Subtitles section Play video
-
Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Quotes 276. We have another one today by
-
Stephen King that is that really relates to what is happening in the world today.
-
What's happening right now. So let's take a look at the quote first.
-
"Panic is highly contagious" and this is true you know, we see that you know when
-
some people panic it spreads more and more people panic. Today we can see this
-
with everybody buying up all the products in the stores and people
-
worried about this corona virus. So here's one way how it really relates. So " Panic
-
is highly contagious, especially when nothing is known and
-
everything is in flux. " Okay. Let's start covering it. This quote
-
is being repeated a lot now due to the coronavirus crisis. It is related to the
-
chrono virus crisis in a couple of ways. One the corona virus is presently and
-
causing a lot of worldwide panic. Second Stephen King wrote a book called "The
-
Stand . " I do remember this. I used to be a very big Stephen King fan when I was
-
young. I think I read about his first seven or eight books or something like
-
that. And "The Stand" was one of them. It's a long book for him and that, that's why
-
I you know they've only made it into miniseries. It's very difficult to put it
-
in the movie theater because it was so long ... that was released in 1980. Okay. That
-
book was about a virus that escaped from a bio-weapon lab and killed off 99% of
-
the population. You know in the book. Okay. The one percent that was left. You
-
know who just for some reason had some immunity to this disease. So 1% of all
-
the people on Earth didn't get killed by this disease... was left had a stand . A
-
fight between good and evil. That was also very interesting part of this book
-
was when all was said and done the people that were left... there was still
-
the battle was still between good and evil. Some people were good. Some people were evil
-
of the ones that did survive. All right. Let's continue. The part of the quote in
-
which he says nothing is known also relates to today. The origin of this
-
virus is still very much in question. Now of course the official story is that it
-
came from a wet market and that maybe some people ate bat soup they who and the
-
bat had bit a Pangolin , but a lot of people don't know. This , this is really
-
kind of very unprovable and it's very questionable. But this is the story
-
that's kind of pushed out there. Even though last time when we had the SARS
-
crisis it was the same sort of story with a civet and that was never proven
-
and I don't even think it really is provable. So a lot of people are still in
-
question. Like how did this disease come about ? There is a lot of conspiracy
-
theories. One of them is that it came from a bio-lab in China. We don't know or
-
maybe somebody else is behind it. Maybe somebody else. Maybe not China at all.
-
Maybe somebody else spread this for for other ulterior motives or other reasons.
-
Okay. So that's why a lot ... we say a lot is still unknown. Okay. Okay people also
-
don't really know how far it will go. That's right. You know because we think
-
it's going to stop somewhere, but it just keeps seeming to spread into one country,
-
into another country and every country keeps getting hit with it. The world is
-
in flux. It means everything is in constant change. Every day we're hearing
-
different stories about you know, how it is spread here and spreading there. This
-
is closing down and it's closing down factories and there's also the issue
-
that if we're stopping the whole economic world economy it is practically
-
coming to a standstill which could cause other major problems too. We, we might
-
even crash the whole economic system. So this is also important. So everything is
-
in change. That, that's also playing into this situation causing more fear , more
-
more influx and and people are you know, panicking about you know having supplies.
-
Just in case every everything gets even that much worse. On the bright side
-
though as of making this video. You know just last week they are talking about
-
that there might be a cure on the way and I know in France they did some study
-
with using the same drug that they use for malaria and it looks very promising.
-
So there is ... there is a little light at the end of the tunnel if that works out. So
-
that's one good , good point about this. Let's continue here with this one.
-
However , Stephen King prefers that people do not ... do not compare you know, his, his
-
fictional virus to the corona virus. He says his virus is much worse. It
-
knocked off 99% of the people on Earth. And this one won't do that. Even at its
-
worst , it should not do that. It's more like maybe you know 1% of the places
-
they get hit by it you know, or 1% of the people that actually contract it. Not
-
even 1% of the population ...might seem to... maybe might die from this. Hopefully, now
-
hopefully it'll be as few as possible and hopefully there really is a cure on
-
the way. And he's not that crazy about it being compared but yet it's all ironic
-
because he's quote and everything kind of fits together. And it's all very
-
suitable to what is happening right at the moment. Okay. Anyway, I hope you liked it.
-
I hope you find it informative. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.