We are all sick enough now. Time for an Antivirus. The over-response of remedies are worse than the disease.

Around the year 2000, I regularly went to the Bistrita province in Romania together with fire brigade colleagues from Herzogenrath, Germany. We did an exchange program with each other for years. Growing by sharing. Many friendships arose and ... still exist.

A fixed point in our visits to Bistrita was that we were always welcomed with what the Romanians called their 'Antivirus'. Here a picture of a similar drink. However, the Romanian snaps came in some sort of Coke bottle, had almost 80% alcohol and yes ... indeed didn't please any virus I guess. Good and happy memories.

I had to think about it when I started writing this blog. Aren’t we all sick enough now of all the implemented measures related to a virus? If you are not physically ill from this severe flu, then you will become ill because of all the measures and rules that make you more than sick in another way. The 'side effects' of these policies are not nothing.

Unimaginable damage is done. Lost work, bankruptcy, no face-to-face contacts, loneliness, tourist sector and hospitality industry flat, economy (except for a few) down, panic and above all ... fear. And we are only talking about a virus and the 'difficult times' we have ended up in (or are they being done to us I sometimes think).

As if we have ended up in a kind of cheap horror movie (and this movie isn’t yet finished).

Are the, well-intentioned, measures to get a new virus under control all together not a bit overdone and above all overtaken?

I heard that in the Netherlands even the army is using drones to check whether you are walking in the forest with more than two people. Bizarre and rather terrifying. It should not get any crazier and what is going to be invented for the future. Is there really no one who can put a stop (or have the guts to stop) to this excessive policies?

And yes, we need to work on a European (perhaps worldwide) plan as exit strategy for the lock-downs. Sad to see how EU member states are involved. It must have been a lifestyle stream presentation. Difficult to speak for a theater without audience by the way.

Social media, sentiment (the emphasis is on people dying) and political following and movement are doing 'well'.

And of course, there are always companies and organizations that earn money on it. For example, people who work at 3M can certainly count on a high end-of-year bonus after the overproduction of mouth masks (that do not protect a lot). And the online delivery services are certainly doing good business as well.

Gasoline prices are suddenly low, rents from an Airbnb sometimes drop to 50% and there are plenty of other examples to mention.

And working from home, which was a lot of hassle about when I was director, will soon be the most normal thing in the world.

Yesterday someone wrote to me that he has decided to ignore the news about this madness. That will be difficult although I have managed quite well so far.

[Addition April 19: It is good to see that thousands of Americans (not least affected country) are now protesting. They recognize that the remedy is worse than the disease and want to get back to work despite the limited risks that exist.

The flu season is coming to an end and we can be sure that the figures for this flu virus will also go down quickly. It will certainly be announced that 'all the regulations and measures' worked out well. The damage they have caused (but fair to say is also a lot of new initiatives and developments it brought) is quickly placed on the background.]

It is time for a Romanian Antivirus (unfortunately not available here at the moment), but that will probably be fine soon. To create for a while a feeling of being more free again and to understand that with all our technology and intelligence we cannot reign life. 

We are all human beings living on a planet. And although ruining nature, nature will always be the winner. 

Gangey Gruma (Frans Captijn)

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