I would just like to come out in favor of Corona Virus.  How dare so many people be so bigoted.  Have you walked a mile in Corona’s shoes?  How dare you judge.  How dare you suggest that someone was given a virus outside of their choice and that they are not able to identify as healthy.  Who do you think you are, God?! Imposing your morality on someone like that.  You should know by now that reality is just social construct and that you are free at any time to construct your own, and impose it on others.  Or else.  Yet it seems like so many today are blind to this obvious evil in our midst.  I see countless people going over to the dark side suggesting that this virus is ‘bad’ or assigning those who have it with any  number of pejoratives like ‘infected’ or ‘sick’.  Get with the times this isn’t 1999.  We don’t do that sort of thing to people anymore, unless they are Christians.

Jacob van Oost the Younger. St. Macarius of Ghent Giving Aid to the Plague Victims. c. 1673.

And trying to fight something we have no control over makes us look bad.  Why don’t we just put down our medical tools, and step away slowly and admit, viruses happen.  There’s nothing we can do about it, so let’s just give people free needles and marijuana and opioids, so they can enjoy the virus with ease.  Maybe we even abort or euthanize those who have it? Just admit that the virus has won.  All this contention might remind people that humans are not as all powerful as they seem.  All our modern science that is better than all those old crusty racists who went before us, is helpless against a tiny little virus?  People might start to question global warming, or even the supremacy of humans to create their own God.  I mean we can’t have all the people in the world admitting their inadequacy at the expense of science, the most powerful force in the universe.  That would be un Modern.

And besides all this unity in banding together to fight a common enemy is so icky.  You want me to band together with people from the opposite political party?  Gross!  I would rather be subjected to online bullying.  Even the thought of all this unity just makes me break out in hives.  Hives of my own personal reality, the abuse is real—in my mind.  And to think I used to identify as healthy, only a few short days ago.  Enough with the collective gas-lighting already.

And then after I’ve embraced Corona Virus for the person she, he, it, vi, truly is I suppose you are going to tell me that I can’t marry the one I love?  That marriage is only between humans or groups or conglomerations or pastiches of humans and not between a man and his vi?  I expected more from a post Christian people wandering amilessly amongst their own arbitrary moral laws.