Yes it does, but it is a virus...worse than some (mostly because it’s so contagious, but not even close to as bad as many that society has faced down through the years.
The virus is like many others...it’s society that has changed. Society - the mass of our population- has been trained for decades by this relatively new tool the mass media and by “professional experts” to fear. To fear, period. One thing or another. And to accept. Accept what “the experts” tell us about the reality of the universe we live in. They trained us fear that which they can benefit or profit from and accept that which they can benefit or profit from.
We’ve lost,, largely, our understanding that the world we live in is a dangerous place and life is not about safety and security. If you get lazy and fat and do things that will develop a heart issue, just about anything can and will kill you. But we are also risk averse to the extreme and don’t want anything bad to happen even if we make ourselves lazy and fat or we grow old. Hell, we are so averse to risk and are so litigious when bad things happen to us, we’ve created the profession of risk management - every organization of any size has this department to tell the company’s management what to be afraid of. We are so afraid and removed from the reality of the world we live in (Hell, most of the Left only believe in subjective reality anyway: reality they make up right off the top of their head) that all we can do is turn over our existence to the “professional experts” and live in a communist system.
Rant over.
“the world we live in is a dangerous place”
If you are under the age of 55, you don’t remember the Hong Kong flu in 1968. It was our last big outbreak. So a lot of the population has no experience, being seriously ill with something like this. I had mononucleosis my freshman year in college. My temp hit 104+, it was tough time. But now I know what being really sick feels like.
Somehow, during that year of the Hong Kong flu, we managed to have Woodstock. Nobody complained.
“We are so afraid and removed from the reality of the world we live in...”
So true.
I said months ago that not only are they using the exaggerated danger for the socialist revolution but also for the transhumanist revolution.