Covid 19 – The Hero of Fear
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I asked a group of friends recently, if they would consider writing a few thoughts down for inclusion in this collection that I stumble along with.
Below is the first response that I have received from a woman in that group – Sophia C.
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Someone asked me recently, if asked what would I like to write as a piece for the website blog?
And I replied,
Well, there are so many pressing problems in the world, that vast, just too many to contemplate in a short burst on that web page and so I thought more in the minuscule of my own life story. Then as if a revelation, something came into my mind space about religion in this twenty-first century Westernised world.
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I thought, what are the many Westernised types of religious beliefs, understandings or notion of a God or super hero in peoples own life stories?
Perhaps a super star as in the Western Movie legend of old or present Sci-Fi version or comic legend. But then I began to question what is the most prolific religious base at present and it began me thinking of this present pandemic COVID 19, the hero of fear.
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Then, I began to think of how this plays out over a century or two to come if that is all it takes to put us into a locked down mode of fear and isolation.
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Fear and isolation.
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How do we overcome something as small as a global pandemic of a virus that has claimed many lives, but of which on the whole we have simply no idea the extent in comparison to a normal so-called pandemic of say, Ebola?
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Or is it that we have forgotten that the major fear should revolve more around nuclear war and the fall out of what is occurring in the “undiplomatic” Western dialogue with those considered of lesser than a supposed democratic stance?
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So what do I consider worth a blog page burst? Well, it would have to be necessary to include the religious base of everyone’s Westernised view of life and that of the sacredness of a life, their own and family too. Perhaps that may also extend to a few very special friends or other family members such as dogs perhaps. But in the main I would have to say that the most famous impact of this present time would have to be fear of isolation and the thought of death.