Revisiting the Concept of Absurdity in Today’s Covid-Ridden World.

[Mindful]

“One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin.”

Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis opens with this absurdist line which eerily resonates with the times we have come to live in – filled with utter confusion, anxiety and a profound sense of meaninglessness. Over the last few months, we have consistently woken up to the news of death and devastation caused by a deadly, contagious virus which has managed to wreak havoc across the length and breadth of the globe.

Life, in all the ways we have known it, has come to what seems like an interminable standstill. Employment, education, trade, commerce and economic activities of various kinds have not had to face this magnitude of uncertainty at any point in the recent past. Our everyday lives are irrefutably intertwined with thoughts of potential sickness, misery and death.

Revisiting the Concept of Absurdity in Today’s Covid-Ridden World

What if you woke up as an insect? Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis is a reminder how the reality of today is grossly absurd.

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[Mindful]

^ What is happening? Why is it happening? How did it all begin? Is there a way forward? If there is, what is that going to be like?

We have no idea because a lot of us, across generations, have never had to face anything of this sort. We have never had to navigate our way through a world filled this abundantly with danger, disease and incoherence. The situation we find ourselves in reminded me of Gregor Samsa, the travelling salesman who wakes up one morning to find that he has transformed into a grotesque, monstrous, insect-like creature in Kafka’s Metamorphosis. An action as ordinary and unremarkable as waking up turns Samsa’s life upside-down.


never finds out how and why he metamorphosed into a “horrible vermin”. Kafka also provides no explanation through the course of the novella. We as readers are only made to sense the absurd nature of Samsa’s life post the metamorphosis, and partake vicariously in the acutely unpleasant turns it takes. We are given no clarification or justification with regard to the nature of Samsa’s condition.

It just is what it is.

 

[Moonglow]

I would like to remind you that the pandemic is nothing new in human society. My life came to a standstill when I started to become crippled...This virus ain't shit..

 

[Mindful]

I would like to remind you that the pandemic is nothing new in human society. My life came to a standstill when I started to become crippled...This virus ain't shit..

The human condition..

Have you read Kafka?

 

[Moonglow]

I would like to remind you that the pandemic is nothing new in human society. My life came to a standstill when I started to become crippled...This virus ain't shit..

The human condition..

Have you read Kafka?

I am more into the Akashic records or Motown..

 

[POM]

I would like to remind you that the pandemic is nothing new in human society. My life came to a standstill when I started to become crippled...This virus ain't shit..

The human condition..

Have you read Kafka?

No I have not. But I did read this

1) For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average, there were 4.0 additional conditions or causes per death.
2) For over 5% of the deaths in US between 2020 and 2021, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned on the death certificate.

In CDCs own words (in the article below the table under section 4 “Comorbidities and other conditions”), *to avoid counting the same death multiple times, the numbers for different conditions should not be summated.* Some deaths involve more than one of the same condition category.

In nutshell, only 5% of all coronavirus deaths in US were from Coronavirus alone. So the death number from coronavirus isn’t 548,971 but 5% of it. And majority of that 5% is for people above 65 years of age.

Read the CDC link yourself:

COVID-19 Provisional Counts - Weekly Updates by Select Demographic and Geographic Characteristics

 

[Mindful]

I would like to remind you that the pandemic is nothing new in human society. My life came to a standstill when I started to become crippled...This virus ain't shit..

The human condition..

Have you read Kafka?

I am more into the Akashic records or Motown..

So I’ve noticed.

 

[Mindful]

I would like to remind you that the pandemic is nothing new in human society. My life came to a standstill when I started to become crippled...This virus ain't shit..

The human condition..

Have you read Kafka?

No I have not. But I did read this

1) For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average, there were 4.0 additional conditions or causes per death.
2) For over 5% of the deaths in US between 2020 and 2021, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned on the death certificate.

In CDCs own words (in the article below the table under section 4 “Comorbidities and other conditions”), *to avoid counting the same death multiple times, the numbers for different conditions should not be summated.* Some deaths involve more than one of the same condition category.

