Meanwhile, On The Other Side Of Town

 

Hello, dear readers. Ah de do? I’ve been AWOL for a bit because I was sick to the back teeth of the covid shenanigans and really felt it was unfair to pass it on to unsuspecting people going through their own problems. The wretched lockdowns, it’s on, it’s off, in, out, in , out, shake it all about. The daily drivel from the media, the paranoid people who want to wear a mask forever, even if they don’t need to, the suborning of science to fit an agenda, I just couldn’t deal.

So here we are, freedom… or not. I was heartened to see that once again healthcare workers are immune to covid. If we get pinged by test and trace, assuming you’re crazy enough to download it in the first place, why, you can merrily ignore it and carry on. Just as we did in ye olde days, you know, when diseases were symptomatic. Sars cov 2 retreats in the face of your M.Pharm(Hons) or MBBS certificate. As soon as the virus sees it, it says’ Boys and girls, we can’t infect her. She’s a nurse. Quick, let’s find an accountant‘ It’s exactly the same process where it knows not to infect you when you’re sitting down in a restaurant but will instantly pounce if you stand up to go to the loo. Sometimes I feel like the captain of the ship of fools, heading straight for a sand bar.

Do you know when I gave up all hope? During a discussion with a doctor, qualified for at least 30yrs and someone I know is a very competent and clever person. They asked about the conditions in Nigeria after I returned in April. I was telling them that Covid is not a thing there as the populace decided to get back to their lives once they realised very few people were affected and that they would starve to death in the absence of a welfare state and good old furlough. And do you know what they said to me? ‘Well, maybe they’ve been lucky so far. It might hit at any minute‘ And I thought, ‘what, after 14 months, with a population of 200 million? Luck?’ Must be that science we’ve been following again. I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. If a qualified doctor can say such a preposterous thing with a straight face, what hope for the rest of us?

It’s the same confirmation bias that made another doctor dismiss the possibility of Vitamin D exposure decreasing the risk of catching coronaviruses. He told me that he’d read an article in The Lancet that said it was unlikely, so that was that. Absolutely, let’s not gather any data, test some people to establish Vit D levels, establish a control group, establish incidence of infection. You know, all the stuff we did as scientists before 2020. Not when we can read an editorial in The Lancet instead. It would be amusing if this rubbish didn’t lead to 70 million people being put under house arrest indefinitely, with livelihoods and relationships being wrecked in the process, the elderly dying alone and of loneliness, and women giving birth alone in hospitals.

So, enough covid. A plague, a real one, on the houses of the perpetrators of this madness who will do anything to save face and hang on to their jobs. My new thing, Tartaria. I don’t know how this has escaped my attention for so long, supreme nosey parker that I am. I have looked at these buildings for years and thought, ‘how did they build that, and why don’t we build like that anymore?’ The same for the art and sculpture, people say it’s because we are modern but I don’t believe we can replicate them even if we wanted to. The theory? We didn’t build any of those fancy buildings or make any of that artwork. Anything dated from 1750 onwards is open to question. I mean, all of them built while we were still using horses and wagons. No electricity, no power tools. Pull the other one, it’s got bells on. And the houses that look like they’re sunk into the ground with submerged fullsize windows and doors? History says they were installed so that coal could be loaded straight into the cellars. What, even in tropical countries? Hmmm. The theory is that they are evidence of a worldwide mudflood that occured in the last 200-300 years. And what about the giant doors with little inset mansize doors? The history? The doors were for everyday use and the giant doors for when horses had to be brought in to deliver goods. Must be one hell of a horse!

These buildings are found in every single country in the world, and they look alike, a lot. Even in cultures with a strong artristic tradition of their own like Japan, China and India, you will find these Graeco-Roman buildings everywhere. And those are the remnants, lots of them have been destroyed to make way for our talent-free brutalist modernist box-buildings. When I look at the photos and videos of the buildings that have been destroyed, I want to weep. How is it possible for a person to yearn for a past they never knew? Totally absurd, but there it is. And in the final attempt to really mess with your mind, there is a theory that these buildings are from the Millennial Reign of Christ on Earth which happened in what we call the Dark Ages and has been scrubbed from history. Essentially, our ancestors then moved into these spaces and claimed them for their own. Yep, He’s been and gone, Armageddon has already happened and we are in the final days before the Last Judgement. Rabbit hole? You bet! I am going to investigate further – if history had been this interesting in school, I wouldn’t have dumped it ASAP for chemistry and biology. Tartaria: a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. The only thing that I know for sure is that it has nothing to do with the Tartars 🙂 AlaraApothecary: we blow your mind. See you on the other side.