Where am I? I can not breathe. The voices are mumbling and moaning, can not say what they say..
Is it Paris, Texas, somewhere Siberia, some village in Romania or Slovenia, Austria or …? Or a ghetto, a slum anywhere?
The sounds in the hall are dire. It is all haze, the neon lamps shine through the human emotions fog.Packed Bed to bed, horrible smell. The stench.Led lights bleeping.Moaning and groaning.
The martian vest clad figure is approaching me.
“ Hi, I am your Doctor” , Doctor says mumbling out of his suit.
“ Hi”, Witchdoctor whispers.
Doctor: “How are you, you seem , hmm, really worn out”
WD: “ I feel, am finished”
Doctor: “ That is exactly what I came to talk with you. We have to decide…”
WD” Yes, the TRIAGE”
Doctor: “ See this guy lying near you? He is in his forties, strong… It is you or him”
WD : “ You really do not waste your time Doc. No small talk, just plain out out, do you?”
Doc: “Well, you know.. khm, you had and lived your time and you know how the things work. He, there,he is strong.”
WD : “I see, he has tattoos all over him, some fake celtic design, He must be a sort of Nazi no vax or similar” Hey, he is looking at us smiling.”
Doc: “ Yes, he is a no vax, I know his parents. Also a sort of a Patriot, if you understand the meaning, do you?”
WD “ So, I was always in favor of the zero Covid Strategy, masks, distancing, lockdown if necessary, and now, he , the fake Celt,will win the race, isn`t it?”
Doc: “ Listen, that is politics, I only do my job”
WD : “They all say that. But , before you triage me to the nowhere land, I just want to complain a little… I took vaccine shots, too. And I know where I got the covid, it was in some public office I went because I had to go. I had on me my best fpp3 mask, atop of it a chirurgical one, and I knew. The air there was from the last week, I could feel it…”
Doc: “ I know, bad luck. But that is not my problem. My work is to terminate your cure as gently as it can be done..”
WD : “If you dare to call this treatment I have a cure, then, be it.. Tell me, do they pay you well? I heard some of you get more in a month than I sometimes worked for and earned in a whole year?”
Doc: “ I really can not complain. That is why I am not in politics, you see? I mind my own business”
WD: “Ok. How about that,you say politics, you know Covid is a respiratory illness, coming from breathing, mostly?”
Doc: “ Look. I have no time to speak this obvious things now…”
WD interrupts: “ Look, it is only 60 seconds and it is me you are cutting off for good, ok? So, Covid is transmitted by inhaling and exhaling, breathing…
You know what does it means, do you?
Doc: “ Come on, cut the crap!”
WD: “ No crap, I am talking to your being a doctor. SO, to cut the virus spread, in any surge phase, you need to stop breathing to my face or in my space. You and us need to make a lockdown, keep out of my sight, keep distances, aerate spaces…. isolate, you know? I think this antivax Fake Celt lying over there might know well that, too. “
Doc:” I see your point, but I told you, I am not a politician. I do not want to be involved. And yes, I try to keep the distance, even with you now, mental one included.”
WD: “ So, are you for eliminating the virus, lockdown included? You said that it is crap my talking about breathing the virus around must be stopped? See, I am vaccinated and regardless of that I am lying here. It means this vaccine is not enough… You are counting even the vaccinated as having bad luck.I do not think that is a fair deal. I will not talk morals it looks that that morals is long gone,I am talking about the social contract.”
Doc: “ My friend, listen. This talk and argument goes well beyond me. I do not want to be involved in the solutions you propose, nobody does.
We do not want to stop, we want to work and earn.
I am here to triage the patients and no politics involved. Slowly this will end one way or another, and everybody left will be happy it is over”
WD:” But to triage me, to cut me off? Is not politics? Life and death?”
Doc: “ I can not help it. Whatever else I do, it will be worse. I am fixing the here and now, and the rest is not my to do”
WD: “ I see… hmm , have you been always pro business in this covid mess? Keep on keeping on, whatever the human cost?
I know it is personal, but, since I will be gone in a very short time, you can confide in me, There is no one I could repeat this conversation..”
Doc was casting glances around.
Doc: “ To tell you the truth, I became a doctor because there was money in it, too. So, I am always pro business, at the end. But let me tell you, all this people lying here think the same as me. Witchdoctor, you chose a wrong place to be.We , me included, just want to go through this mess as smooth as possible. You have chosen the wrong person to complain….. Doc made a brief pause. “Anyway. For you, this questions you are putting in front of me are already late in this hour of your life ”
WD: “ I see. you are telling me that the vast majority, left, center , right, believers, non believers catholics, no vax or not, all agree on this idiotic way of handling the situation. It is the same to say, they are all guilty, so none is guilty.Collective guilt washed by the collective groupthink. You know, such situation in history is always a watershed for the new order sprouting from this all guilty, hence none is guilty mindset.And from this premises, the new order is going to be much worse than the previous. It is the dirty devil business coming.You are selling your , already tiny degrees of freedom, by keeping on in this infernal machine outcome.Time ahead is out of your horizon and that means final entropy for you too, living it… I will not say I do not blame you, do not expect it.
So, how about letting me out, back to my house and I will wait there for the end, or a miracle?”
Doc: “ You know, once you are here, it is hotel California. You can not check out.”
WD: “ Look, it is very simple. There are tens of thousands of infected people right now walking the streets. One more or less, like me, who is only going to his house to stay there… I have 500 euros in my pocket…. I also know a taxi driver… here is the number… You are pro business, don˙t you?”
Doc: “ Well, my TRIAGE job is over.It turned for the best, at the end, you want to be discharged…. Have a nice trip. I will send for a wheel chair for you, in minutes.”