In nutshell, only 5% of all coronavirus deaths in US were from Coronavirus alone. So the death number from coronavirus isn’t 548,971 but 5% of it. And majority of that 5% is for people above 65 years of age.

Read the CDC link yourself:

COVID-19 Provisional Counts - Weekly Updates by Select Demographic and Geographic Characteristics


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I know.

But we’re all caught up this dystopian scenario, nonetheless.

There are no visible militia out on the street, curtailing my basic rights. But there may as well be.

Protests in London and Paris today.

 

[POM]

I would like to remind you that the pandemic is nothing new in human society. My life came to a standstill when I started to become crippled...This virus ain't shit..

The human condition..

Have you read Kafka?

No I have not. But I did read this

1) For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average, there were 4.0 additional conditions or causes per death.
2) For over 5% of the deaths in US between 2020 and 2021, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned on the death certificate.

In CDCs own words (in the article below the table under section 4 “Comorbidities and other conditions”), *to avoid counting the same death multiple times, the numbers for different conditions should not be summated.* Some deaths involve more than one of the same condition category.

In nutshell, only 5% of all coronavirus deaths in US were from Coronavirus alone. So the death number from coronavirus isn’t 548,971 but 5% of it. And majority of that 5% is for people above 65 years of age.

Read the CDC link yourself:

COVID-19 Provisional Counts - Weekly Updates by Select Demographic and Geographic Characteristics


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I know.

But we’re all caught up this dystopian scenario, nonetheless.

There are no visible militia out on the street, curtailing my basic rights. But there may as well be.

Protests in London and Paris today.

Did you see this?

Peer-reviewed study *done by Stanford University* that demonstrates beyond a reasonable doubt that *face masks have absolutely zero chance of preventing the spread of Covid-19.*

It is posted on the the National Center for Biotechnological Information government website. The NCBI is a branch of the National Institute for Health, so one would think such a study would be widely reported by mainstream media?

RETRACTED: Facemasks in the COVID-19 era: A health hypothesis

TRUST THE SCIENCE. STUDY CLEARLY SAYS MASKS ARE HARMFUL TO HUMAN PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH.

 

[Mindful]

I would like to remind you that the pandemic is nothing new in human society. My life came to a standstill when I started to become crippled...This virus ain't shit..

The human condition..

Have you read Kafka?

No I have not. But I did read this

1) For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average, there were 4.0 additional conditions or causes per death.
2) For over 5% of the deaths in US between 2020 and 2021, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned on the death certificate.

In CDCs own words (in the article below the table under section 4 “Comorbidities and other conditions”), *to avoid counting the same death multiple times, the numbers for different conditions should not be summated.* Some deaths involve more than one of the same condition category.

In nutshell, only 5% of all coronavirus deaths in US were from Coronavirus alone. So the death number from coronavirus isn’t 548,971 but 5% of it. And majority of that 5% is for people above 65 years of age.

Read the CDC link yourself:

COVID-19 Provisional Counts - Weekly Updates by Select Demographic and Geographic Characteristics


View attachment 485890

I know.

But we’re all caught up this dystopian scenario, nonetheless.

There are no visible militia out on the street, curtailing my basic rights. But there may as well be.

Protests in London and Paris today.

Did you see this?

Peer-reviewed study *done by Stanford University* that demonstrates beyond a reasonable doubt that *face masks have absolutely zero chance of preventing the spread of Covid-19.*

It is posted on the the National Center for Biotechnological Information government website. The NCBI is a branch of the National Institute for Health, so one would think such a study would be widely reported by mainstream media?

RETRACTED: Facemasks in the COVID-19 era: A health hypothesis

TRUST THE SCIENCE. STUDY CLEARLY SAYS MASKS ARE HARMFUL TO HUMAN PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH.

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They induce borderline anxiety in shops for me. And laboured breathing.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

The truly attention grabbing problem here is the willingness to comply by ridiculous rules.
And making that FAR worse is not only complying, but being proud of it.
Wearing a mask somehow became a marker for morality. I totally understood wearing masks, as did I, in pre-immunization days and when the death/hospitalization numbers were high.
But that is flat out not the case anymore.
The fact that fully vaccinated people are walking around with masks on only to show their submission and be a "team player" is remarkable. And damning to liberty.
It only sets up this generation to comply to unrelated new rules.

