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The end of the world we knew
Mar. 14th, 2020 09:43 amSo, yeah, yesterday was a nice day up until evening when I returned home and read the news.
At first I went to see the innauguration of our first woman-President, which took place outside of the Parliament building. There were all highest ranking officials, both civil and military. Prime Minister, commanders-in-chief of the Greek Army, Navy and Air Forces etc. Ordinary people were standing on the other side of Syntagma, behind the ropes and a few policemen in their full dress uniforms here and there. Everything was blocked basically. There were not so many people, about few hundred. There were cameramen and photographers everywhere, a camera crane and even a drone flying all over the square. The ceremony began at about 11:45 with a parade of Evzones with their orchestra, like it happens at 11:00 on Sundays. Then all these officials came down the Parliament's stairs and formed a line, showing their back to the public. On the left side of the upper platform soldiers and seamen sang the national anthem. Then the President descended the stairs. She didn't address the public, in fact, I haven't seen her full-face, except for a few times behind the backs of all the officials present, and these moments were too short to take a photo. Then she boarded the official Presidential car and headed to the Presidential mansion. The Evzones went back to their barracks, again as it happens on Sundays at 11:00, and this was it. At about 12:20 everything was over.
As it was sunny and hot, I caught the metro train and spent the rest of the day till sunset on the Μπάτης beach. There were about fifty people there at a single time, some of them swimming in the sea.
And then I returned home and finally read the news.
So, our museums are now closed too, as well as all clubs, sports venues etc. The number of people using public transport dropped 30%. Customers are storming supermarkets, buying toilet paper, soap, pasta and canned food. F1 season is suspended indefinitely. I received a long letter from Ryanair with apologies for any possible inconinience, I guess they are sending these letters to everybody who had ever used their airline. Half of Europe is blocked in some way or other. Russia will suspend flights to EU since the 16th of March. So tourism is dead too.
Etc.
I've got a full-screen pop-up window urging me to stay at home every time I visit the local weather website, I have to close it before being able to see the weather forecast.
Yeah, stay at home and watch TV and don't panic. These news about markets collapsing, people storming shops and countries being blocked all over the world will surely relieve you, oh yeah. Don't panic, just watch good positive absolutely non-panicky news the whole day long.
For fuck's sake, please show us Swan Lake already, preferably on the every TV channel of the world.
Fucking shit, right now, while typing this, I received a letter from my bank about coronavirus, haven't opened it yet, of course.
Like yeah, keep calm and don't panic.
Bill Gates stepped down yesterday, and Jeff Bezos is hiding in his bunker in New Zealand for a week already, and Warren Buffet hasn't seen anything like that during his entire life, and markets are plummeting, and bitcoin collapsed, but you have virtually no reasons to panic, right.
Fuck you fuck you fuck you all, this world deserves to burn in hell, what else can I say.
At first I went to see the innauguration of our first woman-President, which took place outside of the Parliament building. There were all highest ranking officials, both civil and military. Prime Minister, commanders-in-chief of the Greek Army, Navy and Air Forces etc. Ordinary people were standing on the other side of Syntagma, behind the ropes and a few policemen in their full dress uniforms here and there. Everything was blocked basically. There were not so many people, about few hundred. There were cameramen and photographers everywhere, a camera crane and even a drone flying all over the square. The ceremony began at about 11:45 with a parade of Evzones with their orchestra, like it happens at 11:00 on Sundays. Then all these officials came down the Parliament's stairs and formed a line, showing their back to the public. On the left side of the upper platform soldiers and seamen sang the national anthem. Then the President descended the stairs. She didn't address the public, in fact, I haven't seen her full-face, except for a few times behind the backs of all the officials present, and these moments were too short to take a photo. Then she boarded the official Presidential car and headed to the Presidential mansion. The Evzones went back to their barracks, again as it happens on Sundays at 11:00, and this was it. At about 12:20 everything was over.
As it was sunny and hot, I caught the metro train and spent the rest of the day till sunset on the Μπάτης beach. There were about fifty people there at a single time, some of them swimming in the sea.
And then I returned home and finally read the news.
So, our museums are now closed too, as well as all clubs, sports venues etc. The number of people using public transport dropped 30%. Customers are storming supermarkets, buying toilet paper, soap, pasta and canned food. F1 season is suspended indefinitely. I received a long letter from Ryanair with apologies for any possible inconinience, I guess they are sending these letters to everybody who had ever used their airline. Half of Europe is blocked in some way or other. Russia will suspend flights to EU since the 16th of March. So tourism is dead too.
Etc.
I've got a full-screen pop-up window urging me to stay at home every time I visit the local weather website, I have to close it before being able to see the weather forecast.
Yeah, stay at home and watch TV and don't panic. These news about markets collapsing, people storming shops and countries being blocked all over the world will surely relieve you, oh yeah. Don't panic, just watch good positive absolutely non-panicky news the whole day long.
For fuck's sake, please show us Swan Lake already, preferably on the every TV channel of the world.
Fucking shit, right now, while typing this, I received a letter from my bank about coronavirus, haven't opened it yet, of course.
Like yeah, keep calm and don't panic.
Bill Gates stepped down yesterday, and Jeff Bezos is hiding in his bunker in New Zealand for a week already, and Warren Buffet hasn't seen anything like that during his entire life, and markets are plummeting, and bitcoin collapsed, but you have virtually no reasons to panic, right.
Fuck you fuck you fuck you all, this world deserves to burn in hell, what else can I say.
