In the 21st century, many people are no longer directly affected by the daily struggle for survival. In this class, life is organized according to artificially created social rules that have grown regionally over thousands of years.

These rules are not questioned and are lived intuitively to a greater or lesser extent by each individual. They indirectly ensure that survival is secured. Money, relationships, power, to mention just the core elements. Of course, these rules are more multi-layered, more complex, more opaque.

Nevertheless, these rules can be recognized and questioned. From everyone. However, since these rules directly affect the quality and indirectly the duration of survival, they are part of the humanitarian problem: life and survival are almost never questioned. Even death is ignored for as long as possible.

On the one hand, this behavior is understandable, as it is deeply ingrained in humans as a survival instinct. On the other hand, the degrees of freedom of the mind make it possible to reflect on one’s own construction and to question one’s own behavior.

Of course, it is much easier to accept the status quo and ignore the potential of hidden opportunities, which is why very few people see the status quo as a problem. The status quo of someone trapped in an artificial social construct and the corset of basic instincts imposed by nature, who wanders aimlessly and without a plan in a world that despises and destroys humanity and only the fewest benefit from this man-made construct.

It takes a good deal of self-deception not to rebel against this perfidious system of rules and not to try to create a new one in which all people can live self-determined, fair and peaceful lives in harmony with nature and in perfect symbiosis with the rest of life.

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.