The moving finger of fate said You are not what you think you are. Life is not about what you think it is about. You will not achieve your new year’s resolutions and business plans. Things will never be the same again. Everything you knew as normal is no longer true. It could be a Koontz novel plot….hinged around the premise that: Wild animals aren’t meant to be killed for the pleasure of humans…..and every person on this planet is suffering because of the cruelty of a few people who hunt, torture and kill animals and other humans just because they can.
And some humans are so desperate for the comfort of God that they don’t listen to any warnings from the government of the dangers of a virus. They congregate in mosques and gather in hatred against all those who don’t believe like they do. At the first level the tragedy that other humans are so mean to them, that they must believe in a god and after life to cope with the cruelty and injustice of their daily existence. At the second level the terrible stupidity that an army has to quarantine them to get them to stop being a threat to society. At the third, the grief that spiritual wisdom is so misunderstood, that instead of being the strength of a nation, it becomes their greatest curse.
The world is suffering from a global pandemic that threatens to wipe out a million people over 6 months. There is no antibiotic, no vaccine, and hardly any control on this virus. Somehow all the defense budgets, disaster planning and all the rest of the huge expenditures on safety are nothing in front of this absolutely weird situation.
We are all in prison, unable to connect to each other physically. People must stay 6 feet away from each other. The most popular must have items of 2020 are masks, hand sanitizing gels, bleach, disinfectant wipes and disinfectants of all sorts. The world and its armies have been mobilized against a microscopic thing that is not even a complete cell. Normal life is at a standstill on the entire planet. Nobody is celebrating anything. Nobody gathers for any reason. Intimacy, weddings, dating, conferences, yoga gatherings, reiki events, hugs, sports, chess, board games, parties…..the list goes on and on. Human activity on the planet is at a standstill. Oil prices have dropped.
The street where I live is deathly silent. I hardly see anyone. For the last 2 weeks I have stayed at home and I only go out for groceries, or a short walk to cope. I am effectively in self isolation. We are all in some kind of prison. Is it the revenge of animals for being treated so cruelly that a mutation occurred?. So many of us suspect it, we hate the cruelty practiced in some parts of the world, but apart from grieving over it, we can’t change it.
The above sounds like the plot for a TV pilot of a sci fi drama. But it is just the first 3 months of 2020.
Behind The Veil 