Some Other Thoughts of Covid-19

Well, these thoughts came to me when I played Plague.inc. The goal of the game is to eradicate the humans on planet earth, I lost to several times as I tried new kind of disease (virus, fungus, etc.). When you lose the game, usually there are 2 things that happen; There are some people left, or the vaccine has finished and mass-produced. As always, disclaimer first. I'm not trying to capture any country as the mastermind or claiming this virus as a bioweapon (even though I know some media to picture it that way). That being said, I don't know the truth! I can only see what is happening and honestly everything I wrote is based on my own thoughts. Please don't be offended and trust me, I'm trying my best to be neutral here.

Enough of the game and let's go back to reality (or at least what I've seen until now). So the outbreak was started in China, Wuhan city to be specific. Anything suspicious? No, not yet. How fast they did the lockdown and how fast they built the hospital? Nothing so suspicious about it (yet). Alright. No problem. I remember I saw the news that the virus actually identified by a Chinese doctor and suddenly 'silenced'. I don't know the truth about what was happened, but if that's true then, something is fishy.

China is a huge country. almost as huge as several European countries combined. But I have a big question here, how come the virus is not spreading inland that much? What about the other cities? China is highly populated, isn't it? I've never been there, to be honest, but Wuhan looks just like Osaka and Kyoto. There are also some things that come to mind as some events prior to this incident, the WW3 issue, the US-China trade war and the HongKong riot just happened recently.

Now that the city has been locked down and so does the labor-intensive factories. Are they going to face a crisis soon? No news about that so far, while the other countries especially those who are close to China are afraid of the infection, Europe and the US can rest easy. Learning from the game, the virus can easily spread within land borders, planes, and ships. The virus can also spread using rodents, livestock, blood, insects, and avians. But this one seems to spread by cough and sneeze despite the news that said the virus came from a bat soup.

Let's be honest here, we all know that almost everything made in China, even the simplest thing. That means China has the power to control the world economy. Let's say they finally said "Ok, we will only make goods for ourselves. The rest of the world can go fuck themselves.", Then I can see that the prices of everything would be multiple times higher then it currently is since countries like Japan, US, EU, has clear and strong labor-law which covers working hours, health insurance, minimum wage, etc.

So logically, the virus should spread like an earthquake. It started at the epicenter and go affecting the surrounding area. But I see some weird patterns here. Cities that are close to it are somehow spared from the outbreak, but the virus itself somehow made its way out of China. To this point, I should've thought about Russia and N.Korea who are not in a quite good relationship with the US. Let's say in the case of Russia, the city center is located closer to Europe rather than Asia and in the case of N.Korea, I heard the infected people are executed almost immediately. I'm not saying that Japan is also spared since I believe there are many hidden cases to prevent massive panic regarding human psychology. But I'm going to talk about that at the end of this post.

How this virus benefits the world? Wait a minute. What's so beneficial about this? Ha! Don't you realize that air pollution mostly produced by vehicle emissions? Now that everyone is told to stay home and work remotely, there are fewer gas-vehicles operated. The good thing is that this virus (hopefully) make the people realize that some of them don't even need to be at the office working from 9-6 (maybe even more). On the other side, individual electricity bills will rise significantly. How about China in particular? Well, since the virus started in China, and it seems like they already get hold of it, the economy has started to run as usual. This benefits them in some way. First, they show themself as a capable country when the rest of the world is in chaos. This would lead to more and more countries look for China for help and it will lead to trust. Once they trust China and feel indebted to China, then China can easily control that. Second, the early bird catches the worm. As the economy slowed down, the market prices crash, The wealthy people can easily buy that at the rock-bottom price making them the major-owner. That's how the rich are getting richer. The same scheme could also be played by the US by making it as if China is trying to conquer the world and the US can play the victim of maybe the hero? Whatever, I don't want to blindly accuse anyone. It is a bad thing. Peace.

As the closure of this pointless, baseless, idiotic post, I'll just want to explain something that has been bugging me in the past few days. In Japan, we know that people tend to overwork and strictly following the law. This has a lot of positive sides, but it also has a bad effect. One of those is the lack of survival instinct. The people seem to truly depend on the orders given by the government, and if the government says nothing, they will also do nothing despite the situation. I will take an example from my campus. The campus did some changes regarding the credits, adding some programs, and change some mandatory subjects. it caused a lot of trouble because somehow people are used to the old system and the new system is not well communicated. Reflecting on that example, in an emergency situation or if there is a sudden change happening in the system, Japan cannot adapt quickly and will cause a lot of confusion. Therefore, the government (maybe) tried their best to control the possibility of massive chaos by you know what they did (or didn't).