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paleotn

(18,012 posts)
3. Can't cheat the virus, pilgrim....
Sun Sep 20, 2020, 03:30 PM
Sep 2020

It doesn't care what we believe, our politics, our religion. It doesn't care how we feel...happy, sad, frightened. It doesn't care if we're tired, quarantine weary, board or just irritated. It doesn't care about our freedom, our lifestyle, our history or our ethos. It just replicates. That's all it does. And if it kills us during that process of replication, so what? Its only care is not to kill us too quickly before it can spread to another host.

When you strip away all the human stuff that really exists only in the gray matter between our ears, controlling Covid-19 isn't complicated. Limit your personal contacts, wear a mask, keep your distance, wash your hands and isolate those infected until their infection runs its course. Rinse and repeat until a vaccine is available. Add the human stuff back in and it becomes infinitely more complicated, with humans being humans...incredibly stupid.

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