Language is an aspect of culture, and culture is a dynamic concept which evolves and changes with time. Economy can be defined as the wealth and resources of a country or region, especially in terms of the production and consumption of goods and services. However, the word economy has evolved and assumed the same meaning for death and destruction of planet earth.
Do not take my word for it, according to Dr. Fauci appointed Director of NIAID in 1984. He oversees an extensive research portfolio of basic and applied research to prevent, diagnose, and treat established infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS, respiratory infections, diarrheal diseases, tuberculosis, and malaria as well as emerging diseases such as Ebola and Zika. He put it bluntly that in order to open up the economy to where it was before corona virus involves a trade off between life and death. Lockdown and physical distancing or death through corona virus as a result of resumption of economic activities. “How many lives are you willing to lose”.
As if that was not clear enough, a former Trump adviser on CNN said it was a choice between “Live and livelihood” in an interview on 6th of May 2020, though in her defence, she probably did not hear herself talking, otherwise common sense should have kicked in and tell her that, if you do not choose life, then you are choosing death, if you are dead, you can not choose livelihood from your grave.
In another example of the blind leading the blind (again not my words, but that of Jesus Christ), in late February, as a result of United Kingdom’s headlong obstinate diametric opposition to the EU, a high ranking member of the “Leave campaign clan of Boris Johnson & co” attended the SAGE (Scientific Advisory Group Emergency) meetings, and the advise of the UK chief scientific adviser was “Herd immunity”, which resulted in a delay in enforcing a Lockdown in UK. Even Donald Trump was laughing at UK in front of the world media because of the dumb advice or directive of the UK government. And when the person who suggested that people should be injected with disinfectant starts laughing at you, then you should know that you can not get any “stupider”. By the way this is the same Donald Trump who discriminated against Europeans, banned them from entering the US at the height of the corona crisis, while allowing people from UK and Ireland. As of 6th of May 2020, United Kingdom has the highest number of deaths from corona virus in all of the European nations. Talk about special relationship between US and UK, the two countries with the highest number of deaths from corona virus in the whole world.
A test of the air quality of the megacities of the world during the worldwide lockdown, shows a remarkable improvement, and almost smog free skies. Which indicates that an adjustment to our way of life and running of economies (there were still economic activities going on during lockdown) has a direct correlation with the state of planet earth. And yet world leaders like Donald Trump thinks “Greenhouse gas and rising global temperature” is a hoax. The planet is dying, being destroyed at an alarming, rapidly accelerating rate, from our economic activities. Which means, we are caught between a rock and a hard place, the corona virus is killing people, and yet some people (some in the US and elsewhere) are complaining that they should be allowed to go back to work thereby increase economic activities which in turn leads to the destruction of the planet. Economy is indeed the new synonym for human death and destruction of the planet Earth. The choice is between life and death. Modified living in a post corona virus age with adjusted economic activities and physical distancing, or loss of human lives from corona virus and related deaths, combined with the destruction of planet earth and life as we know it. Choose wisely.
