What if Omicron Were an Alien Invader?

If Omicron were an alien invader, would we come together as a planet to fight it then? Would we send out the bat signal or summon the Transformers to come help?

More likely, knowing us contrarian earthlings, we’d perceive the helpers/Transformers as the enemy, as happened in Age of Extinction. People of earth were told both the Decepticons and the the Transformer Autobots were enemies. Many stupid earth people believed it. Imagine that. They attacked my favorite, Bumblebee, causing him to lose his stereo system, hence his “voice.” Holy radio waves, Batman.

Are you seeing the metaphors here? No? How about silence the rescuers and spread propaganda instead. Anything to keep the planet from uniting in the common cause of survival.

In most alien invasion movies, such as Independence Day the world unites in one way or another to fight off threats from aliens who are actual bad guys. Sometimes there’s a division between those who want to understand the aliens and those who want to destroy them, as in It Came From Outer Space. At least the faction against immediately destroying the invaders is trying to understand them. Unlike virus deniers.

However, when the chips are down, quite literally with Decepticons, or the planet is in danger of extinction, as with the creepy aliens who Will Smith’s character says smelled bad in Independence Day, all the countries of earth put aside their differences and join in the battle. Most of the time we win.

Maybe if scientists had named the first detected COVID virus Omicron instead of the harmless sounding Alpha, which sounds like a cute dog’s name, we would have had more respect for the danger and joined as a planet to fight it.

Or, if the heads of government, with the likely exception of the U.S. Orange Menace, had declared the virus to have come from outer space, we would have joined hands and put out our arms for the vaccine. Not at the same time of course.

Wait, some scientists are saying exactly that!

A report in Express.co.uk quoted astrobiologist Chandra Wickramasing:

Don’t scoff yet. This theory comes from a scientific paper published by no less a source than the National Institute of Health.

I’m not casting aspersions, although I’ve written scientific research papers in my day, and we were discouraged from writing adamant statements such as the following:

I’m not casting aspersions because having the COVID virus actually COME FROM SPACE fits my narrative. Here’s more of the theory from the same research paper:

Link with a direct strike of meteorite over central-North East China, October 11, 2019

In simpler words, COVID came from space on a meteorite which crashed in China and whose virus carrying dust debris then spread through parts of China including Wuhan. As people infect each other with the space alien virus, the meteor dust continues to disperse through the other countries on our planet. Hey, stranger stuff happens.

So there you have it, fellow earthlings. COVID came from space. Therefore it is an alien invader which must be destroyed by the alliance and cooperation of all earth’s citizens. Cue dramatic, inspirational music.

No more arguing and division. Everyone on the planet will get the vaccine, wear the damned masks, join hands with people in China and all the people in all the countries, while maintaining social distance of course.

Let’s come together and kick Omicron’s butt. We’ll show that alien invader what we’re made of as a planet!

Never mind that the authors of the research paper say that the meteor dust itself will provide herd immunity, and we won’t need a vaccine. That sounds a lot like alien space invader mutants, who can inhabit the bodies of humans, thus making them transporters of alien DNA , to later rip out from their bellies a la Aliens, propaganda to me. And we’ve all seen what propaganda during a world-wide viral invasion leads to.

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This post was previously published on MuddyUm.

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