27 February

The genius of Covid is to give people a ‘mild’ illness, so they think it’s ’just a cold’. That mildness is the virus bypassing your immune system, to gain easy entry to your organs and blood vessels. The immune response is what makes you feel sick, so if you don't feel very sick, it just means the virus conned your immune system. Once in you, it fucks you over. It 'does you slowly', as Paul Keating would say, or sometimes not even that slowly. I’ve been unsuccessful at convincing just about anybody to save themselves from it. People are scared of doing something different to what everybody else is doing. Death is therefore now trending. This was the probable cause of heart disease in the 20th century too (it wasn't eating fat), the Spanish Flu pandemic destroying peoples' hearts over the following decades.