More demons
Nov. 29th, 2020 02:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
goldrustsI know it's the result of a lifetime of watching shows such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Charmed and Supernatural, but I always expected an apocalypse to have more vampires, demons and forces of darkness... surely at least a zombie or two?
And how much worse have things got to get before Jesus returns? Is our need not great enough for King Arthur to come back to us (although what Arthur could do against a viral pandemic, I'm not actually sure)
I don't mean to make light of the COVID-19 situation. Everyone I know, myself included, has been personally affected by this pandemic, have lost someone dear. One of the things I love about my generation is our use of black humour to cope - something new and dreadful happens and we ask who had whatever it was on their bingo card, something science-y happens and we're all 'no, put it back, not in 2020'
It's strange, I've always loved a good viral outbreak storyline in a TV show. To this day, one of my favourite episodes is the NCIS episode SWAK where DiNozzo gets pneumonic plague. Any episode where's there's the threat of an outbreak of something like weaponised ebola instantly grabs me.
I've also said things like the world needs a good plague to help ease the burden of overpopulation
Living through one really isn't quite the same. It's nowhere near as fun. And I am struggling to fathom the selfishness of people, I always want to see the good in people, believe that humanity is decent but 2020 is making me doubt that. It's not like we're being asked to do anything hard, we haven't been conscripted to fight in a war; just asked to stay home, wear a mask if you have to go out. I know it's frustrating, and we're all feeling fatigued and stressed but that's how it's going to get us - when we relax our protections, we open ourselves up.
My boyfriend Jonah and I have been saying for a while, as horrible as this statement is, the we don't think enough people have died. That we need to see death rates like that of the 1918 H1N1 pandemic, where 1/3 of the population died. We need 10s of millions to die before people realise that it is a threat, it is real, it does have to be taken seriously.
For now, I just want to get through to the end of 2021 and hopefully 2022 will see us finding a new reality out of the other side of this.
And how much worse have things got to get before Jesus returns? Is our need not great enough for King Arthur to come back to us (although what Arthur could do against a viral pandemic, I'm not actually sure)
I don't mean to make light of the COVID-19 situation. Everyone I know, myself included, has been personally affected by this pandemic, have lost someone dear. One of the things I love about my generation is our use of black humour to cope - something new and dreadful happens and we ask who had whatever it was on their bingo card, something science-y happens and we're all 'no, put it back, not in 2020'
It's strange, I've always loved a good viral outbreak storyline in a TV show. To this day, one of my favourite episodes is the NCIS episode SWAK where DiNozzo gets pneumonic plague. Any episode where's there's the threat of an outbreak of something like weaponised ebola instantly grabs me.
I've also said things like the world needs a good plague to help ease the burden of overpopulation
Living through one really isn't quite the same. It's nowhere near as fun. And I am struggling to fathom the selfishness of people, I always want to see the good in people, believe that humanity is decent but 2020 is making me doubt that. It's not like we're being asked to do anything hard, we haven't been conscripted to fight in a war; just asked to stay home, wear a mask if you have to go out. I know it's frustrating, and we're all feeling fatigued and stressed but that's how it's going to get us - when we relax our protections, we open ourselves up.
My boyfriend Jonah and I have been saying for a while, as horrible as this statement is, the we don't think enough people have died. That we need to see death rates like that of the 1918 H1N1 pandemic, where 1/3 of the population died. We need 10s of millions to die before people realise that it is a threat, it is real, it does have to be taken seriously.
For now, I just want to get through to the end of 2021 and hopefully 2022 will see us finding a new reality out of the other side of this.
the crud
Date: 2020-11-30 01:26 am (UTC)It's amazing (and incredibly frustrating) to watch people fail over and over again to comprehend that no one ever claimed that this disease had a 100% death rate or that it progressed instantly. I've seen so many people completely dismiss the numbers when infections go up (pointing out the low death rate or examples of people who contracted it and fully recovered) and then they act SHOCKED when a few weeks later the death rates start climbing. It's been predictable all year. When the infection hits a new area, a few weeks later the death rates go up. And people act shocked EVERY TIME. It's so infuriating.
My cousin was diagnosed and recovered and his grandmother got sick at about the same time (but never got tested, so we're just making the assumption based on her proximity to him). And she is now very dismissive of it because she had it and is fine now despite being in the high-risk age group. And I just want to scream at her. "Yes! Yes, we know most people recover; you haven't proven anything shocking."
In a weird way, I think fewer people total might have died if the initial death rate had been higher. We just can't seem to get through to the "it's just the flu" crowd because it's not quite scary enough to them.
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Date: 2020-11-30 04:29 pm (UTC)Yeah. *sigh*