 

[Mindful]

Do you think we have metamorphised into absurdity?

Aka Kafka?

 

[xband]

“One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin.”

Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis opens with this absurdist line which eerily resonates with the times we have come to live in – filled with utter confusion, anxiety and a profound sense of meaninglessness. Over the last few months, we have consistently woken up to the news of death and devastation caused by a deadly, contagious virus which has managed to wreak havoc across the length and breadth of the globe.

Life, in all the ways we have known it, has come to what seems like an interminable standstill. Employment, education, trade, commerce and economic activities of various kinds have not had to face this magnitude of uncertainty at any point in the recent past. Our everyday lives are irrefutably intertwined with thoughts of potential sickness, misery and death.

Revisiting the Concept of Absurdity in Today’s Covid-Ridden World

What if you woke up as an insect? Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis is a reminder how the reality of today is grossly absurd.

livewire.thewire.in

Old men have strange dreams but not sexual.

 

[StormAl]

Clarence does not get it.

Covid is responsible in full or in part for more than half a million deaths, and comorbidities are only a part of the issue and does not eliminate Covid as a cause.

 

[Moonglow]

Covid likes to restrict your free will to not be in hospital, arrest it immediately..

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Clarence does not get it.

Covid is responsible in full or in part for more than half a million deaths, and comorbidities are only a part of the issue and does not eliminate Covid as a cause.

You don't get it.
Death rates have fallen everywhere. In my state it is now approx. 3 per 1,00,000 people. And we have been mask free since April 4th.
California has some of the highest death rates in the country. And have the strictest rules.
So....

 

[Moonglow]

Clarence does not get it.

Covid is responsible in full or in part for more than half a million deaths, and comorbidities are only a part of the issue and does not eliminate Covid as a cause.

You don't get it.
Death rates have fallen everywhere. In my state it is now approx. 3 per 1,00,000 people. And we have been mask free since April 4th.
California has some of the highest death rates in the country. And have the strictest rules.
So....

I don't understand either because Ii was just getting ready to head to Colorado for a weed haul when the restrictions and closures happened..

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Since January, U.S. Covid hospitalization rates are have fallen by over 50% and in a free fall.
But hey... let's keep wearing masks...even if you are fully immunized... cause that makes sense.

 

[MisterBeale]

I would like to remind you that the pandemic is nothing new in human society. My life came to a standstill when I started to become crippled...This virus ain't shit..

The human condition..

Have you read Kafka?

Yeah, I have read Kafka, I have also read my James Joyce.

Moonglow and I often do not agree with how we would interpret or perceive our realities, but we have probably had similar experience, and what we do agree on, is it is not the experience, but how you choose to react to that experience.

. . . you can spend your life bitter about what has been or could have been,

. . . or to be grateful for what you still have and see beauty in what still is.

It is not in the absurdity of the world external that you need to place your focus. . . but the crux is where you consciously choose to place your consciousness on the Aesthetic.


IOW? It is our minds that give meaning to our lives, not the events of history around us.

 

[Mindful]

“One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin.”

Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis opens with this absurdist line which eerily resonates with the times we have come to live in – filled with utter confusion, anxiety and a profound sense of meaninglessness. Over the last few months, we have consistently woken up to the news of death and devastation caused by a deadly, contagious virus which has managed to wreak havoc across the length and breadth of the globe.

Life, in all the ways we have known it, has come to what seems like an interminable standstill. Employment, education, trade, commerce and economic activities of various kinds have not had to face this magnitude of uncertainty at any point in the recent past. Our everyday lives are irrefutably intertwined with thoughts of potential sickness, misery and death.

Revisiting the Concept of Absurdity in Today’s Covid-Ridden World

What if you woke up as an insect? Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis is a reminder how the reality of today is grossly absurd.

livewire.thewire.in

Old men have strange dreams but not sexual.

That’s a different topic.