What time is it?

[James Doran]

Gentle persons:

This Covid - 19 fiasco is not an indictment against everything human or everything American. We can go down many rat holes for the expression of a catharsis of our darkness. It feels good to bitch.

Yes, America can do amazing things. I have seen it and participated in it. I know we can not only design and manufacture the "test-kit" but we could distribute it to every man woman and child in America, if not the world, within two or three weeks from today. It could have been done two months ago. Someone, something or the lack of someone or something, is preventing the test-kit from being utilized.

While conspiracy theories are entertaining, the real answer is a complete lack of leadership. Not just the Donald Chump but the Republican "leadership" and even such people as Bill Gates. Too much hesitation. Lack of courage. Fear of repercussions for doing anything. Asleep. Numb. Shocked into a paralysis. That is why I say "wake-up"!

As this drama unfolds I see that the intuitions of what is happening slowly get revealed as the truth. 1) Inequality of care. 2) Economic opportunism. 3) Political manipulation. 4) Incoherent communication. 5) Overt control of the test-kit manufacture/distribution. But I do not yet understand who benefits by this inability to respond in any credible fashion? Who wins?

Everything shall be revealed. Mark my words. We will learn that this entire fiasco started with the militarization of the Covid in a laboratory in Wuhan where an accident occurred. Maybe the cleaning crew spilt the juice on the floor. Maybe an assistant left a vile on the microscope. Human error. Ockham's Razor.... human error is the most likely answer.

It is not naivete to expect that the creative genius and exceptionalism of America will rise to the occasion. It will. But this dark inertia has to be destroyed. If you are an American reading this, vote in November (if the fascists will allow an election) and get your friends out to the streets and to the polls. What we are experiencing IS the direct result of passivity. The human community is calling you to "wake up".

James