A Mirthless World

We all – quaint and unlucky humans – run like crazy people covering our faces with masks and our hands with gloves, rejecting handshakes because we don´t want to caught that nasty swine flu. That specter appeared in Mexico letting our more troubled fears come to life. We don´t want to fly anymore – at least not to Cancun – we don´t want to use public transportation or hang out at enclose spaces – at least for Biden.

As this influenza fret with deadly 24/7 appearances around the news media, governments around the globe deal with uncertain policies in order to prevent a wide spread of the disease. China – with a roughshod standing – persecuted Mexican citizens and stripped them of any rights to freely travel – they even had trouble getting back to Mexico.

The WHO rapt response to the crises was not enough to prevent the hysterical response from several governments that pursued resolutions that hoped to close all traveling from and to Mexico. The US president decided against such measure by saying that it is too late now; the virus already crossed the border so it will be unwise to do that.

As we travel around the globe we may take the influenza from Mexico to Hong Kong in a matter of hours, when we convey for viruses we also make it impossible for authorities to control the spread of a disease. We grill to travelers at airports victimizing the innocent as well. But there may not be much of a choice for authorities desperate looking at preventing a pandemic that could disrupt our daily lives.

Some ludicrous journalists underestimate the imminent threat that we face when a new virus surfaces and mutates. If we only had panicked at AIDS when it first appeared, we may not be losing that war right now.

The influenza is a powerful fiefdom that stopped normality and created – for the time being – a chaotic climate that shutdown Mexico for an entire week. Many countries like China wreak visitors with such panic that Mexicans look like terrorists carrying bombs. The over coverage of the news media is also threatening. We are seeing – gladly – that nothing major have happened, and this could pose a terrible precedent for a future outbreak of the flu. Next time we could be lulled and let the influenza spread and kills many more, and then the pessimistic will rise in “glory”.

This appears to be the case right now, lots of people jeer to what they call “excessive” coverage of the virus. If our current measures turn out to be a life saver – and no more throe appears upon us – then we will put down our guard and be much more vulnerable next time.

In any case we did not see derangement as you might have expected from such deadly monster. A complicate matter though, is that this virus pads around us all the time. Dead from regular flu stands in the thousands every year, this new virus has not caused that many dead but has the power to do so.

Flu medicine was also running out in every drug store around the world. Even when they are useless to prevent or control the new influenza, people crawl around begging for some pills. The appearance of flu peddles was just the new underworld business appearing in third world countries. One thing that came up was that people may have also wanted not to look sick, cause coughing or sneezing was the new ugly, and if you were “kind” of sick at the airport there was a good chance that you may spend several days in quarantine at the local hospital.

What dreg we have left after this whole freak episode is that we have no clue what wager will eventually appear in the future. Any disease that attack the young and healthy is much more likely to cause wide spread panic upon us. Comely people tend to be self assuring that with good health many well known illnesses won´t hit them. If they are part of a cultural virus target, then a spiral of chaos will rise.

We must be careful not to let this virus hit us with fury in the future. We know from past experiences that it comes in waves, and those usually appear months after the first group of people were affected. Even when we feel knackered with all the nasty media coverage of this issue, we have to be careful when our guard is down. Being miff is the one thing that will cause the worst case scenario to become life threatening.

One of the reasons that scientist judge as correct, is that the virus has not adapted to humans, therefore it is not lethal in the way that it could be after it hit us for the second time. Irate citizens must comply to a common denominator in the future, a world with lots of panic and virus that may or may not become a pandemic. We will see this type of schizophrenia disemboweling our daily lives to the point of becoming a grueling lackadaisical routine that will change our world.

The world as we know it is coming to an end.