Pandemic means global. Not everyone contracted covid, but it is still spreading. Eventually, almost everyone will have had it. Lets round up to everyone. To a near medical certainty, long covid can cause frontal lobe damage. Some studies indicate it is progressive.
Does the world seem a bit nuttier than normal?
Do people seem a bit meaner these last few years?
Is it getting better or worse since covid?
The frontal lobe is responsible for thinking, reasoning, emotions, personality, memory, language and motor skills. Without an actual cure, it will keep spreading. If progressive, it will end human existence.
I realize that sounds nutty. But if we just keep getting dumber and dumber, crazier and crazier, what other outcome could there be? Without an absolute cure or preventative, the best we can hope for is the progression will be slow enough that we can kick out a new generation, which will then get infected and start the cycle again.
It is becoming The Walking Dead. Dumb nut cases milling around everywhere. Not so dumb not so nutty people isolating and hope we dont catch the crazy. But we already have the virus and the dumb nutcases have the nuclear weapons.
You are likely going: No way. That is unimaginable. And yet, many folk now think it is fine for the U.S. Navy to perform summary executions on suspected drug smugglers. Many folk feel it is OK to exterminate entire populations based because terrorists live among them.
I say, because the laws against these actions were created before covid, we should cling to them because we are either not rational or soon to be. Oh, you all think I am talking about international law. Nope, I am talking about the law of God. Note the capital 'G' which includes lots of the lower case 'g's.
If not, then this is how we end.
Christianity: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" (Luke 6:31).
Judaism: "What is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow" (Talmud, Shabbat 31a).
Islam: "None of you truly believes until he loves for his brother what he loves for himself" (Hadith).
Buddhism: "Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful" (Udana-Varga 5.18)
Hinduism: "This is the sum of duty; do not do to others what would cause pain if done to you" (Mahabharata 5:1517)