A genuinely odd exception
I was unnecessarily and wastefully thinking about the holocaust as usual.

Chain of thought:

If the whole world hadn't decided to use this virus as the "justification" for killing everyone, the virus itself wouldn't have hit the news at all. Hospitals have a vast array of facilities and trained people ready to handle annual epidemics. They were already handling this one quietly and calmly until the monsters decided to kill everyone. The virus would have made a brief cameo appearance if it killed (not infected, KILLED) some important celebrity. That's normal in a soap-opera world. Only celebrities count. But in fact it DIDN'T kill any celebrities.

And that's the odd exception. This holocaust breaks out of the normal soap-opera rules. Many existing celebrities tried to barge into the publicity by claiming that they were "infected", which normally wouldn't have made news even in the world of fans. Flu doesn't make news. They didn't gain much traction, so they stopped claiming.

Only people who were ready to die died. The age pattern of this virus is identical to the age pattern of life, peaking at 84.

But no important people were killed. Not even any old formerly important people.

There is a celebrity aspect. Monsters posing as "doctors" and "public" "health" "authorities", both national and local, climbed onto the bandwagon and became instantly famous AND INFINITELY POWERFUL by giving the killers total "justification" for total genocide.

Several years ago, in the context of the vastly smaller "climate" genocide, somebody asked Christopher Monckton what drove scientists to violate all the rules of science. He answered "Money, power and glory."

Concise and terse. But money isn't the main thing. Power and glory are the main things.

Labels: Carbon Cult, Jackboot stomping forever

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