In times of hysteria and panic, when people fear for life and limb, irrationality runs rampant.
The corona virus is just one danger to human life, like many others: traffic accidents, cancer, AIDS, malaria, Ebola, poisonous snake bites, wild animals or, as in earlier times, the plague. For the fearful, the world is always full of deadly dangers.
Two things are often forgotten. Firstly, man is man’s worst enemy and secondly, life has never been without risks, dangers, wrong decisions and death as the ultimate consequence.
And the repression of the fact that death is part of life sometimes leads to striking absurdities:
- The assessment of the Covid19 virus as relevant to humanity
- The exaggerated and sometimes pointless measures to contain a dangerous virus that is by no means relevant to humanity
- The misjudgment of the effectiveness of the measures taken
- The hubris of being able to control the environment / nature as desired and have it under control
Death awaits at the end of every life. The only question is how and when the end will come. And this was individual and mostly unpredictable before Covid19 and will remain so after Covid19.
So basically nothing changes with Covid19. Only the irrationality of human actions, driven by fear, increases dramatically.
