With the 1 year anniversary of isolation, quarantine and distancing coming up, I felt I needed to write something, which gives an idea about the seriousness of the situation in which we find ourselves. People are getting desperate and desperately depressed. Mental health is increasingly declining, and, most importantly, despite the advertised claims of it helping to curb the number of infected cases, we are still seeing an _increase_ in the numbers of infected cases.

How the hell is that possible?

Something is off, something is not right: Either we are missing data on what this virus does to us, or, despite our orders, we are not obeying and still meeting up and therefore contributing to viral spread, or we are being fed false info/numbers (for whatever that reason may be). Personally, I feel the most for option one (about option two, I guess I extrapolate my own behavior to the rest of the population, being home alone since March 2020, and barely contributing to the spread of anything). As things stand unfortunately I have no answers, no means to investigate, no solution. And that is what we need most, solutions, smart solutions, sensible solutions, long-term solutions. None of those we’ll find in the media, which spreads but fear and angst and distrust..

This morning I was looking at myself in the mirror, and I got a flash, a dystopian flash. I saw all of us being persuaded to get vaccinated, the “Cure-All of All Time”. After being isolated for so long, people jumped at the possibility of hope to go back to where we were.. All stayed in quarantine until all were vaccinated.. Then we as a people rejoiced as the measures were lifted. Life was celebrated once more, with parties and gatherings and get-togethers. Then within 2 weeks time, the unbelievable happened.. More Sars-CoV cases.. Massive disbelief and disappointment spread viciously as we returned back to an isolated life. We lived out such cycles for the rest of our lives, until our children didn’t know any other world than one based on social distancing, isolation and distrust, while we as elders remembered a different time.. A time where we hugged, and played and interacted spontaneously, where we could get lost in jungles, and rocky formations or at sea without being tracked constantly. Yet what happened is that we stopped thinking. We all followed the rules. No one objected. It all seemed so reasonable. Yet now, we were having to suffer the pain of our inaction until, in the end, there would be no one who would remember such a world.. (and everyone dies alone in the end anyway right?)

This may read as paranoid and pessimistic, but if, a year ago, anyone would have told me the whole wide world would live in quarantine for almost a year (and very likely far beyond), I would have thought they were conspiracy theorists and lunatics..

What I aim with writing this piece, is not to bring people down but to jolt them out of their respective comas, to wake up everyone.YES! I want to wake you up to understanding, to realism, to scientific objectivity and numbers, to common sense, to ignoring ongoing mass psychosis and media manipulation. I want us all to get together (virtually if need be), and think our brains out of our heads about how we can turn this nightmare around.. Let’s storm the hell out of our brains, because the advertised solution is just that, an advertised solution (as we know for any other product promoted in this way).

Sars-CoV is here to stay, and no matter how many vaccines we will device, it will keep coming.. This time we need a different solution, a clean slate. We need the most creative, the most intelligent, the best experts, the most humane, the optimists, the crazies, all of us working together to find a constructive path into the future before the net tightens and we have lost our game to inaction, depression and, ultimately, time..

Dixit <3 🙂