(OPINION) Michael Snyder – After everything that has taken place over the past year, there shouldn’t be a need to sound the alarm any longer, because everyone should be awake by now. But of course, that is not the case.
At this moment, the vast majority of the population is still dead asleep. This greatly frustrates me, because there has been warning after warning, but most people choose not to listen.
Since I am a sports fan, I like to use sports analogies, and to me it certainly appears that we have been given a series of “2-minute warnings” over the past 12 months. Humanity is steamrolling toward disaster, and time is running out. Unfortunately, to a very large extent, the warnings are not being taken seriously.
Let’s start by talking about COVID. Every time I write a new article about COVID, some of my readers inevitably become very frustrated with me. In fact, I have had a number of people send me emails that try to convince me that the COVID pandemic is not that serious.
And I agree with that point 100 percent. Compared to other killer pandemics throughout human history, COVID is small potatoes. COVID has killed more than half a million people in the United States, and the global death toll is now above 2.5 million. Every single person that dies without hope represents a great tragedy, and I don’t want to minimize that one bit.
But the truth is that tens of millions of people around the world die from disease every single year, and that will continue to happen whether there is a COVID pandemic or not. COVID is simply not a main event. READ MORE
