by Manfred Horst Ophelia (1851) by John Everett Millais. Though this be madness, yet there is method in ’t.Shakespeare, Hamlet II,2 Perhaps we should consider it a privilege to live one of the absurdest and grotesquest episodes of recent world history. Perhaps we should consider it a privilege to witness how easily scientific and democratic control mechanisms can be overwhelmed by a global panic disorder. Perhaps we should consider it a privilege to be merely publicly and socially ostracised if we dare utter a dissenting opinion to the uniform mainstream madness and hysteria. Perhaps we should consider it a privilege to only be fined or imprisoned (not eliminated) if we dare disobey ridiculous and inhuman governmental orders. Certainly, in the developed West, we must also consider it a privilege to still be living quite well. Any one of the hundreds of subtypes of common cold/bronchitis viruses which assail our immune systems every year would produce the same clinical and epidemiological features as SARS-CoV-2 – if we decide to test and look for it: Non-specific symptoms - fever, cough, headaches, muscle aching, diarrhea etc.If we look very closely, perhaps we’ll find something a little more exotic (but still not truly specific), e.g. anosmia and ageusiaA generally benign and transitory illnessIn some rare cases, longer-lasting sequelaePossible severe complications in elderly, frail and ...