What the f… !
Taken while on an illegal walk.
During all my years at school and also when talking to some older people, for example my dad, when they came up with terrible stories from WWll I always had this “...oh my God here we’re go again” feeling. Young punk, you say. I always thought why did they all not just do something against it, if it was so terrible.
What the f... !
I know it’s the past, who cares in times where we all sit cosy at home, Netflix the hell out of the wobbly internet, enjoy our virtual life and tell ourself that this is not so bad, we just don’t go out. Finally we even have time to bake something.
While the yeast in the dough works, let’s get updated with stories, graphs and numbers about infection, fear, danger and death, let's get sad, depressed and feel almost guilty for breathing normally.
What the f... .
My friends, sorry but I have to disappoint you now, we human beings die, we are not made for an eternal life and now even some expert on Twitter told you. Cool graph, by the way.
Ohh I can already hear the roar of the masses getting scandalized. How can he write this? Yes, you my friend back there, yes you, the one who smoked all his life, also in my face by the way, one day you will go. And also you, mister macho who drove drunk with three people in the car thru the town like a rocket, yes you too, you might even take someone with you. Ohh and then we have the lady here, all perfect, smart and nice, well you also, you will get old, wrinkly and then you will get an artificial hip, maybe even another one and one day because of a broken leg and a pneumonia instead of limping around here you will fly up there. Now let us all repeat it:
What the f... !
Now that we have the right mood let’s talk about what’s going on today. Viruses, bacterias or fungi they are part of our life, they are around us and also inside us, in a certain way a lot of them are even keeping us alive and protecting us, although some are harmful and can be deadly to us. You can name these kind of harmful infections how you want - influenza, Covid, streptococcus, it doesn’t matter if we have a healthy working immunsystem and a helping medicine if needed, our body will fight them to survive and hopefully win, otherwise bye bye! I know:
What the f... !
Every year we have 10.000s of deaths as a result of the influenza, the flu, a simple flu harmless for the most of us, but deadly for some who are weak or old or both. Their body just can’t fight against it.
We have 10.000s of nosocomial infections and deaths because even with all the possible attention our health care workers have, we sometimes can’t avoid a simple infection, it’s just too common and, yes, if you are over 80 and break your femur and finish in a hospital, the chance of you saying hello to your creator is high. So again:
What the f... !
So what do we do? We have recruited an army of doctors, biologists, health experts, nutritionist experts, all these qualified people are working for us and with us to study, cure and sometimes prevent deadly outcomes, to make our life longer, better and pain free. They are supposed to keep us save.
Wait, hey you back there how come you still smoke and sit on the couch instead of jogging around the block with a piece of healthy celery in your mouth?
What the f... !
Don’t get impatient ok, your dough still needs some time, stick with me. So, we mainly try to cure diseases, prevention is a trade off, a compromise and this makes it way more tricky, as we all know. Just think about a healthy diet or daily exercise. This might be an important point here.
What is going on now? We hide, we get told to sit at home under “arrest” to stop something, frankly, unstoppable, and please don’t tell me that we have “to flatten the curve” because it’s mathematically impossible. So, the only prevention of a mild disease has become a withdraw from life itself. We prevent dead by stopping life. Ok?! Cool concept. Help me, we are still the same sugar addicted, smoking, drinking, parachuting, climbing, lazy fat people or not? So...
What the f... !
So the solution is a dubious type of prevention which itself is unhealthy, mentally, but also physically. We need fresh air, movement, sunlight for vitamin D synthesis etc. but we wear gloves that stop our skin from working properly in fighting pathogens, we cough into a mask at work instead of having a week at home with a hot tea. You do know that putting an older person on the couch for a month is a crime as they degenerate very fast and it's a long way of recovery afterwards, if ever. This solution is bad especially for the older population, the kids and the weaker ones of our society. Being outside is the healthiest thing you can do 'cause this way we are all getting immunosuppressed by law. Looking after our mental well-being is important, we are risking the only organ we need to rely on - our brain.
What the f... !
Nonetheless, we all sit at home and don’t even speak up loudly, we accept these rules as if this is the only way to deal with a problem. We even do police work on each other controlling, spying and reporting. Great! You know what? Now I know why almost nobody has spoken up during the WWll, how things got so far with millions just keeping their mouth shut. It was just a different virus.
What the fuck!
What’s the fear?