Today I read whether or not to compare the corona measures with WWII everywhere on social media. Just as clear: I am blessed with the fact that I have known and known many people who have known World War II in different phases of their lives and that I have so many first-hand stories about this.
Yes, I see similarities. The night clock. Actually, it's also called the repression. The pressure to betray your neighbors.
It doesn't stop at this either. The finger on certain sections of the population is beginning to annoy me more and more. Personally, I do not believe that there is anything responsible for this misery, except for a small organism, that we cannot see with the naked eye.
I have no information to tell me whether or not the virus is natural. Actually, as an author and humanist, I am more focused on the human aspect of this crisis and I am not so concerned with conspiracy theories.
What strikes me very strongly is that tolerance goes below zero in many people, just at a time when we may all need it more than ever. I plead guilty. My toes are longer than usual, too. I've never blocked as many people as lately.
I've never had such a shitstorm of reproaches about me, by honestly saying my opinion.
Now, I notice that everyone feels targeted and starting to see things that reflect the climate of WWII. I remember somewhere when French President Macron said we were waging a war on a virus.
I have the pleasure of having known a sufragette in my youth. She was the first female student at the Belgian University and was a dentist. She's been through both wars and the Spanish flu up close. She was a wise woman, ahead of her time. I may have to agree with her on this one. Sometimes man is stepping backwards from forward.
I'm hearing calls now to betray your neighbors. I also read that this can have serious consequences. Another acquaintance of mine was the daughter of a collaborator. Her father thought he was doing the right thing. They locked him in the cages of the Zoo here in Antwerp. I also knew a woman who was severely mutilated because she fell in love during the war and got engaged to a Dark SS officer. Later research on this man showed that he was sent to the Eastern Front and died there in a Russian camp in 1947. Apparently his superior got wind of letting Jewish children escape. His parents were prominent members of the Nazi Party. He didn't support them, but he had to play along with the game.
I'm getting that feeling again. My grandmother was from the East Cantons. She ran a café in French-speaking Belgium. It was like Secret Army or Allo Allo. Germans in her room, Resistance at the back door. She was the only one in the region who could perfectly German and got a dash for it. She was the only one who was allowed to trade liquor. The fact that she sometimes sent bottles of brandy to the doctor who worked for the Resistance didn't always make things simple.
She mainly listened to the German soldiers in her room. The majority of these young men met the Krieg, wanted to go home and hated the Führer.
Now young people are getting their asses out again. Again they look like cannon meat. They are quickly portrayed as bad. The spreader of the virus.
Even worse it is for certain groups. The Jews in Antwerp. They're feeling stamped again. They can no longer experience their culture and traditions the way they want it.
The Muslims are getting blamed again.
THE BLAOK AGAIAIT. If it is not THE Jews, THE Muslims, it is THE people who do not comply with the rules, THE people who do not want to get vaccinated.
Or it's THE Chinese who want to plunk our economy.
Nobody wants to face the possible truth: we have governments that have skimmed care. Scientists who take it better and a new state in these times, which is as old as humanity, but from which we apparently haven't learned anything.
We forgot what the Spanish flu was. The plague? It still exists, but we've forgotten that the bodies filled the streets through it. We have forgotten that despite all that, we are still there as a species. There are more of us than ever, but we all seem to have lost something.
- What? I wouldn't know the begot either.

Corona and WWII