To echo the words of the late Baudrillard, "Covid did not happen." By this, I don't mean that there was no such virus, but that the entirety of our culture's understanding of it is mediated. The direct experience of it is totally lost in all the symbolic chatter flying every which way throughout the culture. The possibility of a true picture of it was never possible. We are lost in an epistemic fog whose vapor we cannot see through.

It's things like the covid phenomenon that convince me that the answer to Fermat's Paradox is inevitable self destruction. Humanity is a toddler lost in a factory