Hentrich,
Thank you for your words. The government has tightened the measures until April 12. The Minister of the Interior even said that alcoholic beverages delivery will not be allowed after 23:00 pm. After this date we do not know what will happen. An epidemiologist said that probably between 30 and 60 percent will be infected by the bug.
The Paraguayan population is 7 million inhabitants. So it is expected that more than 2 million will be infected. And this is the most optimistic estimate. The death toll, in my view, will be thousands specially in the capital and central department. The authorities insist that they want to save lives. In reality they will postpone our deaths.
I see the police and the military enforcing the measures. This is a strange combination. They are our jailers and prisoners at the same time. However at any time they can pull the trigger. I heard one army officer talking to a security guard in a supermarket. He said that they are all very nervous. They too will suffer the consequences. We are seeing the deliberate destruction of the economic system around the world.
The doctors and nurses here have few resources to cope with what is coming. In the end as you say they will burn out.
Your question: “Why do so many fail to see the connection between the womb and the grave?” In Catholic
countries mostly women are seen as exemplary and virtuous heroines. Again this lockdown will bring many babies. Couples will be doing what they have done since fire was brought to this world.
I remember someone quoting this author, Charles Hoy Fort, who suggested in a dark way that we, the human species, are “animals here for the slaughter and incapable of seeing the greater and more terrible meanings that surround us.”
Take care and take a nap.