{"id":9069,"date":"2020-04-01T10:20:20","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T04:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/?p=9069"},"modified":"2020-04-02T18:44:44","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T13:14:44","slug":"notes-from-lockdown-virus-pandemic-panic-outbreak-and-moron-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/notes-from-lockdown-virus-pandemic-panic-outbreak-and-moron-apocalypse\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes from Lockdown:\u00a0Virus Pandemic, Panic Outbreak and Moron Apocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.\u2019 ~ Aldous Huxley, Brave New World<\/em><\/p>\n

I wish to be light hearted \u2013 satirical, ironical and even humorous \u2013 in this essay \u2013 as we experience and endure the unprecedented 21 day lockdown.<\/p>\n

But I wish to be insightful as well \u2013 make tragic observations and raise serious questions \u2013 as I take you on a journey, while recalling Fyodor Dostoevsky \u2013 whose novel Notes from Underground<\/em> has inspired part of the title \u2013 who memorably said, \u2018I don\u2019t know how to be silent when my heart is speaking.\u2019<\/p>\n

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Our current existential situation is more Kafkaesque than post-modern. The world is a dark comedy \u2013 loony and gloomy \u2013 with oppressive, absurd and nightmarish qualities, accentuated by social media algorithms.<\/p>\n

The crux of the matter: we are guilty of being alive; so we have been sentenced to a 21-day imprisonment to save ourselves from dying.<\/p>\n

The bizarre circumstances are so dystopian that even the simplest of human impulses \u2013 such as to take a walk in Rabindra Sarovar amidst soothing greenery and gentle waters of the lakes, while watching and hearing the migratory birds who have flown to the city from Siberia, Mongolia and Tibet \u2013 is a gross act of negligence, terror and crime.<\/p>\n

Defying house-arrest is an act of war.<\/p>\n

A granny going out to look for glucose biscuits to feed her favourite neighbourhood street dogs is as threatening as a brainwashed lunatic about to detonate a suicide vest.<\/p>\n

Granny is a bioterrorist.<\/p>\n

Public sneezing is like releasing weapons of mass destruction.<\/p>\n

Catching a cold or getting a fever means being condemned to self-isolation like menstruating women in medieval times.<\/p>\n

Coughing loudly can compel the vigilant neighbours to summon the police with the hard evidence of a video recording.<\/p>\n

Handshake is radioactive. Untouchability is the social norm. Wanderlust is illegal. Human being is a bio-weapon.<\/p>\n

Amidst all this, East Asian features are sparking racism, xenophobia, prejudice and violence.<\/p>\n

If this goes on for too long \u2013 living in the state of pandemic, global emergency and \u2018lock-step\u2019 scenario \u2013 the new phrase and idea imported from the US \u2013 \u2018social distancing\u2019 \u2013 might save our body, but it will kill our soul.<\/p>\n

Things might not go back to normal and a new paradigm will begin to emerge as the \u2018shut-in economy\u2019 as military drones and armoured vehicles patrol the streets to supervise daily life; and advanced spywares in your phone monitor your every breath.<\/p>\n

The \u2018shut-in economy\u2019 will cause large-scale disruptions and new opportunities. But our minds will keep wearing hazmat suits, our fears won\u2019t disappear due to sanitizers, our faces will remain covered by masks and our social life \u2013 everything associated with any gathering that imply the \u2018human touch\u2019\u2013 will crumble and collapse.<\/p>\n

The civilisational crisis has brought the world to a crossroads; things will either go towards the good or towards the bad; but it won\u2019t return to the pre-pandemic world.<\/p>\n

The age-old choice between saving the body or the soul is now translating into the choice between two types of democracies or governments: pro-corporate technocratic authoritarianism or pro-people sovereign constitutionalism.<\/p>\n

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Thirteen confirmed deaths \u2013 out of Covid-19 (either S or L strain) \u2013 put 1.3 billion Indians under total lockdown, when the \u2018slowdown economy\u2019 was already in shambles.<\/p>\n

