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?