Last night was one of those times of laying awake for hours thinking about … well just thinking about all sorts of things.

A particularly scary thought came up with my wondering if it is possible that we are actually in the middle of something like an armed insurrection, something along the lines of those old novels such as Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 or George Orwell’s 1984. I wondered how we would know, and what would it take to get us to do something about it. Perhaps more importantly, if there is an ongoing effort at an insurrection, what is the purpose?

One thing that seems to be common with all of this is a desire to be rid of government in all of its forms. Get rid of regulations, get rid of taxes, get rid of social support systems, get rid of bothersome laws concerning the separation of church and state, and of course outlaw abortion – just get it all out of our lives. What is never discussed is whether this also means getting rid of roads, schools, social security, research into health care, various forms of incentives to support things like job creation, efforts to ensure safe foods and other products, municipal water and sewage systems, the military, protection of the environment, etc. I wonder to what end the apparently push to eliminate the United States of America might be. (If we eliminate government we will at the same time eliminate the USA because it consists of the government). Obviously the point isn’t to eliminate everything, rather it is to overthrow the parts that are “bothersome.”

There are a lot of people in the USA and beyond that have an “insurrectionist bent” given what happened at the capital last month. We have been hearing about large numbers of people buying vast numbers of guns and ammunition, stockpiling weapons for some dangerous future. We see changes in the make up of the Supreme Count and the Republican side of congress, and we just experienced a rather unusual President. We are also trapped in a world where it is almost impossible to sort fact from fiction, and where many politicians have given up having even the pretense of being truthful – doublespeak and outright lies are the order of the day in some powerful positions.

What really popped into my head was the question of whether perhaps the covid-19 pandemic is being used as a type of terrorist activity. I wonder if it is possible that the “super spreader” events aren’t intentional actions in support of some sort of planned insurrection along the lines of Al Quaeda or other terrorist groups using germ warfare in place of terror in the form of suicide bombers, booby trapped bombs, beheadings and the like. This type of apparently random terror attacks are used as weapons in support of their efforts to overthrow their governments. The pandemic could provide a very convenient weapon with a similar outcome. I don’t think anyone intentionally started the pandemic, but perhaps since it is here it might as well be weaponized. That would account for the anti-masker/anti-distancing movements, as well as the continuing occurrence of superspreader events, that have combined to result in about 500,000 deaths (2.5 million deaths worldwide so far), and a similar number of ICU patients in the USA. We knew enough to stop the pandemic long ago using well known and proven actions to stop it by eliminating the spread, but many people have elected to take actions to prevent that from occurring. Killing that many people with suicide bombs would be impractical and might catch people’s attention, but doing it by subtle germ warfare is a lot more difficult to prove – although it is having similar impacts on people’s lives and the economy. Do these superspreader events represent loosely affiliated terrorist cells? Do the folks in their big pickups with giant American flags, and large groups with MAGA hats and Trump flags represent local cells? I wonder if many of those people are armed and ready to fight?

If the pandemic is in fact being used as a weapon in an ongoing insurrection, what is going to happen when it is finally brought under control with vaccines? Will this result in an escalation using real weapons, or will it continue in the form of legal battles in the halls of governments? And if it is an actual insurrection, what might the goals be beyond getting rid of government “interference?” It appears pretty clear that two major goals have something to do with furthering the causes of white supremacy and fundamentalist Christianity. If this is actually happening, how it is being funded? Does the funding come mainly from “regular” individuals, or are there a few major contributors, perhaps some of the richest people in the world believe they have something to gain by an insurrection. Maybe they see the possibility of not only having control of the money, but also have control of everything else as well. If there is an underground of insurrection with the goal of overthrowing our government, I wonder how long it has been going on.