The crowning achievement of this particular corona

in response to the themes in:

http://drmalcolmkendrick.org/2020/07/25/covid-fear/#comment-172025

Indeed and well said.

The crowning achievement of this particular corona is in appropriating almost any and every cause of disease and death or potential infection that risks outbreaks of disease and death, to its novel and mutating threat - against which we are powerless and clearly need to lock ourselves into a global biosecurity state by which to make us safe. (Populations can become resistant to being put down). Its all a no brainer.

I have read of canine coronaviral antibodies in flu vaccines resulting in cross reaction with our own antibodies on meeting the conditions that tigger a 'coronaviral response' or 'infection' (which may be the immune response to toxic insult an not 'the disease').

I have also read of attempts at previous coronaviral vaccines where the 'success' of antibodies produced by vaccine cross reacted with the 'condition in the wild' - with very serious and or fatal results.

Invested narratives are very dangerous and can be contagious as a masking over truth by emotional reaction. While Panacea can evangelise itself as The Answer, the rush to escape, avoid or eradicate our fears can generate a psycho-pharma-drama that then reflects all our ungrounded fears and conflicts back to us. The capacity of a false belief to hijack a 'self' is self-evident - but invisible to its host.

Stepping back to observe the 'corona event' as a whole shows that it has a great deal of active support. How much of which is the unwillingness or extreme refusal to face our fears?

'Don't let the truth get in the way of a good story' could hold a deeper truth in terms of a compassionate embrace of our human foibles, but when a 'cover' story is set against a true disclosure and account, in demand for sacrifice of truth for the sake of a narrative deemed 'politically' necessary by the vested interests of the day, then a mad story has possessed the  mind of its own maker. As a mask that locks around its wearer and wont come off - come hell or high water!