The coronavirus crisis that the world is going through has just invented a new concept that sends shivers down your spine just by its wording: the “corona camp”. We owe it to a famous brand which offers an energy drink that would give you wings. But in the face of the pandemic, there is no more potion than magic recipe. Fortunately, reason eventually put an end to this project worthy of a sorcerer's apprentice. Explanation…
To fight against a coronavirus lethal and elevated to the highest level of pandemic, you have different possibilities. If you have the means, you systematically screen your population to separate the wheat from the chaff. Otherwise, you confine your fellow citizens to slow the spread until you eradicate it. Or you do nothing and hope that herd immunity solves the problem naturally, the survivors having thus developed the antibodies strengthening the body sufficiently to resist the scourge. It is this philosophy that a senior executive of a drink that gives wings has chosen. But his method was particular: he wanted to lock his pilots in a camp so that they would catch the coronavirus. Welcome to the “Corona camp” where work was supposed to set you free…
This crisis of coronavirus definitely reveals a lot. And we are undoubtedly not at the end of our surprises. Good or bad. A dramatic global soap opera whose brand Red Bull will have been an episode. It must be said that the brand believes so much in the virtues of energizing expedients that faced with the dreaded Covid-19, it wanted to play sorcerer's apprentice.
More precisely, it is the influential Helmut Marko, Red Bull's motorsport advisor, who made this incredible proposal: organize a “Corona camp” for his team's drivers so that they are deliberately infected with the coronavirus. Young and healthy, the athletes would have emerged from the event strengthened and immunized... Or not?
It is precisely this possibility of a dramatic failure in view of the virulence of Covid-19 which lit a light in the heads of other Red Bull executives who calmed the ardor of mad scientist Marko. As for the pilots, they were reassured with a classic training program to follow during this period of confinement.
We will recall that Marc Marquez, Jack Miller, Andrea Dovizioso, Johann zarco, Nakagami, Alex Marquez, and, of course, all the troops KTM, official and satellite, display the colors of Red Bull.
