Nothing — no piece of matter, no moment in contemporary history, no point on the space/time continuum — has been or will be immune to it. This is simply the way the world is now: with a fixed point of inevitability.
And this was nothing if not inevitable:
The inevitable finally happened.
The coronavirus has caught influencers. There's something oddly comforting in the knowledge that the most immediate threat to global health shares the same, singular immunodeficiency as everything else in the universe — short perhaps of nuclear holocaust — and its conclusion:
The ability to be posed alongside. With all apologies to T.S. Eliot: Not with a bang, but with a fave. Smash that mf button, king.
In related news, the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a public health emergency this week, it's spread to every populous continent (with a rapidly climbing death toll), and the government of China — where, it's worth pointing out, it originated — is arresting people for writing about it in ways they see unfit online.
ALSO SEE: Here Come the Coronavirus Influencers [Daily Dot]
OH YOU'LL WANT TO READ THIS, TOO: How Not to Be an Influencer During a Coronavirus Outbreak [Slate]
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