184. The art of Weiqi (Go/Baduk) War (碁#21) - Coronavirus COVID-19 (2/2)

Recently while playing a bit of Weiqi (Go/Baduk), I had for the fourth time come across a dilemma that only reveals itself when a player repeatedly plays a certain game. This dilemma is the inexplicable sensation one gets that while the end result remains always the same, just like the starting plays, there is a sense that during the game the sequential order of play keeps rearranging itself. I know this sounds crazy and in the tangible, if you are hearing this, nothing physical actually changes. It is the perception of what is happening that keeps changing. And that constantly changing perception is what is confusing the brain and leading to the alternate reality of things floating about in water. I bring this up because the wars fought on the Weiqi (Go/Baduk) board are very much about the two strongest realities: Yin and Yang deciding which will be the dominate reality to come. For most of human experience, Yin and Yang are best viewed as influences. Unseen hands that move in mysterious ways. Taking turns to hold sway over each other that for the most part have no direct bearing on our lives. The seasons come and go like night and day. But then a stone gets played on the Weiqi (Go/Baduk) board with such impact that it's repercussions are eventually felt by all the other stones on the board. Eventually. The stone that got cast over Wuhan, China, was such a stone. And while we are still self-isolation and doing what the powers-that-be want us to do, it may be too little too late. I say this because all the hardest hit countries lie between latitudes 30° north and 45° north of the equator in a nice straight line. What this could possibly mean is that the virus is floating along a jet stream air current in a band around the earth and drifting down. So right now, the United States is being hit hardest. And as this invisible cloud drifts westward along the North Pacific, it will eventually reach Japan and re-infect China all over again. And yet none of what I'm saying makes much sense unless it is understood that in an alternative reality Wuhan is a volcano and the virus is an ash-cloud encircling the earth. Something of which I will leave for sci-fi freaks to enjoy. But in this reality of which we exist in, I am just playing a Weiqi (Go/Baduk) game in which the bottom half of the board has shapes that remind me of North America, Europe and Asia. While the upper half of the board has this massive landmass that I just can't make heads or tails of. What to do? What to do? ⚔️圍棋戰聖