“Yes, that’s right, global capitalism (a/k/a ‘the world’) is now at war with Death … which is great news for authoritarians!” writes satirist CJ Hopkins in his witty essay on the coronavirus scare. “No more bothersome critical thinking. The time for questioning our leaders is over. It’s time to shut up and follow orders. We’re in a global state of emergency, folks! We’re talking lockdowns, soldiers in the streets, abrogation of our constitutional rights, arbitrary arrests, indefinite detentions, round-the-clock media fear-propaganda … the whole totalitarian megillah!”

So that was Hopkins good news. Good news for those in charge.

“Oh, I almost forgot the bad news,” he continues later in the same piece. “The bad news is … well, the bad news is Death. The bad news is, you are going to die. I’m going to die. We are all going to die. All of us. We are going to die. We are going to die of … well, something. Cancer. A heart attack. A stroke. The flu. Diabetes. Alzheimer’s disease. Possibly a coronavirus. Maybe even this coronavirus.

“In fact, a lot of us are dying right now, according to the Internet, around a hundred per minute … which, it goes without saying, is unacceptable, and a tragedy, and something we need to take drastic action to prevent at all costs. We can’t let these… coronavirus-sympathizers confuse us. They want to convince us that Death is, yes, scary, and sad, but inevitable, and natural. How utterly heartless and insane is that?!…

“People are in full-blown headless chicken mode. No one (or hardly anyone) is thinking, or listening to dissenting opinions, or paying attention to official statistics, or common sense, or anything else that contradicts the War on Death narrative.”

Of course, a smaller subset did not react with fear, but rather medicated with positivity. Either way, the authoritarian elite are just as happy. But it’s still not too late to kick back.

You can read the C.J. Hopkin’s full essay at his equally witty website, The Consent Factory.