The latest death count \u2013 on 31 March \u2013 is 32.<\/p>\n

The last pandemic in 2009 \u2013 the H1N1 swine flu \u2013 is estimated to have infected over 1 billion people worldwide and killed between 200000 to over half a million people around the globe.<\/p>\n

But the corporate media wasn\u2019t running a \u2018death ticker\u2019, \u2018celebrity infections\u2019 weren\u2019t \u2018breaking news\u2019, doomsday fatality scenarios \u2013 predicted by dodgy \u2018scientific\u2019 models \u2013 weren\u2019t being widely publicised, \u2018factory-produced\u2019 heart wrenching stories \u2013 with common motifs, emotional colour and key words \u2013 weren\u2019t being over-supplied by an array of global publications, the planet wasn\u2019t under shutdown and billions of people were not put under imminent economic devastation, livelihood collapse and mental health catastrophe.<\/p>\n

Let us leave aside the conspiracy theories (but not to consider them with an open mind is laziness, cowardice and stupidity).<\/p>\n

Let us assume that the virus pandemic and the panic outbreak are natural; and by that I mean they are not meshed up with strategic geopolitical aims, not a 3D chess move for a total system reboot, not a hybrid bio-warfare gone out of control with an unexpected blowback, not an accidental leakage from a viral lab run by a nation\u2019s military, not an elite agenda \u2013 de-population, forced vaccination, mandatory RFID implants or human-implantable capsules, one world currency, one world government, corporate totalitarianism and more \u2013 being pushed as per a diabolical plan of world domination, not a \u2018live exercise\u2019 of mass conditioning from the pages of a social engineering project where we are the unsuspecting lab rats of a nefarious experiment or an opportunity \u2013 opened up by a random crisis \u2013 being deftly exploited by the shadowy creatures of the global deep.<\/p>\n

Let us ignore what Noam Chomsky \u2013 while talking to DiEM25 TV on YouTube channel \u2013 pointed out that \u2018Event 201\u2019 (supported by World Economic Forum and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that simulated a global pandemic exercise stemming from a novel zoonotic coronavirus in Oct 2019 that coincidentally happened in the US on the same day when the Military World Games started in Wuhan) wasn\u2019t followed up by any real action or institutional preparedness that could have nipped the Covid-19 infection, instead of allowing it to fester and become a global pandemic.<\/p>\n

Let us suspend the above and also not wonder whether \u2018viruses are the new terrorists\u2019; and whether a series of them are already on the way to mark a new era of \u2018War on Virus\u2019.<\/p>\n

A global war where each and every one of us is a potential bioterrorist: carrying Covid-22 or Covid-26 or Covid-35 and so on, and capable of destroying the world with a sneeze.<\/p>\n

Let us not speculate that for the moment, and become completely paranoid while imagining the consequences. Otherwise we might have to imagine a new version of \u2018Mad Max Fury Road\u2019 where \u2018post-human-savages\u2019 with apocalyptic masks are living as \u2018hunter-gatherers\u2019 in nuclear wastelands while the elites hole-up in five-star bunkers in the Antarctic and New Zealand.<\/p>\n

Let us leave all those ideas away for the time being. Let us just understand the following \u2013 the most obvious \u2013 with precision:<\/p>\n

The capitalism virus with the virulent neoliberal strain \u2013 Capita-Neolib-420 \u2013 has already forced \u2018fully-privatised corporate-controlled governments\u2019 around the world to drastically cut public health-care and enforce austerity or reduce welfare spending, and this has exposed the vulnerabilities of our health-care system \u2013 with insufficient beds, facilities, equipment and professionals \u2013 to deal with a sudden pandemic.<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t have enough of everything that is required, and the system can be easily overwhelmed and over-burdened.<\/p>\n

