In the early days of this event, it seemed that celebrities and even some politicians couldn’t stop queuing up to test positive. Got a new book or film out? – well announce on social media you’ve tested positive and you’ll be guaranteed the third slot on the evening news. Take a video selfie of your self-isolation and you will be inundated with offers of TV interviews, with the interviewer wearing full personal protective equipment while talking to you from the studio or shouting through your window.
Get viral and go viral.
Presumably this is based upon the fact that famous people and politicans lead such privileged lives that if the rarified air they breathe is contaminated then the situation must be really bad. We were told that Tom Hanks, Mrs Tom Hanks, Idris Elba, some footballers, Mrs Canadian prime minister, some more footballers, Michel Barnier, some footballers’ managers and finally Prince Charles had all tested positive.
At the same time as we were struggling to take in this appalling news, the British government was suggesting advising telling dictating that everyone stay indoors because ‘the coronavirus’ was a death machine that would kill on sight, not to mention kill the NHS and everyone else on the planet if anyone dared to go outside.
This strategy scared a nation into submission except for some rather large holes in its veracity. Firstly, none of the aforementioned celebrities and politicians died. Nor did they kill others or destroy the healthcare system in their respective nations. Secondly, Emperor Johnson suggested advised told dictated that anyone with a temperature had to go home and stay indoors unless they wanted to go outdoors for some exercise.
If this event were genuinely as bad as we are being told (the killer virus of death, the worst virus in the history of the world ever), what do you think the official advice would be?
If you get ‘the coronavirus’ you should
A: go home and stay there for 14 days, unless you fancy going outside for a walk or bike ride.
or
B: seek urgent medical attention.
So if you are well enough to stay at home and unless you fancy going out for a while, then you can’t be that ill in the first place.