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
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