Covid Emotionally Speaking.

I sense we’re feeling emotionally attacked by this pandemic. It’s become a background bully, miasmic and impersonal, a constant frightening odour we can’t discern the source of. So in a conscious search for a culprit we just become emotional and attach it to some one or something we can be emotional at. Emotions are like that. They’re just there and our conscious attributions to them are, well quite frankly irresponsible. But we do it anyway. Domestically, governmentally, even racially we’re attaching this growing Covid emotional miasma believing they are the true source of our feelings. I for one can’t stand the icy interruptive white female voice of BBC 4’s morning news, I want to stab her with her own icicles. And now the brown smirk-faced professor on Piers Morgan’s morning inflammation who wants to tear down all our bronze historical figures on account of they were imperfect. Sorry fella history’s like that. The only way to be perfect is to do nothing. To imagine we automatically admire every bronze man on a plinth is simplistic. Mostly we just think, “Man on plinth, nice sculpture”, but even if we read who he is, ‘Best UK slave trader, 1795’, we don’t think, “Mmm nice idea!, why didn’t we cover that on my MBA.” So maybe as time goes on we’re becoming increasingly the victims of Corvid induced emotions and our consciousness's inability to sort the wheat from the chaff. If you find yourself crying or your homelings making you consider divorce I suggest you shout, ‘Fuck you Coronavirus’ as loud as possible. I do seriously wonder if emotion will be the demise of humans though. In one Star Trek episode Captain Kirk sent his crew out to get the dead body of an ex crew member while, wait for it, being attacked by numerous ferocious 30 foot animated telegraph poles. “An unfortunate decision Capen” said Spock. “That’s the difference between us Spock, we have feeling, we’re not just logical like you” Kirk replied. Thanks only to the script writers no one else died but I certainly wouldn’t fancy my chances against even one 30 foot animated telegraph pole.