Coronavirus = Taking Profits
In one of my favourite films: 'Pump Up The Volume', there is a slogan sprayed on the wall of a high school: 'The Truth Is A Virus'. Right now, the world is struggling with a virus, and that's the coronavirus. Never mind the fact that the mortality rate is actually low , or the fact that you could be having flu - or even just a bad hangover (in the UK someone was hospitalized for 3 days with suspected coronavirus until it was found out that he had imbibed too much a few days beforehand). The world is panicking, and the media's not helping. Look, it's not to say that anyone dying from a disease is a good - or funny - thing. It wasn't back in the days with flu and polio reeked havoc, it wasn't when the AIDS virus destroyed many in the 1980s, and it still isn't when malaria-driven areas of Africa took account of over 400,000 people in 2018 . I think that's why I resent people calling the virus the 'beer virus' (Corona-Vi...