The pandemic revealed the most cowardly society of all time

And if we were all analyzing the pandemic, we wouldn't look only at the health issue. We'd have to be talking about how it was the greatest transfer of wealth in human history from the poor to the billionaires. That's not mere rhetoric. Yes, it was the greatest in history, according to the Oxfam Global 2022 report. During the years 2020 to 2022, while billions of people faced job losses, hunger, and extreme poverty, billionaires saw their fortunes explode, driven by economic stimulus packages, stock market surges, and record corporate profits.

"Ten richest men double their fortunes in pandemic while incomes of 99 percent of humanity fall" is the report's title.

The world's ten richest men more than doubled their fortunes, from $700 billion to $1.5 trillion - at a rate of $15,000 per second or $1.3 billion per day - during the first two years of a pandemic that saw the income of 99% of humanity fall and more than 160 million people pushed into poverty," the data explained. "A new billionaire emerges every 26 hours, while inequality contributes to one person dying every four seconds.

Certainly, if society were discussing this, we'd have various intellectuals raising questions, especially about how all of this was planned. According to another article in the Telegraph from England, scientists admitted to using fear to control behaviors. "Scientists on a committee that encouraged the use of fear to control people's behavior during the Covid pandemic admitted that their work was unethical and totalitarian." Really? I could never have imagined.

"There were discussions about the need to use fear to encourage compliance, and decisions were made about how to ramp up that fear. The way we used fear is dystopian," one scientist told the Telegraph.

"Clearly, using fear as a means of control is not ethical. Using fear smacks of totalitarianism. It's not an ethical stance for any modern government. By nature, I'm an optimistic person, but all this has given me a more pessimistic view of people," said Gavin Morgan, psychologist on the scientific team, to the newspaper.

"The use of fear was definitely ethically questionable. It was like a strange experiment. In the end, it backfired because people got too scared."

And everyone seeing the topic as a turned page.

Cowardice and cultural void

The Cold War generation was forged by old men who held power over the nuclear button. The young people's response was a thunderous: "Fuck you, we're going to make art, love, and revolution."

Our generation was forged by old men in power ordering children to be vaccinated so they could serve as human shields. The response was silent obedience.

Five years after the Missile Crisis, the Beatles released Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. It was a revolution in music. On the radio it competed with the Rolling Stones' hit "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction." Five years after the lockdowns, our society learned how to hold meetings on Zoom.

The Cold War produced a sexual revolution, the hippie movement, the miniskirt, young people taking to the streets in the US, Rio, Mexico City, Paris, Africa, and Asia. It produced May '68. An existential fear generated a monumental cultural explosion. During Covid, we posted pictures of homemade bread on Instagram.