So instead of quarantining the sick or the most vulnerable, everyone \u2013 including the healthy \u2013 has to be locked away.<\/p>\n

This is only one of the numerous adverse effects of Capita-Neolib-420 that the world is already infected with, from which the elites only have total immunity.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why a completely irrational lockdown appears to be a rational response. The surrender of the fundamental civil freedoms is welcomed with wild applause. Draconian laws of control and surveillance are quietly passed without protest. The large-scale anti-neoliberal and anti-establishment movements \u2013 from Chile to India \u2013 get dissolved and disbanded. Consent is manufactured for more invasive screening, control and quarantine.<\/p>\n

And lastly, to obediently suffer the masochistic whippings by sadist authoritarian governments \u2013 without empathy or care \u2013 seem to be the most desirable act of civil pleasure.<\/p>\n

The current maddening situation strangely looks like the virus-induced holocaust world of \u201812 Monkeys\u2019<\/em>: \u2018wackos everywhere, plague of madness\u2019.<\/p>\n

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Things are so bad that the lockdown \u2018cure\u2019 that will be more damaging than the \u2018disease\u2019 is accepted by most of the world that has been panicked beyond control by the one-sided hysterical propaganda \u2013 with deliberate omission of all counter-views \u2013 being dished out relentlessly by the corporate mainstream media (MSM), troll farms and well-crafted algorithms.<\/p>\n

Our contemporary Howl <\/em>would begin like this: \u2018I saw most minds of my generation get destroyed by the media, screaming hysterical sinister, dragging the world into convulsion and madness.\u2019<\/p>\n

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Let us consider this most vital information: \u2018Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses of which few can only cause deadly disease in human beings. SARS and MERS \u2013 both coronaviruses \u2013 caused outbreaks in 2003 and 2012, after which they haven\u2019t resurfaced. <\/em><\/p>\n

OC43 is another member of the coronavirus family that causes a form of common cold. <\/em><\/p>\n

So coronaviruses though similar in their shape, form and properties have a wide range of effects on our daily lives and not all coronaviruses cause lethal disease. <\/em><\/p>\n

Covid-19 is a coronavirus related to SARS-Cov2; one has to be Covid-19 positive to suffer its effects \u2013 in varying degree as per one\u2019s immune response \u2013 that primarily damage the lungs and respiratory functions. But the patients have a high recovery rate if they are not suffering from other ailments. (99% of those who \u2018died from virus\u2019 in Italy, had other illness) <\/em><\/p>\n

So if one has a fever, cough and cold due to OC43 coronavirus and goes for a test for \u2018coronavirus\u2019, then it will come positive. <\/em><\/p>\n

But this is not Covid-19, but one of the other benign coronaviruses which can be detected in a human being at any given point of time. <\/em><\/p>\n

So testing positive for cornoavirus doesn\u2019t mean testing positive for Covid-19.\u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

In spite of the above, those who are testing positive for \u2018coronavirus\u2019 is being grouped together with those who are testing positive for Covid-19. This is inflating the number of detected cases and creating a false perception about the transmission.<\/p>\n

It is still not clear whether anyone has developed a reliable test kit to detect Covid-19, or are they simply looking for cornoavirus that is very common in human population?<\/p>\n

Whoever is equating coronavirus or \u2018novel coronavirus\u2019 to Covid-19 is spreading disinformation and panic; and this includes various corporate MSM outlets.<\/p>\n

When the British PM Boris Johnson said he has been tested positive for coronavirus, many MSM outlets reported falsely and irresponsibly by saying Covid-19.<\/p>\n

The question is, whether the spreading of the false equivalence between \u2018coronavirus\u2019\/\u2018novel coronavirus\u2019 and \u2018Covid-19\u2019 is being done deliberately, or due to gross incompetence, neglect and ignorance?<\/p>\n

All this makes the crisis appear as fishy, bandicoots begin to be smelt, actions of the governments look suspect and a feeling of something odd persists in the mind, while we accept the high-pitched alarm amidst a heavy stagnancy in the air that feels grim, eerie and hostile, like a haunting.<\/p>\n

