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Corona-virus Paranoia.
As of this writing, there are more than 2 dozen deaths across the USA.
I’m sure more people will get sick. I’m sure more people will die.
I’m as sure as this as I am sure that some poor bastard fall into a sausage grinding machine and get churned up into chum.
Sooner or Later.
It’s human nature. People are dumb. Some will die of a virus. Some will get ground into sausage patties.
INEVITABILITY.
TWO DOZEN DEATHS.
HORRIFIC.
Nobody should ever die from a virus named after a beer that can only be consumed with a splash of lime.
While dozens of virus deaths in the USA is sad, it’s not exactly a massacre.
Compared to a ballistic hail storm peppering Vegas concert goers outside the Mirage, the Corona Virus is killing in slow motion.
But the Corona Virus is front and center, leading every newscast.
Makes me wonder. There are so many ways to die that people absolutely take for granted.
I’m way more scared of dieing on the interstate.
Distracted teenagers weaving in and out of traffic at 85 mph.
A big rig trucker falling asleep behind the wheel of a lumber truck.
Either of these high mobility schmucks has higher mortality potential than the Corona Virus.
You have a better chance of being killed by a bowling ball dropped by Bugs Bunny riding a lit fire cracker.
So why are people freaking out?
Why are all the cleaning supplies gone?
Why has sad ass humanity suddenly learned to wash their hands after they tinkle, after they cough?
Were they raised in a barn?
And come to think of it; why are Australians fighting each other over toilet paper in the aisles of their supermarket?
What connection does the Corona Virus have to your ass?
People love to freak out, to worry, to hoard stuff.
Could it just simply be that humans are weak minded and want to worry about things they cannot control.
It could be that an invisible virus, that few understand, that floats across the globe like a demon spawn created by Stephen King, truly is something to fear.
But the Corona Virus could also be a manifestation of media malfeasance coupled with human stupidity.
I won’t apologize for the news media. They are slithering whores when it comes to sensationalizing volatile topics that pander to the common man.
Stay Calm, they will broadcast while setting the screen on fire with amoeba creatures that belch sickness across a petri dish of promotion.
The news is voraciously consuming stories of Corona Virus. News managers hunt for the demon seed so they can spin a tale of informational woe.
Event Cancellations. Human Contaminations. Self – Quarantines.
These buzz words are now part of the lexicon of pernicious tweets and facebook lives.
The media now broadcasts every sniffle.
News crews do phoners with miscreants who have a stomach ache and clammy skin.
I heard a woman rant that she is so sick and nobody will test her.
Then she mentioned that she was determined to have the regular flu.
She didn’t want to have the regular flu, apparently. Perhaps there’s No Sex Appeal in a regular, plain Jane flue that routinely kills 10’s of thousands of Americans a year.
Nope, we don’t hold press conferences for the regular flu. We don’t break into coverage because someone crapped their pants or coughed up a lung because of the real flu.
This woman was certain she had the Corona Virus. She she wanted to vent publicly about poor testing and lack of testing kits. She went on and on.
She seemed eager to have the Corona Virus.
Why not? It’s a unicorn of a disease that commands attention.
Everyone from John Q Public, to the media, to politicians want to mount this sexy, scary beast, and ride it into the phloem stained sunset.
I saw recently in Tennessee, that the 11th child died of the regular flu.
11 dead kids. Regular Flu Deaths.
There was no fist fights in Wal Mart?
There was no bathing in purell gel.
There was barley a mention on the local news.
A child died of the regular flu. The same flu that will inevitably kill 10’s of thousands of Americans this year.
Yet, nobody gave a damn.
Whose to blame for this cataclysmic life failure?
I blame uneducated fear mongers with a smart phone and no conscious.
They get in chat rooms and pontificate and stew in cesspools spreading fear and gossip.
Every new case necessitates a breaking News TWEET.
Where are they from? Who did they touch? Who did they breathe on?
Did they wipe their ass? Did they blow their nose? Did they say a Hail Mary before they banished themselves into self isolation?
A runny nose and a sour disposition is now fodder for an ER visit.
God Forbid there’s a mucousy cough in a public place.
The police will be called to cordon off the lettuce aisle in Kroger.
Scuttle that live truck to another random neighborhood in fear, or on Corona lock down.
What do you think the breathless reporter will ask the dumb ass know-nothing 2 blocks away.
Did you know him? Did he look clammy?
Are you scared the wind may blow in this direction?
While tens of thousands of Americans continue to die as they are suppose to from the regular flu, a very few people in the USA have died from the Corona Virus.
Some people die. Sadly, It’s life.
These are the same people who will walk off the side of the Grand Canyon, their heads down, texting a co-worker about a bad burrito in a dirty microwave.
Some people die.
It’s inevitable.
Darwinism.
The herd must be thinned.
Perhaps the Corona Virus is the next great elixir of death.
But I don’t think so.
I think people are making a mountain out of a bacteria filled mole hill.
I don’t remember the Monkey Virus creating all this paranoia.
Ebola would literally liquefy your guts from the inside out.
You’d melt like the bag of flesh you are and then crap out your soul.
Nobody freaked out then.
So why so much fear now?
Is it politics? Is it the Kabul I hear so much about?
He who controls the message controls the masses!
Here’s what I know.
The virus is real.
The virus makes some people sick.
The virus will kill some people with compromised immune systems.
But the fear, the paranoia? It’s just human nature.
Misery loves company and this is a globally accepted pandemic of fear-mongering.
So wash your hands and get off social media.
You’ll be happier and live longer.
The Corona Virus.
It’s all in your mind.
Life’s Crazy™