When some Trumpists-turned-QAnonists still stranded on the volcanic island of Mauritius—who needed to concoct a half-believe story to gain public attention so that they could
fly back home—told the locals that they spotted a
big bird that resembled the flightless dodo in the middle of the night, when the country was still on lockdown, thus raising the infinitesimal
hope that the Mauritian bird, thought extinct, is far from dead.
That “the dodo is alive!” sounds
like a modern version of the biblical story of
Jesus’ raising Lazarus, who had already been in the tomb for four days, from the dead—even if the
big bird is long dead, who says that it can’t miraculously be resurrected?