We have little choice. We have to consign ourselves to the stressful lockdown \u2013 alone or with family members, whom we get along, or don\u2019t \u2013 trying to survive out of bare essentials, dealing with increasing suffocation, trying to avoid domestic squabbles and preparing for catastrophic socio-economic consequences, while thinking of \u2018stay at home\u2019, \u2018break the chain\u2019, \u2018flatten the curve\u2019 and \u2018save the world\u2019 when a large percentage of the poor, the unprivileged and the daily wagers are literally on the road, staring at destitution, displacement and starvation.<\/p>\n

Not only the farmers, working class and the unorganised sector will bear the most severe blow due to the lockdown, the middle class \u2013 already choked, burdened, indebted and trapped in neoliberal web \u2013 will also get bludgeoned.<\/p>\n

Bankruptcies, salary cuts and dismissals \u2013 affecting wide-scale demand, consumption and investment \u2013 are inevitable. Many will metaphorically fall off the cliff, without any parachute.<\/p>\n

\u2018Saving the world\u2019 by actually destroying most of it, seems to be the present consensus.<\/p>\n

Talks about the worst global recession in recorded history have already begun. In that case the big predators \u2013 the banks and the corporations \u2013 will grab the largest share of the \u2018bail-out\u2019 or \u2018stimulus\u2019 packages, while some crumbs and leftovers will be thrown at the rest, for propaganda purpose.<\/p>\n

Preliminary studies \u2013 after observing the recent shocks \u2013 are predicting an abyss: a potential holocaust through economic and societal collapse.<\/p>\n

Some also arguing that we are caught between \u2018death by virus\u2019 and \u2018death by economic collapse\u2019. So a hard decision had to be taken; collateral damage will occur; pagan Babylonian blood sacrifices under the full moon will have to made.<\/p>\n

The present consensus is, the lockdown is meant to arrest the virus transmission that potentially can go out of control, and cause a more severe economic catastrophe in the mid, or long term.<\/p>\n

But World Health Organisation (WHO) \u2013 if you trust it \u2013 says that lockdown without extensive testing isn\u2019t enough; one has to find the infected and isolate them. If this is not done, then the chain can start again; the contagion can continue to recur in spurts.<\/p>\n

In that case, I fear, several cycles of \u2018social distancing\u2019 may be forced upon us through the next couple of years.<\/p>\n

Rumours are already floating around about lockdown extensions. We might be conditioned to accept isolation, live fragmented lives, be agreeable to the shut-in economy\u2019, obey every government dictate, view all fellow humans with suspicion and drop all plans for the revolution.<\/p>\n

It becomes imperative that we will have to ultimately organise to defy and resist \u2018social isolation\u2019 and \u2018lockdown life\u2019 if it goes beyond the immediate need, and threaten to recur again and again in guise of safety, security and preventive cure, with a sinister agenda to service power, profit and social control, than to genuinely help us to restore normal life, human rights and constitutional freedoms.<\/p>\n

India has opted for the \u2018Western\u2019 strategy of lockdown, but in the most draconian and harshest manner \u2013 in spite of the low spread and negligible fatalities \u2013 instead of the Asian strategy (exemplified by South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Vietnam, outside of China) of mass testing, contact tracing and isolating the infected at an early stage that has worked really well due to quick action and dogged professionalism.<\/p>\n

While we are experiencing the first lockdown without fully knowing how things will transpire, we know for sure that the \u2018death by economic collapse\u2019 would be far more devastating than \u2018death by virus\u2019, whose present kill rate \u2013 in spite of all hype, images of coffins in stadiums and suspicious spinning of unreliable data \u2013 is still less than a \u2018normal to severe\u2019 season of influenza.<\/p>\n

