic of a century ago; it shortened life in some who ended up dying unusually young of such consequences as kidney disease.
We have largely been discussing political and economic consequences. You seem to recognize well the hazard of scrapping an economic paradigm to which you have gotten accustomed for personal safety from a dangerous disease.
Big Business is ahead of you. Business as usual can kill us.
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.