Love During the Time of COVID 19

Anybody reading familiar with the "Dance of Death" or "Danse Macabre"? It was a theme during and after the "Black Plague" also known as the "Black Death".  The Great Mortality (or Black Death as it is now known) was a watershed event in the history of Europe and the world. Between 1347 and 1351, the plague killed about 75 million people and up to 50 percent of the population.   One could argue the epigenetics of those times of plague are still in our ancestral and genetic memories. 

Those who seek to profit from other's suffering in any type of war or disaster will use the weapon of "fear" and/or "panic" to manipulate a population, their "ancestral memories" and their minds filled with sci-fi films of pandemics, horror (zombies such as in World War Z) and the 'ordinary' citizen's lack of actual knowledge of biology, physiology, medicine and epidemiology. 

An ignorant population is a potentially pliable population.   Feed them a narrative of fear, blame and misinformation, and you can cause revolts, hoarding, "social distancing", marginalizing certain races, ages and categories of people as well as use the "threat" of illness and/or death as a reason to strip a community or nation of their individual rights all under the guise of "for your own good or the greater good of the nation."   
Case in point, the United Kingdom just announced a plan to quarantine all citizens over the age of 69 for at least four months.  They are required to self-impose a quarantine for at least four months even if they are healthy and still working.  "Ministers are planning to give police the power to arrest people with coronavirus who are not self-isolating, the Health Secretary has confirmed." https://metro.co.uk/2020/03/15/police-arrest-coronavirus-patients-ignoring-quarantine-12400302/?ito=cbshare   
 
​Dividing the population even further, there is a new "fear" spreading about contact with "the elderly", and vice versa-elder citizens concerned about contact with those who are out and about, including their grandchildren.   People are encouraged to buy "protective clothing" including goggles, face, hair and head masks, latex gloves and shoe coverings.  Very few people have actual practice in putting on hazardous materials (haz/mat) suits correctly so they are sealed, or of  taking them off properly as well.   

Social distancing and keeping boundaries on "personal space" has taken on a whole new meaning.  Within one week I have witnessed a change in behavior on public transportation on the Washington, DC metro.   People deliberately avoid standing or sitting near other people.   The new greeting is more from the "East".   A quick bow, hand over heart or even elbow bump is used instead of handshakes and hugs.    How quickly people adapt and 'follow along'.

You can see a few children with masks on, or trying to pry them off-they are not comfortable after a few minutes, you have to "get used to" the feeling of a type of bandage/restraint on your face and over your ears.   There are new designs on face masks and the price escalates as the supplies diminish.   Soon, wearing face masks, gloves and goggles with be socially engineered to be the "new normal".

Regardless, children and animals are not shy about still wanting physical contact and affection.   Most adults crave this, too.   Cyber icons and memes will never be a substitute for human to human and human to animal...touch.

Sadly, expressions of purely human rituals such as baptisms, weddings, graduations and funerals have had to be "postponed"...although you cannot postpone a funeral for long due to the body decaying over a period of days.  Expressions of "love" and "grief" and even "death" have had to be truncated in many parts of our world for now.   Because of the threat and fear of exposure, many families cannot be present at the cremation or burial of their family members and loved ones.   While the average age of death in Italy is over 80 years old, currently the epicenter of the COVID 19 virus in Europe, the "sudden death" of so many elders in numerous communities all at once has left the country...and the world...in shock.  
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"The data on mortality are deepening with the medical records of the deceased," said president of Italy's Higher Health Institute (Istituto Superiore di Sanità, or ISS), Silvio Brusaferro, as he presented the new data. The picture is very similar to that given by the previous set of statistics released on March 5: "The median age of the deceased is 80, the majority of victims are male, and they had an average of 2.7 pre-existing health conditions."  www.thelocal.it/20200311/coronavirus-what-do-we-know-about-the-victims-in-italy 
Those with wealth and those living in poverty are susceptible to the corona viruses.  This bioweapon seems engineered to cull the elderly and those with pre-existing health conditions but not, fortunately, those usually most vulnerable...newborns, infants and children with pre-existing respiratory and other health conditions.  It does not discriminate by economic status either.    Strange and somehow...merciful.