Going by the mushy reactions induced by corporate media, fake news industry and social media meltdowns, many sentimental souls don\u2019t seem to know that people actually die!<\/p>\n

Over 150000 people die every day, and many thousands do so due to respiratory and lung conditions; and up to 650000 a year perish due to seasonal influenza.<\/p>\n

This is as normal as thousands of daily deaths due to malnutrition, violence and starvation on a planet \u2013 that is still getting scarred, exploited and plundered by neoliberal capitalism, neo-colonialism and imperialism \u2013 where 70% of the population live under $10 a day, and the top 10% hoard 85% of the global wealth.<\/p>\n

No names and images of those deaths are flashed on our screens on a daily basis.<\/p>\n

If this was done so, and the seasonal influenza figures also flashed hysterically on all screens along with heart-wrenching narratives, images and videos, then \u2018Planet Lockdown\u2019 would have to be made a permanent feature of human civilisation!<\/p>\n

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2020 has thrown up a scenario that used to be in the realm of dystopian science fiction.<\/p>\n

But the crisis shouldn\u2019t be viewed only as a virus pandemic; then the scale will appear as minuscule, when the bubonic plague killed over 200 million around the globe.<\/p>\n

John Lee in The Spectator<\/em> points out \u2013 in an article titled \u2018How deadly is the coronavirus? It\u2019s still far from clear\u2019<\/em> dated\u00a0 March 28 \u2013 \u2018On a global basis, we\u2019d expect 14 million to die over first three months of the year. The world\u2019s 18994 conronavirus deaths represent 0.14% of that total. These figures might shoot up but they are, right now, lower than other infectious diseases that we live with (such as flu). Not figures that would, in and of themselves, cause drastic global reactions.\u2019<\/p>\n

He also drives down the clincher, \u2018If a new infection is causing many extra people to die (as opposed to an infection present in people who would have died anyway) then it will cause an increase in the overall death rate. But we have yet to see any statistical evidence for excess deaths, in any part of the world.\u2019<\/p>\n

But where will the \u2018excess deaths\u2019 come from? Even if one contracts Covid-19, 95% of the infected people recover from home with no medicine; 5% need hospitalisation and 1% need ventilator. And the virus surely doesn\u2019t appear as lethal as Pai Mei Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique.<\/p>\n

In the March 2020 chart by Centres for Disease Control, WHO that maps \u2018Disease Deaths\u2019 per day worldwide, tuberculosis tops with 3014 fatalities; Covid-19 \/ Coronavirus is presently placed at 17th<\/sup> position \u2013 just below Yellow Fever \u2013 with 56 fatalities.<\/p>\n

In 2018, 10 million fell ill with TB and over 1.5 million died. We never heard a word of it on any media platform.<\/p>\n

Now \u2013 on 30 March 2020 \u2013 worldwide Covid-19 fatalities have risen to 33,976 in roughly four months. (Compare this with 30,000 to 55,000 fatalities per<\/em> month due to seasonal influenza, and much more due to pharmaceutical drugs and medical error: the two categories we never hear about, or told to fear)<\/p>\n

Setting aside all the doubts about the veracity of this official number \u2013 whether coronavirus positives have been added with Covid-19 positives or whether people have also died with<\/em> the virus and not<\/em> because of it \u2013 the figure hasn\u2019t even reached anywhere near the scale of the swine flu pandemic of 2009.<\/p>\n

It might do so, and even exceed that; we don\u2019t know as of yet. It is also not yet clear, whether the world has started to crumble due to a lethal spook or a funk, instead of a lethal virus.<\/p>\n

The other big question \u2013 are we also witnessing a moron apocalypse, unable to see light in the actual data, falling to a spook, imagining the worse, chaining our freedom and destroying the global economy in the process \u2013 also cannot be answered at this moment.<\/p>\n

But the possibility of that remains alive.<\/p>\n

We also have sufficient signs, omens and coincidences to consider few of the \u2018conspiracy theories\u2019 \u2013 mentioned earlier in the essay \u2013 with utmost seriousness, while we try to make sense of it all, and try to see through the fog.<\/p>\n

