Kashmiri goats show the way

Tuesday 31st March

I think I have it!

Regular readers will know that I have worked ceaselessly expending every possible moment of time and surge of energy to find a solution to the problem of the coronavirus. I have recommended all sorts of remedies, from stiking shallots in your nostrils, to anti-aricraft guns up your proboscis. None of these seems to have caught on yet, but it is early days. Give it time to mature in people's minds.

However, something caught my eye today which gave me pause for thought.

Herds of Kashmiri goats, noticing there was no-one about, have descended from the hils around Great Orme into the Welsh county town of Llandudno. They are grazing on people's lawns and flowers with impunity. No-one comes out to shoo them away. Inside those houses isolating citizens see a goat appear at a window and think they are halucinating. They calmly open another bottle (or roll another joint) and carry on. The apparition goes.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-wales-52109712/coronavirus-goats-take-over-deserted-llandudno

This led me to the thought that although isolating people inside their houses is a good half-step, making us disappear altogether would deprive coronavirus of its food (or if it's not food it's after, then its homicidal wish to kill us). So, what if we disappeared? I mean if we just weren't around. The coronavirus would have no-one to infect would it?  It would then die off. Starvation presumably. Or terminal disappointment. Possibly both.

All we have to do is disappear. Surely it's not beyond the skills of modern science to make the whole population of the world disappear for a stretch while the coronavirus wanders about pining, looking forlorn, then finally lies down in a corner and shuffles off its mortal, if microscopic, coil. Then bingo, just apply the antidote and we're back in the game and it's full steam ahead with little time lost.

What's wrong with that? Childsplay for most of our modern scientists. The work of a moment. It's just poticians who lack the will to implement it.


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