Taken from eugyppius: a plague chronicle, and not for the first time!
The latest blogpost chimed with me because as a subscriber I was one of those he was addressing: 'Why I don't write about Covid anymore' [LINK].
There is much much more: I hope eugyppius doesn't mind my blogging his write-up; this latest is only for paid subscribers and I am going beyond his blog postscript "it's OK to share it with a few close friends and family, if you want." (my blog readership is far fewer than that hehe). That said I have several times suggested subscribing to the chronicle because despite being a fantastic catalogue of the pandemic years it is also my go-to place for any German news, especially politics where the German politicians seem determined to outdo the mindless stupidity of their French and British counterparts.
Anyhooo: "Now and again, readers who have been with me for years write to express their disappointment that my blog has moved on from the great Covidian menace and that I’ve shifted my focus to German domestic politics and related matters.... "
Covid was one of the most bizarre, terrifying and openly irrational social and political psychoses that many of us have ever seen. It changed my life forever, and it did the same for many of you.
"This is because the political systems that generated that insanity are very much not in the past. They are still with us. All the ingredients that made the unusual Covid purgatory possible are still there..."...a priestly expert class that can sanction literally any state intrusion via liturgical invocations of The Science; a bloated and extremely complex bureaucracy that nobody understands and that is internally well-networked enough to be subject to disturbing social contagions; and a powerful, elaborate state with tentacles reaching all the way down into every last personal electronic device."
"That is the real story of Covid"
Well worth reading in full, you'll need to subscribe but it's worth it.
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