Several years ago I went with a group of friends to visit areas of the former Yugoslavia. On our travels we passed the once infamous Mostar airport. It was closed off, heavily overgrown and had red warning signs of lethal danger to anyone entering. We drove on by.
Fast forward to 2021, when a similar situation now exists worldwide. A dangerous but novel injection has been unleashed on the world disguised as a liberating intervention. Because only a small number (currently around 1,500,000 in the UK alone) suffer unwanted reactions and fewer die (2,087 in the UK reported up to 6th April 2022), it is decided that the risk is too low to worry people with warnings; after all, since this new form of mine is still experimental we don’t know if it works or not. So now that we have nothing to be concerned about, the door is open to add to the minefield as many other experimental weapons as we like. We cannot hear or see any explosions, yet, so pump as many as possible into arms before we do. Then if the noise of the explosions becomes too loud to ignore it can easily be blamed on another avian or porcine virus that we had not anticipated. We might even blame an opportunistic relationship between a bat and a pangolin.
The Mostar airport railings warned of dire consequences for those prepared to risk life and limb. Many years after being put up the threat and the warnings remain. They will stay in place unless and until steps are taken to remove the mines so that safety can be guaranteed. Perhaps this same approach should have been taken with the new experimental mines?
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