Saturday 2 May 2020

Covidology VI


I was in the hospital on Thursday following through on the fastest appointment I’ll ever get. Everything fine no problem whatever. The usually crowded plastics department was empty, at a time when lawn mower accidents and hedge clipper events fill every chair. There was a general vibe of ‘phony war’. The car park was quarter capacity, likely staff cars mostly. So my question is: are we prepared or are we preparing to prepare? Can we be getting stuck in a frozen loop and moving towards complete stasis. Is there an entropic governor on society?

‘Doing’, said Dr. Johnson, ‘is the mother of doing’. If we were not preparing and I reject preparing to prepare as preparation, then what were we at? Here come the conspiracy theorists? Ah now lads don’t you know very well that we are all going to be chipped. It’s going to be on your card and you won’t be able to get on a plane or work in a shop without a clean sheet. We are all replicants now.

There are proposed 5 phases:
Phase one – 18 May
Phase two – 8 June
Phase three – 29 June
Phase four – 20 July
Phase five – 10 August

Details here:irish phased planThe insurgent voices ask and they have a point - how are you going to police all this? 'We’ll all be chipped', says Hanrahan, 'before the year is out'.

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