Are you like me?
If you are, then you’re also growing very, very tired of worrying. I worry if my almost 61 years on this planet will be easily snuffed out by walking in the path of someone’s sniffle???
I want to get tested for antibodies because I think I had a very mild case of Covid in early December. My sisters and I spent a long weekend in New York right after Thanksgiving. And I came down with a cough, an intermittent low grade-fever and some minor bronchial discomfort. I hope I have had Covid anti-bodies swirling throughout my body. The thought that I might have gotten ill courtesy of some snotty, stubby nosed blood sucker…
…that was either served as dinner to some Wuhanian nincompoop who loves the hustle and bustle of China’s ‘wet markets’ and who has a gastronomic jones for flyin’ rat’s.
Or….
Was some of the virus released from a test tube by accident or “stolen” for a nice little profit from some security lapsed test lab in Wuhan? I can imagine their motivation. “Let’s cull the global herd”, rid the world of the old and undesirable.
I mean, let’s face it, a bioweapon is the poor, lazy, tightwad terrorist’s nuclear weapon. It’s relatively cheap, requires little to no manpower, very, very effective and does all the work for you. It can bring once enormous economies to their knees. So what if a 40-50 thousand thousand people die in the process???? Collateral damage equals acceptable losses.
So, do I really think Covid-19 a bioweapon? I’m no epidemiologist, but I’ve played one on radio. In my limited knowledge of things, after covering (from afar) the many chlorine gas attacks on the Kurds and others by Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, near the town of Aleppo (that city always made me think it was the name of a long lost Marx brother), if you add in the speed in which Covid spread and how vast and far-reaching it’s been and of course, how lethal it’s been for so many, then yes, I’d say it has all the earmarks of being a weaponized flu. A pneumonic, if you will.
If this is bioterrorism, they’ll get it “right” next time. Meaning, it could be much worse. This might have just been a test run to see what some evil overlord can do, can’t do, wouldn’t do or shouldn’t do with a mere portion of a vial of extremely infectious miserable death.
It’s either that or I might be thinking too much and going a little nuts.
Still, I’m rather proud of myself for exhibiting such discipline in not leaving my house. But to be honest, it really hasn’t been that hard. It feels like a serial killer/psychopath is on the loose and the cops don’t know who he is or where he’ll strike next…..or who he’ll attack next.
Your best defense is to stay inside and not give him an opportunity to turn you into a crime stat.
So, yeah, I give Covid a very wide berth. I suggest you do the same. In fact, I may never shake another hand, give a hug or take a sip from a glass of someone’s delicious beverage ever again. And I fear I’m rapidly becoming that person who will file charges against someone who carelessly coughs or sneezes anywhere near me. Snot, boogers and loogies are now considered weapons of mass destruction.
But farts are still safe. Thank God.
I’ll leave you this inevitable marketing strategy.