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Is the Pandemic Endgame On the Horizon in Europe?

1/25/2022

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Pandemic Endgame 2022 / Karen McCann / enjoylivingabroad@gmail.com
Father Tim uses a squirt gun filled with holy water to bless parishioners' Easter baskets in front of St. Ambrose Catholic Church, Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan.

When I read that a Catholic priest was using a squirt gun full of holy water to bless his parishioners’ Easter baskets while social distancing, I realized it was time to embrace the wacky side of the new dystopian order. This was in a suburb of Detroit back in April of 2020, and when Father Tim stood outside San Ambrose, armed and sanctifying, I like to imagine his flock found it as heartwarming and chucklesome as I did. Looking for the lighter side of these dark times has helped me hold onto some shreds of sanity. And since Father Tim’s squirt gun hit the news (and the Easter baskets), I’ve discovered countless stories about just how oddball things can get when people have high anxiety, a relaxed hold on common sense, and way too much time on their hands.
 
For instance, an international group of scientists, who obviously have never seen a horror movie, recently created the first human-monkey embryo. Press releases describe the scientific breakthrough in which hybrids, known as chimera formations, are made with human stem cells implanted into monkeys. "Of course," notes the online magazine Nerdist, "that doesn’t answer the most obvious questions we have. Like, ‘Why?’ Followed by, ‘No, seriously, WHY?’ And of course, ‘Is this a plot to destroy mankind with an army of monkey-human hybrids?’”

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In the 2017 film War for Planet of the Apes, things didn't go so well for humans. Maybe we'll do better next time around.
 
​Until recently, there were strict legal limits to growing human cells in animal embryos, and all experimental  chimeras had to be destroyed after two weeks. Then Spanish scientists created a human-monkey chimera in a secret lab in China (I am not making this up), and soon after that Japan relaxed its laws, allowing such embryos to be brought to term; other countries are following suit. Teams at the University of Tokyo and Stanford University are busy doing experiments they hope will lead to growing animals with organs that can be transplanted into humans. Yes, what could possibly go wrong?
 
On the plus side, thinking about an army of monkey-human hybrids taking over the planet probably cleared your mind of worries about the pandemic, if only momentarily. Suddenly our present reality doesn’t seem quite so terrifying, does it? Turns out our definition of catastrophe largely depends on what else we have to worry about. It’s easy to stop fretting over an awkward Zoom call if the house catches on fire. “I suppose,” says the narrator in H.G. Wells’ science-run-amok classic The Island of Doctor Moreau, “everything in existence takes its colour from the average hue of our surroundings.”
 
The literal truth of this has been demonstrated by generations of art teachers using the famous Checker Shadow Illusion image shown below. The checkerboard squares marked A and B are exactly the same shade of gray. Yes, they are.

Pandemic Endgame 2022 / Karen McCann / enjoylivingabroad@gmail.com
The second image in the Checker Shadow Illusion uses a gray strip to prove that, despite what your eyes are telling you, the squares A and B are identical shades of gray.

And it’s the same in real life. Our perceptions are only approximations, deeply influenced by the context in which we view them.
 
For instance — and you may find this happens to you, too — some days the world feels particularly topsy-turvy and I lose my psychological footing, falling into a pit of free-floating anxiety. For no obvious reason (except of course the pandemic, climate change, the economy, the fact I’m not getting any younger, and a few other pesky issues) my usual optimism wobbles, and I become enveloped by nameless, nagging worry.
 
At such times, I take comfort from the words of one of my spiritual teachers, Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh, who passed away this week at the age of 95. “Fear,” he said, “keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive.” As Americans, we are raised with the idea that anything less than perpetual happiness feels wrong and vaguely unpatriotic, as if we’re not living up to the “pursuit of happiness” clause in the Declaration of Independence. Thich Nhat Hanh reminds us that it’s enough just to be alive. To wake up every morning, still breathing, with eyes to see the world and ears to hear our loved one’s voices. Sometimes just putting one foot in front of the other is a victory worth celebrating.

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Life will always fall somewhere on the spectrum between bliss and misery. Luis Gallardo, president of the World Happiness Foundation, says the overarching cause of our personal and global problems is feeling disconnected — from ourselves, from our communities, and from nature. While we may perceive ourselves as being disconnected, physicists and spiritual leaders insist we're really not. “Everything is connected," observes Albert Einstein. “We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness,” says Thich Nat Hanh. Or as humorist Wavy Gravy puts it, “We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self.”

If we’ve learned anything about the global pandemic, it’s that it affects us all. Yes, even those who deny Covid exists, exhort us to bypass the vaccines in favor of horse de-wormer, and insist it’s all a plot of the reptilian aliens who have infiltrated the Deep State. Each one of us is shaping the course of events in this global emergency. As my friend Maer says, “It’s like traffic. You aren’t stuck in traffic, you are the traffic.” For better or worse, we have met the pandemic response team and it is us.

