Mentevirus: Deadlier Than Coronavirus

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by a newly discovered coronavirus. At this time, there are no specific vaccines or treatments for COVID-19. However, there are many ongoing clinical trials evaluating potential treatments.

What if we hear that humanity is being driven to the brink of extinction by an illness? That all the poverty, the climate devastation, the perpetual war, and consumption fetishism we see all around us have roots in a mass psychological infection? What if we are being told that this infection is not just highly communicable but also self-replicating, according to the laws of evolution of culture, and that it remains so clandestine in our psyches that most hosts will, as a condition of their infected state, vehemently deny that they are infected? What if we are then told that this ‘mind virus’ can be described as a form of cannibalism. Yes, cannibalism. Not necessarily in the literal flesh-eating sense but rather the idea of consuming others – human and non-human – as a means of securing personal wealth and supremacy.

Please do not dismiss this line of thinking as another conspiracy theory. This approach of viewing the transmission of ideas as a key determinant of the emergent reality is increasingly validated by various branches of science, including evolutionary theory, quantum physics, cognitive linguistics, and epigenetics.

What is being missed out in the World’s War against CONVID-19 is that another infectious psychological disease caused by a mind virus is simultaneously infecting the world much more aggressively and is a companion of the newly discovered coronavirus. Let us for the time being label this mind-virus as MENTEVIRUS.

There are at least three distinctly identifiable variants of MENTEVIRUS infecting people at this time – MENTEVIRUS-COMMERCIO, MENTEVIRUS-INDIVIDUO, and MENTEVIRUS-POLITICO. It is unlikely but imminently possible that an individual is infected with more than one variant of MENTEVIRUS simultaneously. [Nomenclature drawn from the Italian language in memory of so many lives that Italy lost fighting War against CONVID-19]

MENTEVIRUS-COMMERCIO

This virus affects rich business people. The common symptoms are worries and anxieties like:

• How long before I downsize or stop?
• How long before my cash reserves and additional credits run out?
• By the time we return to “normal” many businesses will just not exist while others will be struggling.

MENTEVIRUS-INDIVIDUO

This virus affects individuals, mostly those who are neither rich businessmen nor politicians. The common symptoms are worries and anxieties like:

• How would I earn if I am locked at home?
• How long would my cash reserves and savings last?
• By the time we return to “normal” many people would have lost jobs and a meaningful economic slowdown is expected.

MENTEVIRUS-POLITICO

This virus affects rich business people. The common symptoms are worries and anxieties like:

• How much time I have before I am no longer able to defend the number of deaths?
• What if the rates of mortality and gravity of effect on health are actually extreme? What if one of the assumptions - that the virus is contagious and spreads exponentially is erroneous?
• By the time we return to “normal” the political leadership all over the world will be hard pressed to invest heavily in incentivising re-growth.

Catching a cold when you already have the flu - sounds like a nightmare scenario. Can someone catch two MENTEVIRUSES simultaneously? YES, though this may not happen very often. We need to be studying these MENTEVIRUSES together like they making an ecosystem. If we understand how mind-viruses interact and how certain infections caused by mind-viruses may favour or inhibit each other, then maybe we can develop better ways to target viruses.

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