Life in corona times
These are interesting
times..wait..that might be a bit of an understatement, but you know me, I am
the master of the stiff upper lip and the take it on the chin brigade. Anyway, what’s
interesting about times like these is the absolute certainty amongst certain
segments of the population that death is going to come for them pretty soon. Well
for people like me who have always walked under the shadows in the valley of
death (well I love that phrase and was looking for a place to use it for ages),
well for people like me, death was always on the horizon and never a distant
possibility and precisely for that reason I had made my peace with it a long
time ago. It was only the manner of my death which used to puzzle me not the certainty
of it. Well, the corona virus scare seems to have offered a clear indicator of
the way the wind is blowing. Death by pandemic- it has a majestic ring to it doesn’t
it? A bit sinister but still majestic. You
wouldn’t want to die a humdrum death, would you? You want to die gloriously? Die
fighting that evil bastard of a virus particle, that scourge of our times, the
black plague of the 2020’s, the Sauron of China called Sars-covid (Wuhan = Mordor,
getit?). To go up against all that is evil, to fight one glorious last battle
for all humanity and then to die cheerfully, that’s what defines a man, doesn’t
it? To stand up to be counted when its all death and gloom and the orc armies
are beating at our doors. So, blow the bugle comrades and let’s go out to face
the evil that is threatening to erase all humanity from the world. If we fall here,
we fall for the glory of all humans, to preserve our way of life and our independence,
even if we end up as a piece of statistic about the millions who died. Even if
our light is extinguished here and now, the light of all humanity shall burn
bright and be preserved for the future ages. March on, with or without us.