Pandemic Endgame 2022 / Karen McCann / enjoylivingabroad@gmail.com
We are all frontline workers in the pandemic response. And I am deeply grateful to every one of you who wears a mask, gets vaxxed, and supports a sane approach to public safety. Thank you! Photo: Noam Galai, Getty Images

There is room for optimism. WHO Europe Director Hans Kluge said Monday, “It’s plausible that the region is moving towards a kind of pandemic endgame.” The fact that many expect 60% of Europeans to be infected by Omicron in the next two months is both good and bad news, an area as gray as the A and B squares in the Checker Shadow Illusion. Yes, we’re still in for a rough time and many (way too many) sad losses. But as the Omicron surge subsides, Kluge says, “We anticipate that there will be a period of quiet before Covid-19 may come back towards the end of the year, but not necessarily the pandemic coming back … I am hopeful we can end the emergency phase in 2022.”

Of course, as anyone who’s ever watched a horror movie knows, making a statement like that is taunting fate to jump roaring out of the closet to prove you wrong. Yes, the numbers are coming down in Spain, some other areas of Europe, and parts the US. But a lifetime of movie-going has taught me not to count my chickens before the final credits roll. Covid is as tricky as a brain-enhanced monkey, and no doubt is planning to spring more surprises on us. I suspect it won’t go quietly. Life as we know it will change, over and over again. So what can we do? Perhaps philosopher Alan Watts says it best: “The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”

Dancing in the Rain / Pandemic Endgame 2022 / Karen McCann / enjoylivingabroad@gmail.com
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Heather link
1/25/2022 04:47:52 pm

I can live with COVID, just keep those monkeys away from me. Travelling around Thailand was my own real-life horror movie. As for Planet of the Apes, even watching a trailer is too much for me.

Stay safe and keep well!

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Karen McCann
1/26/2022 05:40:13 pm

I feel for you, Heather! Like you, I've been in parts of Thailand where there were lots of monkeys around, and they didn't seem very friendly, to say the least. I've learned to treat them with respect and move out of their way, an attitude that so far has kept me out of trouble. Luckily there are none here in Spain, so I don't have to worry about them now. Hope your life is equally monkey-free these days.

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Faye
1/26/2022 01:33:21 am

Remember the old song “Too Much Monkey Business”? That’s my very strong opinion on that monkey-human thing! Surely those scientific brains can be utilized in so many other beneficial and ethical ways!

I like “we have met the pandemic response team and it is us”. If only EVERYONE saw it that way!

The “Dancing in the Rain” painting (love it) reminds me of a plaque on my wall which reads “Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass, but about learning to dance in the rain.” Life is the dance.

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Karen McCann
1/26/2022 05:54:04 pm

I love that plaque about learning to dance in the rain, Faye. In fact, I thought of those words when I saw this painting. Such a good philosophy, especially in these stormy times. And yes, like you, I wish everybody appreciated that they're part of the pandemic response team. I feel grateful to be here in Spain, where there isn't all the political nonsense around the issue. The pandemic is treated as exactly what it is: a public health crisis. Maybe that's because Spain has seen its share of plagues in the past and has learned how to cope with them. Perhaps we'll all do better next time.

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Linda Haas
1/26/2022 02:27:29 am

Love your last quote, Life is the dance! Linda

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Karen McCann
1/26/2022 05:54:22 pm

Thanks, Linda. I love it too!

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Tobey Hiller
1/26/2022 02:57:26 am

Both profound and funny, Karen. Sheesh, the world. As it's always been, I guess. You probably know the Ishiguro book, written a while ago, called "Never Let Me Go," which is about--and from the pt. of view of--some human clones who have been developed to grow up and be subjects for harvesting organs for "actual" humans. OOOOOgh! But, whatever world we're entering, we're here, it was ever thus, and laughter, good food, and good friends have ALWAYS been the way to go. For which I thank you.

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Karen McCann
1/26/2022 06:11:35 pm

I have seen "Never Let Me Go" but not read it; I somehow found the topic a bit daunting. I'm a huge fan of science, but I'm well aware that it takes a lot of humanity and common sense to keep it from running amok, as in "The Island of Dr. Moreau" and "Frankenstein." But as you say, the world has always been full of horrors, and the best way to avoid becoming overwhelmed by them is sharing food, fellowship, and laughter as often as possible. Sometimes I wish I could tell that to the protagonists in horror movies: "Leave the haunted house, round up some friends, go to dinner. You'll live longer!" But they probably wouldn't listen anyway.

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