As much as anything, I think all the fear we're seeing is a result of (individuals within) broader society having lost its own belief in its ability to deal with adversity.
I will not for a moment deny that COVID-19 is a serious illness, but the responses are ridiculous. It's like when I was a little kid, we'd play outside in the dirt, ride our bikes without helmets or pads, eat snails and leaves off the trees... and we're still alive. Now we have to take so many precautions it's INSANE, just to get from our house to the mailbox to check the mail.
We knew how to fight a virus back then. We expected to feel very sick, would probably have quite a fever, got in bed and suffered for three days, then started to feel better. We did not go to doctors, we did not worry. We knew we would be fine. We have forgotten even this simple understanding of healing ourselves of a natural virus.
If it IS a bio terror organism, we ought to stop freaking out about the virus and identify who or what has released this thing, because the true danger lies there.
In either case, regarding our very bodies as poisonous, our clothing, our hands, all surfaces in our homes is really just all part of the hypnotic content we have been fed. We are not the poison. I refuse to accept that lie.
Thanks for listening. Since NYS is under extreme social isolating measures, I have a lot of time to think.