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Coronavirus Is Great

 

Coronavirus is great!

We take our welfare for granted

It’s all very comfortable and dull

We get sick and we kill it with an anti-biotic

We are in no danger, no big war in our precious western world, nothing to threaten our existence…

Well not any more

 

Coronavirus is here and you might just get sick

You’ve been making a retarded show out of your health and fitness — but now it’s for real

Excellence is a habit

You might get sick so you better stay healthy so you just might learn how to do it

Eat your fucking vegetables

Stay lean and strong

Eat your antiviral and antibacterial herbs

Get that broccoli shake running and that curcumin paste and that ginger tea

Get those bones moving and your blood flowing and your muscles working, like you’re not dying yet, not rotting yet

Get some air and some sun like a living creature which you are

You may just get healthier not sicker

You may just learn to be healthy

Now it’s for real

 

Coronavirus is here and we may just have a fucking recession! (are we?)

Actually it’s great

All our nonsense activities are peeling off

Maybe we peel off to the bare-bones of necessity — without all the vain distractions and undue conveniences

It’s not a loss to economy if it was unproductive in the first place

It’s not a loss in your private life if it wasn’t necessary in the first place

 

Coronavirus is great

We were running around pretending we’re so busy and serious

Now there’s nothing left to pretend, no act to play out, no boss to impress — either you’re productive or not

Chip away the nonsense!

Do something useful

 

We have ALL the tools we could EVER need

We have the army of robots. We have unlimited access to information. We are 100% connected anytime anywhere.

We don’t really use these tools. Not enough people build clever machines and not enough people have ideas what machines to build. Not enough people code and not enough people know what to code.

Well now you can’t just bustle about the office, shuffle papers, print stupid reports and show cat videos by the water cooler. Either you’re productive or not! Do something useful.

 

Coronavirus is great

Finally a real threat to rally against

We might just learn something

Collectively

Individually

If you don’t want to get sick you need to take your precautions

If you don’t want to go broke you need to stay productive

Will you be intelligent?

Will you be cautious?

Will you be ingenious?

Some of us never plan more then single day ahead

Now you do need a plan

 

And the same universal principles apply as when tackling ANY problem:

don’t think black and white

don’t appeal to compromise either

don’t ever identify with sides, ideologies

be skeptical not cynical

be open-minded not critical

be overprepared but never in panic

relaxed but careful

do your best rather then gossip

with your daily life

and in times of global catastrophes

we were always bad at acting (good at talking)— but most of us are pretty bad at thinking too

perhaps we may just learn something during that crisis?

it’s entirely up to you

 

PS

If you lost someone or your life has been turned upside down — please know that I feel for you.

Please also know that this is real life, and you take it as it is.

…and then it still ends with death!

It’s all the same. For you and me and our close ones.

Wipe away your tears. Not in a callous way but in an accepting way