In midst of everything, the realisation \u2013 \u2018fear has been blown out of proportion\u2019 \u2013 is also gaining ground. I would like to add \u2018deliberately\u2019 at the end of the sentence, with a clarion call to probe further to understand who are actually benefitting from all this mayhem and madness.<\/p>\n

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Going by the official figures of infection and low fatality rate, many are still unable to find the sure-fire justification to shut down the global economy: a monumental action that is more perilous \u2013 than the virus pandemic \u2013 for the majority of humanity who live on a \u2018day-to-day\u2019 and \u2018pay-check to pay-check\u2019 basis.<\/p>\n

To extend the nationwide lockdown in India beyond 21 days could be counter-productive; the tottering economy must be re-started and given a genuine well-planned boost; or else, we are likely to face unimaginable horror.<\/p>\n

My final conclusion is that the monumental crisis is not only about Covid-19: the \u2018life or death\u2019 calamity has been caused by a combination of factors rather than by one single cause.<\/p>\n

The \u20182020 Crisis\u2019 of modern civilisation has been created by the convergence of various key elements: the virus pandemic, the media hysteria, the panic outbreak, adverse effects of \u2013 what Chomsky calls \u2013 \u2018neoliberal plague\u2019: the ruthless anti-people socio-economic policies of neoliberal capitalism, dodgy decisions by the power elites, delayed responses, disproportionate counter-measures, total lockdown, planetary emergency, impending worldwide recession, emerging mental health epidemic and prospects of shortages of supplies, displacement, eviction, starvation, destitution, food riots, civil unrest, draconian clampdown and military rule.<\/p>\n

In midst of all this, we all have to do our own thing. The foremost task is to keep ourselves sane and humane.<\/p>\n

But things have already started to crack up. A friend\u2019s friend \u2013 who pointed out that even a jail has a courtyard \u2013 wrote on social media that he has started to feel claustrophobic in his apartment that he is sharing with five other family members and nasty quarrels have started to break out.<\/p>\n

Another friend \u2013 who lives alone \u2013 tells me, she rather get infected by that \u2018damn virus\u2019 and fight off the super flu or the pneumonia by trusting her body to create the required anti-bodies, than being \u2018holed up\u2019 in her studio apartment for weeks without meeting her closest circle and fearing getting beaten up by the police if she dares to go out to buy basic essentials.<\/p>\n

Another reveals, most of her contacts are getting totally \u2018jacked up\u2019 financially and have no real savings or support to fall back upon.<\/p>\n

An aunt is having an emotional meltdown witnessing the tragic humanitarian crisis of the migrant workers and has lost her appetite.<\/p>\n

Neighbours of an acquaintance have started to behave cruelly with an elderly grandfather \u2013 who is being ostracised like a leper of Biblical times \u2013 because he has a common cold!<\/p>\n

We have been put under a stern test due to this crisis.<\/p>\n

Psychosis, paranoia, desperation, anxiety and depression are spreading much faster than the virus transmission.<\/p>\n

To keep oneself healthy \u2013 physically, emotionally and spiritually \u2013 is perhaps the greatest contribution one can make, during these maddening circumstances.<\/p>\n

My survival strategy \u2013 amongst other things \u2013 will include readings of the works of the stoic philosophers: the kindred souls of the past will be the most useful companions under the agonising circumstances of the lockdown.<\/p>\n

See you on the other side; stay safe; stay sensible.<\/p>\n

Slate coloured clouds have gathered all around us. We will have to live within<\/em> a storm. This may go on for a while. We won\u2019t be the same when it\u2019s all over. Take good care.<\/p>\n

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[The views expressed belong solely to the author, and may not reflect the opinions of the editorial team]<\/p>\n

[Cover Photo: Illustration by Jonathan Wolstenholme]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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