I have safely returned from my trip to the doctor! It all went very well. For once I had a pleasant surprise: The brutal martial law painted by the media was nowhere to be seen... not a single soldier and I barely noticed a few police officers doing their thing. Ironically it ended up being more relaxing than normal trips thanks to the low number of people: No longer was there a human sea spilling like soda from a bottle, which I always had to avoid because it grosses me out... both the subway and even the market had a normal number of people for once, hell I'm actually gonna miss this once the state of emergency is over! There were only a few minor and rather funny annoyances that I've ran into.

So the clinic was legally required to have me sign a form with dumb shit written on it. You have to pinkie promise that you haven't met people from other countries, don't have any sick relatives, haven't felt like coughing or that you're getting a fever, and other ways the state felt it could take the opportunity to stick its nose up your butthole. And of course none of it was possible without a big reminder of the form "remember that if you're lying to us you can get 15 years in prison" every step of the way. Since none of the items included "are you a furry" "are you into vore" or "do you like loli or cub porn" I guess won't be visiting the gas chamber this season after all.

While waiting for the train to get back home, I couldn't help noticing the spck public service announcements spck being aired on the large screens across the station. Particularly the one teaching you how to wash your hands with soap... and by that I mean literal kindergarten basics of the form "rotate the faucet to get the water running, now let a bit of water pour over your hands, now press this little button so a little soap falls into your little palm, then put that finger over this finger and this finger through that other finger". Gee society: Quite the subliminal way of telling us we're all mentally retarded, but luckily your heroic efforts are lifting us from our mental disability by reminding us to put one leg in front of the other to walk. Walking's pretty complicated too after all... if in doubt don't take the chance, take professional walking lessons: 1 in 1.000.000 people die every year from tripping on a beer bottle, don't risk your life and the lives of those around you, we love you you poor defenseless criminals!

Upon returning to my neighborhood and going through the market to buy my treatment, I did end up seeing a chubby little piglet, hard at work questioning the true scourge and terror of society: A middle aged woman with groceries who looked "too old to be out at this hour" (this hour meaning 4 PM). Although I found that pretty shitty, I admit I felt the taste of irony this time: Seeing boomers experience similar social repression to the unjustified shit they love doing to people under 18. Heck it even has the "it's for your own safety and to defend you from yourself" part! All that's left is to target a random category of websites and pointlessly fill them with banners reading "no overage people allowed, you must be younger than 65 to enter, click here to confirm you're of legal age": When getting a taste of your own medicine, the whole box must be administered sometimes, cardboard packaging and instructions manual included.

Other than such oddities and soap bottles randomly hanging from strings everywhere, everything was actually normal and chill. The takeaway is that the media can make a firecracker seem like a nuclear explosion and an ant as big as a whale; What I saw on the news led me to believe there's an armed militia in every station randomly questioning everyone, in a world where people are capable of any dumb shit whenever they're scared by other dumb shit. Although it's rather difficult, some events did make me take a step back and question whether instead of being at war with the everyone, I might just be in the same boat as everyone in some aspects. Maybe those measures weren't intended as an exercise in martial law, but authorities actually thought they're going to hinder the virus? Lower level authorities that is... at higher levels they've been preparing for such an epidemic since two years ago, as if they magically knew what was about to happen, hint hint. I'll continue keeping my eyes peeled, but at the same time working on becoming capable of believing that not everything is a conspiracy 100% of the time.