Let me say how it is:
covid19 is a relatively benign dry run for the real thing. It's harmlessly and helpfully killing those on death's door anyway, but it gives a perceptible tug on the train's 'emergency chain' (anybody remember those ) to interrupt everybody's conversation, and attract their undistracted attention.
I do believe now it has attracted everybody's undistracted attention.Little else is discussed, it's ten times bigger than the world cup, the olympic games, the football league,Wimbledon, the Boat Race and the Grand National, the Royal wedding.funeral, all Terrorism, the IRA and the Brighton Bomb, Hirishima, all rolled into one.Only one story is bigger, Climate change.
It can only mean one thing to me, the deep establishment thinks Climate Change is real, as it might be, which would be a miilion times worse than any virus!
Except if the AGW models were correct, which they are not (pure junk maths), the worse case scenario has the average temp for Northern Europe being a bit higher than it was during the Medieval Warming Period and the Roman Climatic Optimum but a lot lower than the current Interglacial Maximum around 3500BC. And our neolithic ancestors had a reasonably comfortable life in the British Isles back then.
So as the AGW true believers are just a typical crank religion millinarian cult so like all religious cults they are profoundly totalitarian and cannot be reasoned with. As their prediction of imminent doom prove more and more incorrect they just become more and more deranged. Just look at all the very specific predictions made by these people in the 1960's and 1970's. All pathetically wrong.
So yes, just like the current COVID mass hysteria. The first pandemic in modern history where the annual mortality rates did not leave the 10 year range.
So in some way the COVIDIANs are a warning of what is to come if the eco-fascists and other green cultist get their way. Because just like with COVID every single "fact" they tell you is either wrong, a deliberate misrepresentation, or an outright lie.
Here are a few to start with. C02 is a trace greenhouse gas. Water vapor is the only one that might matter in the global context. In any dynamic system a change of ppm's of one trace component will have no measurable effect. None.
But here is the piece de resistance The fundamental value on which the whole AGW edifice is built, the Kelvin magnitude of the purported "green house effect" is derived from a model that assumes the surface of the earth has no temperature and the oceans (and the boundary layer air above it) have no other source of energy apart from solar radiation. Ignoring the fact that the oceanic crust is 11C and there is major independent geothermal heat source in the ocean.
So its not surprising that the strongest believers in COVID as some uniquely catastrophic infection (rather than a novel "flu") are the same sort of people who believe in the AGW pseudo-scientific BS. And yes, if the COVID farrago is allowed to continue unchallenged worse is to come. From the eco-fascists.