Experiencing the Corona virus(COVID-19) Pandemic as a Kind of Zombie Apocalypse
now that i have been home and not able to do anything besides watch tv its getting kinda boring and since that ive been wondering off on the internet.If one looks up the 2003 sars outbreak on the World Health Organization’s Web site, one sees descriptions that are very like those for this new corona virus, which is a close relative. Symptoms (respiratory distress), sources (bats, civets). This go-round, the term “sars” has become simply “the corona virus” (a general virus listed on the can of Lysol, which kills 99.9 per cent of germs); Trump has tried to call it the Chinese virus, because of the Wuhan tie. Regardless, it is sars again, mutated only slightly. Why no medicines were developed for the first sars virus, why no wartime effort was brought to bear on it back then, remains a mystery (though in 2003 the Bush Administration was very busy invading Iraq).
Meanwhile? We are in the zombie apocalypse, which my friends have been writing about for well sometime, so young people are mentally prepared. Is a virus not a kind of zombie, a quasi life-form moving in and out of inertness? It is zombie time: the virus can’t be transmitted when all of its hosts have died. So we are all social-distancing; that is, pretending to have died, lying very still, so the virus won’t get us.
But such weird non-zombie sadness in the world! As we work remotely and remotely work and others lose their livelihoods entirely. Who knew our socioeconomic structures were so flimsy? On our laptops, we spend a lot of time participating in group e-mails and Zoom parties and solitary tours of YouTube. Perhaps, like me, you to listen to music or watch anime or any other tv show.
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