Journaling the Coronavirus (COVID19) Pandemic, Reflection #47
April 28. 2020
The first glimmerings of distant troubles, coming on the heels of the virus assault, and the assault on the public by fearful leaders to this disease.
Testing and the immunity question. Testing, which is likely to become mandatory, will break society into two groups; those who have had the disease and are now immune, and those who have yet to be exposed to the virus and wait their turn to run the gauntlet. That’s the physical part.
The social part could become problematic. Those who are deemed to be immune would have full freedom to do whatever they wanted and go wherever they wanted, just like all citizens could before the advent of the virus. Those who do not have the antibodies, through testing, that indicate they have had the virus will be relegated to a lower order of citizen humanity. They will be allowed to do about what most Americans are being allowed to do right now…almost nothing.
Today this division isn’t there but it is coming. When voluntary obedience to the rules does not work, and this holding the public is complete frozen check isn’t going to work either, for much longer, then enforcement will not be far behind. In Hawaii, citizens are being invited to turn in friends, family, and neighbors if they have been required to self-quarantine for three weeks and are not obedient. If they leave their quarters for any reason, they are reported the police are called. Special non-police proctors have also been brought aboard (presumably immune) to enforce the quarantine regulations. No comment has been made yet about how to repair relationships totally destroyed by this process. This is the stuff that seems to be coming.
How do we prepare for it? Who would have thought that hospitals would begin to fail because nobody will go there anymore and there are not enough virus patients who need hospitalizations to replace those who used to go? With tough treatment after testing, who is going to go there and get tested? The government can’t even count its own citizens accurately much less get them all checks.
How is it going to monitor who has tested and all the results?
Your thoughts and suggestions are always appreciated.
All the people who took genealogy tests to figure out if their ancestors really came from Spain or Sweden or wherever are right now being cross-indexed with Coronavirus test results and case outcomes. That information will be paid for and processed by health insurance companies, and premiums will adjusted accordingly by very smart actuaries whose job it is to never let their loss ratios go upside down. Credit scores, DNA profiles, social contacts, environmental exposures… all charted for every citizen more precisely than anybody dreamt possible 30 years ago. Millennials don’t know the difference and still don’t recognize the danger.
Your instincts are good, and I appreciate your voice, sir. Please keep calling them like you see them.
Part of the looming nightmare that is going to haunt everyone living in this country for the rest of their lives…join me…https://www.gofundme.com/f/thirty-days-has-september
Semper fi,
Jim
There are 3 other groups: the false positives who will feel invincible and not follow guidelines and get infected, the pre sick and the sick who are shedding tons of virus, and and those who have had the virus but for some unknown reason cannot produce enough IGG antibodies so they are labeled and confined with those who haven’t had the virus, possibly infecting them. Watch “Containment” series on Netflix if you don’t want to sleep at night!
Yes, the avalanche of bad news remains without peak, so far. Since nobody wants to pay real attention to the numbers then we can all
wait a bit for the real numbers come crushing down, and those won’t be numbers of dead coming out of treatable cases going to ERs. The hospitals across this
country are emptying out of patients, here down sixty percent, because nobody will go anymore. Why take the change of being infected when you know where the
infected people go when they are in trouble? The reality of economics will bite deeply soon unless something is done, and the stimulus is not something to
speak of even for those who get it. The small business money was all ‘stolen’ and this new chunk of change will be the same. The Los Angeles Lakers got millions,
as did Harvard and Shakshack and Ruths. Why Ameirca will not rise up and close these businesses and institutions permanently is beyond me.
Semper fi, and love you kid…
Jim
Perhaps it is time to remember why this country was established, and why we are a constitutional republic.
“…. the U.S. Constitution make it clear that we the people are the sovereigns in our system and that those who serve in government are our servants. It is improper and self-defeating to call resistance to an unconstitutional act “civil disobedience.” When our government servants violate the supreme law of the land (and therefore the people’s will), it is they who are disobedient, not us!”
( source https://www.texasfreepress.com/post/texas-lockdown-never-again?fbclid=IwAR1XZEaRWx-T1lK2upPlOA1yCNtCMN-Z2TKzyDRJQYcl67K-7q0mltAdCVE )
Spot on Ken!!!
Semper fi,
Jim
I really hope this doesn’t come to pass, of it does we are no better than those who lived through Hitler, the segregation of the past in the US. I don’t believe our country as we know it would survive all of the hate, mistrust and anger that would become prevalent. I do hope this doesn’t come to truth. Hopefully we are above this and come closer as happens after 9-11.
We are above this, but the players of darkness are not and I fear they are involved.
The U.S. has been taken down at least five pegs in a ten peg world system. And it has been
done with only the loss of 50,000 or so dead, and it has been done almost overnight.
The poor, other races than white and infirm and old people have been struck like
could not have been imagined at any prior time. Like 911, this is brilliant in conception
as it has been smooth in execution. In order to succeed, however, it must be immune from
discover and factual revelations. What an interesting time to live in. Whom would have thought?
Semper fi,
Jim