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Coronavirus Corruption: The Enraging Story of Panthera Worldwide
While I much enjoyed the “Great Calm” quarantine had brought, the time to focus on my writing and ponder life while hanging in a hammock, lately the news cycle has drained me.
It’s gotten so bad that I’ve forced myself into a kind of detox; while I haven’t left social media entirely, I’ve tried to consume as little news as possible, resisting the compulsion to jump into dumpster fire comment threads.
So it brings me no pleasure to bring you this story — one that enraged me so much that I bang away at a keyboard at 4 in the morning, having just discovered it.
Enter Panthera Worldwide (not to be confused with Stepbrothers’ Prestige Worldwide, though both are about as legitimate). If you’ve never heard of the company, you’re most certainly not alone. They describe themselves on their website as “elite training and mission support”, with their parent company is based out of Virginia, kind of. I have to say kind of because the LLC is listed as inactive, having not paid their fees.
The Washington Post reported that one of its owners said he’d had no employees since May 2018. Like zero.
