The Great Plague
9th July 2021
Severian points out some inconvenient truth.
One thing a lot of us here noticed straight off about the Great Plague was that, if it were anywhere near as bad as the doom-mongers insisted, certain parts of the world were in real trouble. India, for one. Same deal with places like Mexico — huge, crowded cities, no medical infrastructure to speak of. Even Japan, we badthinkers hypothesized, would be screwed, since even though their medical care is first rate, their population density is ridiculous, and totally dependent on public transportation to boot. Same thing with the homeless population right here in the USA — if the pandemic is real, guys like us said, then the homeless problem is going to take care of itself…
None of that happened. The Media did briefly try to gin up a panic about India… at the start of summer 2021. That is, a full 15 months or so after the initial panic. This was right when the buyer’s remorse was really starting to set in in re: Totally Legit Joe, and while correlation isn’t causation, I think we can go ahead and assume in this case. But as to Mexico, Africa, Asia, the US homeless… not a peep, and unless things like “living in a garbage dump” and “living exclusively on spam and bum wine” give complete immunity to COVID, that’s all the proof you need that the thing was a sham from the get-go.