There have been cycles throughout human history of plagues, pestilence, wars, natural disasters and weather which have weakened and thinned the population of humans and animals of our planet over thousands of years.   However, for most denizens of Planet Earth, it has been since World War II,  over 75 years since  sacrifice, hardships, scarcity and uncertainty have been experienced by the more "developed nations" and by so many people concurrently.   Those who grew up with advanced technologies, medicine, almost instant gratification and limitless supplies are about to learn some of the lessons those who came before us had to learn...the hard way. 

It just may be a time to "re-direct" and employ an arsenal of "love" which can conquer "fear" and panic.   Often the simplest solution and prevention of a health crisis is easily actualized.  In this case it is washing hands frequently with soap and clean water, as well as covering one's orifices (mouth, nose and eyes) if someone else is coughing or sneezing near you and refraining from touching your face as well as washing objects in contact with your face...such as your phone.

Love is the overall antidote in a time of division and can re-connect those in families, communities and nations.  The love of humanity can spur discovery in medicine, in communications and in cooperation at a level never experienced before.   It is possible that sharing information, data, and strategies, may now occur at an unprecedented  rate.   In fact, it is also possible that more of the world will recognize the urgent need to deter, cease and halt the growth of "death sciences" and condemn in the strongest terms those who pursue research and development of bio-weapons, genetic engineering, genocidal science and policies as was attempted after World War I with the agreement to ban all "chemical weapons".

One of the most "famous" proponents and supporters of genetic manipulation, new vaccines and population "culling"-eugenics-is Bill Gates.   Bill Gates just "stepped down" from his position as the CEO of Microsoft to devote "more time to his charitable foundation work."    This is very convenient timing given the rapid spread of COVID 19 and the new "vaccine research" and potential profits to be made by mandating vaccines once one is "developed".  The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation funds vaccines and vaccine research with billions of dollars...but ultimately to what end?!
​"Gates is an avowed eugenicist who is committed to drastically reducing the world’s population in the name of combating global warming. This is alarming given the fact that the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation funds the production and distribution of vaccines to the third world.
During a February 2010 TED conference, Gates openly stated that vaccines would be used to reduce global population and lower CO2 emissions. Stating that the global population was heading towards 9 billion, Gates said, “If we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services (abortion), we could lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 per cent.” Did you know Bill Gates father was once the Director of Planned Parenthood?   www.lookintoit.org/Eugenicist-Bill-Gates.html

My considered advice would be to steer clear of Bill and Melinda Gates ideas and funding for a 'controlled population-smaller world'.   Read this excerpt from a more in depth article linked here-for a closer look at Bill Gates, his activities and his foundation:  www.nowtheendbegins.com/johns-hopkins-bill-gates-foundation-event-201-launched-covid-19-coronavirus/
​"For years we’ve been watching as Microsoft founder Bill Gates, now retired from the company he founded, use his billions to give ‘free vaccinations‘ to people in third world countries. Now Bill has become a founding partner in another company, this one is called the ID2020 Alliance, and its goal is to give every human being on Earth a digital id.

How do they plan on accomplishing this feat? By combining mandatory vaccinations with implantable microchips. Genius, isn’t it? And coming soon to a theater near you, as the saying goes.
The participants of Event 201, invited there by the rich and powerful elites that rule the world, sat and war-gamed how an outbreak of COVID-19 coronavirus might go. Looks like the meeting was a success because just one month to the day later, the first case of COVID-19 was reported in China, and well, you know the rest."


Closing this evening on the eve of St. Patrick's Day which this year will not be celebrated with the usual festive parades and pub gatherings, music and dancing into the wee hours....unfortunately.   All this due to the fear of contagion of the COVID 19 aka the "Corona virus" or the "Wuhan virus".   

Meantime, here is a cheerful and sweet, apt melancholic tune called:
"Here's A Health To the Company" from the Irish singers  
Kevin Conneff & Moya Brennan.
Well worth the time to watch/listen      www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdIJP3-pzy0

Here are the lyrics to the refrain:  
So here's a health to the company and one to my lass
Let's drink and be merry all out of one glass
Let's drink and be merry, all grief to refrain
For we may or might never all meet here again

Happy St. Patrick's Day!    May the "Luck of the Irish" grace your path wherever you may be...

Till next week,

​Jo

*A postscript chart to put CV 19's fatality rate into perspective-see belowlthservices, w lower that by perhaps 10 to 15 percent”