COVID-19 Is Over -- Are You More Hyped Than Ever?
In Japan, the COVID-19 is finally moving behind us with little damage done. There is a heavy heart cast to those that passed.
It should be noted that it didn’t take draconian measures in Japan to “beat this thing”. People acted like responsible adults for the most part without the need of big brother stomping its heavy technocratic boots on our necks.
On May 25 7pm Japan Time PM Shinzo Abe declared the remaining prefectures of Japan “No Longer Under Emergency”.
So it’s over. Are you hyped? We are free. Maybe you enjoyed your free time. I sure did. Twas nothing permanent. More like Limbo.
Or are you wondering why? Why was all that so much so fast so willy nilly with everything pulling a 180 all the time.
Wear a mask? —> You’re stealing from the health workers. Now go to the supermarket and buy all the toilet paper and post it on Twitter!
Don’t wear a mask? —> You are going to kill my grandmother! Now quick, stay inside, don’t leave and beg for the cure from government doctors, unless they protest on Youtube, in which case — ban them!
Now let’s do social distancing for non-essential workers! —> Free money now!
Notice how the COVID-19 started in China but now… no one really talks about it? Why are people so quick to make a crises about themselves?
It blows my mind.
Kaboom.
While the crises might be over, supply chainers and business owners are left scratching their heads, and the more clever of the lot will probably start to consider the following:
Why was everything being manufactured in Wuhan, a remote city in China few had heard of before? From IT, to cyber security, to pharmaceuticals, to car manufacturing — for the world.
How was it possible for the CCP government to at first deny anything was happening then lockdown Wuhan, a city of 11 million people, and essentially comandeer a global supply chain?
How did China start its own businesses back up while the rest of the world essentially scrambled? (essential-scramblers?)
When most people think about Chinese goods, we are still in the mindset of cheap trinkets that line the walls of tacky electronic shops as well as the random goods we order online that arrives in the mail and soon makes it way to a closet somewhere.
In 2020, not only was a considerable chunk of the global supply chain bottlenecked in a distant city in a totalitarian regime, the products were far from cheap trinkets. Yet when I was in Beijing in May 2019 most of the tourists had never heard of the technological advancements that China had been making since the 2010s, with their QR Code payment systems making to up as much as 75% of all Fast Food Purchases in 2017, to Government Incentives of building new cities with underground tunnel networks of self-driving cars to separate pedestrian traffic from automated vehicles. There were police robots on the streets of Beijing. The tourists wanted to see the Wall. With paper maps.
While the world is now focused on their own needs and are beginning to reflect how they somehow won the COVID Crises, the Chinese Communist Party was able to study in real time on all of the open global networks how individuals, communities, countries, and global orgs like the WHO were reacting and the measures that not only the people were requesting, but the government were promising to implement with 100s of billions of currency at the drop of the hat.
Think about that kind of actionable insight. Hello Big Data. My name is the CCP, and I like what I see.
All we saw from China was either on state-run media of people putting medical supplies into relief jets, or people being welded into their homes. Information so polar and useless no one knows what to make of it.
So yes, we are free people once again, but just like how the yin and yan turns on the face of the rotating earth, in time we as free people should consider that responsibility for the COVID-19 spread is from China’s CCP, and that the COVID-19 was allowed to spread while the global supply chains were shackled by foreign powers.
Hey Free People! Are you more hyped now than a week ago? In Japan, I expect most people are over and done with it.