Meltdown

If we could sustain the distinction, and distinguish clearly between the virus from bacteria white from black , Ebola outbreak in Africa from coronavirus in New York how things might have been? The contagious from touch disinfectant from clean profane from the sacred, the dead from virus on surface. And before the end   finger-printing from secure isolation from segregation, Flat from the curve from fat off the curve. The schism and prism that adds to an ism. Arrest the endemic crisis within the system to reach and match the scale of the pandemic. In other words the social from distancing, before the cast of the invisible appears as translucent visible matter. If we all could sustain and enforce the distinction, and mark off the interim from measures the process from final Who knows, how things, could have been.

NASA and its scientists, the saviour of humanity know that the planet is reeling under a virus attack? How I miss the images of Hollywood films! Wish they were real. Earth's natural magnetic field shifted and for months world's strategic-scientific-navigational folks were clueless. They might have known since flights reached their destinations, ships anchored home, strategic and commercial launches and satellites found their orbits, passengers and goods reached their locations, so on and so forth. WE WERE NOT TOLD about it. If, coronavirus affects humans only and other life-forms animals and plants are immune to it, then, that could be a defence as well and maybe, we need not wait for 60% of human population to get infected. For countries like China and India and many in this Indian subcontinent and elsewhere, the 'herd immunity' is the plan by default. Have we forgotten population density, the limits of social distancing? Social distancing through stay at home is t...