Kapo-rona Syndrome

A kapo was a concentration camp prisoner who was given privileges in return for supervising prisoner work gangs, and was often a common criminal and frequently brutal to fellow inmates.

As with the kapo, who identified with their captors, the kapo-rona derive their identity from their masters, the Fascists. Like the Borg in “Star Trek,” they have assimilated into the collective. Resistance is futile, but that thought never crosses the minds of the kapo-rona.

The kapo-rona think and talk like the recorded announcements on the bus: “Wear your face masks” or “Maintain social distancing,” they tell people with self-assumed authority. They are currently limited to informing violators of their infractions, but they will soon be actively reporting violations to the police state hotline.

The kapo-rona are good citizens as far as the Fascists are concerned. They listen and absorb the propaganda. They are operantly conditioned to fear death intensely, and then project that fear onto others. They will eventually develop a propensity toward aggression and violence against perpetrators who flout the “supercorona” mandates, thereby mirroring their masters. In effect, their thinking has evolved from “I am afraid of dying” to “I am afraid of dying because of YOU.”

The kapo-rona will become more dangerous as the “supercorona” hoax drags on. The Fascist will keep them and everyone else in check by introducing “super-duper corona” once the novelty of “supercorona” wears off. “Super-super corona” will be far more pervasive and much deadlier. A thinking person might actually see the ruse, but not the kapo-rona. The fear of death blinds them.

For the kapo-rona, the “supercorona” pandemic (sic) has given new meaning to a life that was reduced to cardboard cutouts in the peonage. It is their interim “immortality project” (as defined by the Great Prophet, Ernest Becker). When the “supercorona” fraud is universally exposed, the kapo-rona will slink back into their hovels to wait for another opportunity for faux redemption.