‽istis
reclaims Apples and Apples (weekending
May 30th 2020)
‽istis considers apples and wonders about addressing similarities within differences, and differences within similarities; ponders the challenge of comparing like with like:
‽
the dreadful Covid-19
death rates, one country compared to another in some sort of macabre
international league; which nation will be first?…
‽
the Covid-19 graphs
and ‘curves’ of devastation compared to the graphs that have never been given a
daily briefing: deaths of civilians in conflict, from malnutrition, from
suicide, from insanitary conditions, from lack of access to immunisation and health
care; numbers of refugees and people displaced from home, levels of social
inequality, levels of addiction, levels of child abuse, levels of domestic abuse,
levels abuse of vulnerable people the world over…[i]
‽
the quantity
of so many deaths from Covid-19 compared with the awful quality of the tragic
experience of every single individual person, a partner, a parent, a child, a grandchild
…
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the relative influence and value of strategists, operational logisticians
and managers, of practitioners and every variety of essential worker - the
comparative influence of ‘scientists’, experts, advisers or politicians or us…
‽
your actions under
‘lockdown’ guidance compared with mine, or compared with most people’s…
And ‽istis wonders whether the lapsarian fruit (in the middle of the garden, good for food, pleasant to the eyes and a tree to be desired to make one wise[ii]) was even an apple? But surely the guidance not to eat it doesn’t actually apply to us anyway…? Yet once bitten, twice shy and, perhaps unlike many ‘Emperors’, they knew that they were naked…
Meanwhile, ‽istis, ponders whether plans may be afoot for a gold-standard randomized control trial (RCT) – possibly ever since a world leader may have daydreamed about the contents of their lunch box during a press briefing? – comparing the relative effectiveness of a daily ingestion of apples and oranges in keeping the Doctor away…
© Pistis
[i]
See previous blog entries including: https://pistisrec.blogspot.com/2020/04/pistis-reclaims-next-slide-please-and.html?view=flipcard
[ii] Genesis
3 v 3-4 (King James’ version)
