The good news about Lockdown and Covid-19 is that it may point the way to decreasing Global warming as pollution levels have dropped significantly on a worldwide because motor vehicle and aircraft emissions have decreased. It is also likely to have an impact on the level of road injuries and deaths that would have resulted in hospital admissions - almost no one is driving. A further positive note is that it may enable the government to start regulating informal settlements where overcrowding results in more health threats than just SARS.
Hmmm. I'm an epidemiologist and a veterinarian who knows about Foot and Mouth Disease and what it did to the UK in 2010 when this sort of message was broadcast by politicians . Covd-19 causes SARS ( Sudden acute respiratory syndrome), which is a horrible death. It is not being confused with elderly people getting pneumonia in the last stages of their lives and passing away. Of course, people with heart conditions and pneumonia die and may be getting Corona when hospitalised. However, those who have SURVIVED are not being counted here - nor their symptoms described. They are also in hospital for days on oxygen. Mild cases are told to recover at home. BUT a high dose of virus can kill younge, healthier people and some of our athletes that have been infeceted are very unlikely to return to their previous health. The Previous SARS outbreak left a lot of people with life long debility. We need to self isolate or go into lockdown
The "darkness at the heart of all this" is the ego's clinging and its inability to accept death. In years gone by the ego was placated by a belief in a variety of fantastical afterlives where the personality/ego/soul could live on forever if it pleased a variety of gods. Now that we are discovering that the personality is a self-clinging construct, which -- like all false things -- ultimately has to fall away, those soothing old beliefs no longer work. We find ourselves terrified. For most, this terror lurks in the Unconscious.
We smother our terror with entertainment, busy-ness, power games, ritual, denial and projection. This outbreak has broken through our defenses and is exposing our collective terror. This is an opportunity to turn inward and learn who you are not. The spotlessness that remains at the core is untouchable. Once it is allowed to shine on the construct that is "you", you no longer have a need to be saved. You want to be spent. The most blissul way of spending ourselves is by pouring out compassion, kindness and understanding into this world driven by craving and ignorance.
You believe Putin/Russian statistics? Watch Russian TV. The poor f*ckers haven't overcome the fact that they lost the cold war. Their propaganda is an insult (to non-Russian's) intelligence.
Hey Chris. Born and raised at your competitive school down the road. Currently live in the states where we are around 12 days into a “lock down”. The devastation caused by the reaction is overwhelming. Your article is fact based yet will be viewed as “totally irresponsible” by the vast majority due to its lack of social conscience. Well done for taking a stand contrary to popular option. Too often fact is ignored in today’s society in favor of popular opinion.
Nearly 18 months down the road, and you have been vindicated Chris!
The good news about Lockdown and Covid-19 is that it may point the way to decreasing Global warming as pollution levels have dropped significantly on a worldwide because motor vehicle and aircraft emissions have decreased. It is also likely to have an impact on the level of road injuries and deaths that would have resulted in hospital admissions - almost no one is driving. A further positive note is that it may enable the government to start regulating informal settlements where overcrowding results in more health threats than just SARS.
Hmmm. I'm an epidemiologist and a veterinarian who knows about Foot and Mouth Disease and what it did to the UK in 2010 when this sort of message was broadcast by politicians . Covd-19 causes SARS ( Sudden acute respiratory syndrome), which is a horrible death. It is not being confused with elderly people getting pneumonia in the last stages of their lives and passing away. Of course, people with heart conditions and pneumonia die and may be getting Corona when hospitalised. However, those who have SURVIVED are not being counted here - nor their symptoms described. They are also in hospital for days on oxygen. Mild cases are told to recover at home. BUT a high dose of virus can kill younge, healthier people and some of our athletes that have been infeceted are very unlikely to return to their previous health. The Previous SARS outbreak left a lot of people with life long debility. We need to self isolate or go into lockdown
The "darkness at the heart of all this" is the ego's clinging and its inability to accept death. In years gone by the ego was placated by a belief in a variety of fantastical afterlives where the personality/ego/soul could live on forever if it pleased a variety of gods. Now that we are discovering that the personality is a self-clinging construct, which -- like all false things -- ultimately has to fall away, those soothing old beliefs no longer work. We find ourselves terrified. For most, this terror lurks in the Unconscious.
We smother our terror with entertainment, busy-ness, power games, ritual, denial and projection. This outbreak has broken through our defenses and is exposing our collective terror. This is an opportunity to turn inward and learn who you are not. The spotlessness that remains at the core is untouchable. Once it is allowed to shine on the construct that is "you", you no longer have a need to be saved. You want to be spent. The most blissul way of spending ourselves is by pouring out compassion, kindness and understanding into this world driven by craving and ignorance.
Thank you, I will share this far and wide. Scary how quickly the sheeple can have their personal liberties revoked. Fear of the inevitable!
You believe Putin/Russian statistics? Watch Russian TV. The poor f*ckers haven't overcome the fact that they lost the cold war. Their propaganda is an insult (to non-Russian's) intelligence.
Hey Chris. Born and raised at your competitive school down the road. Currently live in the states where we are around 12 days into a “lock down”. The devastation caused by the reaction is overwhelming. Your article is fact based yet will be viewed as “totally irresponsible” by the vast majority due to its lack of social conscience. Well done for taking a stand contrary to popular option. Too often fact is ignored in today’s society in favor of popular opinion.
I couldn't agree more Chris...thanks for your informative, intelligent and well-written articles