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?