A mathematical “paradox” of the epidemic is, namely, that not only those who ignore it suffer, but everyone does. And the paradox grows where collective epidemiological protection is on the same level as everything else that is collective: property, equality, justice, security, education, empathy – everything but collective madness and hysteria.

Voja Zanetic

When was the last time you got smacked on the head?

For most of us, it would have been elementary school or high school. A negligible number of us may have received a hit in a bar, stadium or during a traffic dispute.

But what if suddenly there was an illness which makes the patient want to smack other people on the head? And at the same time, it could be accompanied by the fact that the patient wants to hit themselves, sometimes so much so they are seriously injured. A small percentage of sufferers from this disease could die. Every hundredth person, for example, would end up dying from their own or someone else’s blows.

Let’s complicate this a little. The disease is contagious and it spreads. When one person hits another, the victim gets the desire to hit themselves and two other people on the head. Layman mathematics says that if this were the case, after the very first infection a mass fight of all genders and ages would develop, by which 3 million people would be hit in the head within a couple of weeks, and 30,000 of them would die. And the numbers would only continue to grow…

Let’s imagine that, in the end, that scientists invented the vaccine, after which a minimum of 7 out of 10 people would not feel the aforementioned desire to hit if they come in contact with the disease. The mass fist fight, therefore, decreases. And if over 70% of them are vaccinated, there is a possibility that the fight will stop.

Fortunately for us, there is no such imaginary fight. There is only Covid.

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These are the two problems with Covid-19: the type of disease and the type of vaccine. If, for example, it was an epidemic that we mentioned in the example above, in addition to the health care system, the security system would also collapse. Therefore, it can be assumed that this vaccination – against mass fights, murders and suicides – would be far more desirable than the one that helps us not to get sick and die from insignificant pneumonia.

This is not the only example of what we could re-imagine Corona to be. Here, one could imagine that Covid-19 (its number is symbolic) causes impotence. It is quite certain that taking some kind of pre-protection would be far more popular and desirable than is the case with the current process of vaccination against a disease that attacks the wrong, excuse my language, organ. And it’s not that same Pfizer, by the way.

Oh and – apart from the fact that it is the wrong disease, the vaccine is mispackaged. It is in a damn injection that hurts “terribly”. But if, say, it were a pill, it would be easier. Or if the vaccine could be taken from a glass or a bottle, or if we were able to smoke it (possibly even from some fancy apparatus) or sniff its whitish “wax” powder. In all of these cases, there certainly wouldn’t have been as many mass protests, online reviews, or YouTube sermons. Because they are none now – and people sniff, smoke and drink everywhere.

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The collective consciousness of the population, therefore, would not require an imposed – and even easy to do – obligation to protect against excess fighting and lack of sex. We would do it voluntarily… But, considering that the Corona pandemic is one of a disease that, in the opinion of the current collective consciousness, is not so problematic, then the introduction of mandatory vaccination is still being considered.

A mathematical “paradox” of the epidemic is, namely, that not only those who ignore it suffer, but everyone does. And the paradox grows where collective epidemiological protection is on the same level as everything else that is collective: property, equality, justice, security, education, empathy – everything but collective madness and hysteria.

In this Vicinity of ours, therefore. And a vaccine for the mentioned social diseases doesn’t exist, nor is there a clear answer to the question whether it would be  ”well received”. Because we’re late.

And in the case of the Corona, we might not yet be late – we will find out very soon.