This is with the current Coronavirus might seem an academic question.
However we the world have ignored for the greater part all previous pandemics.
For example, the Spanish Flu killed more people than World War I.
World War One and its consequences are etched in our historical memories but the Spanish flu is hardly remembered.
Ebola was on our TV and Aids down to sexual ordination.
Over 70 million are now infected with Aids. All connected to each other.
(Aids can take up to ten years after transmission to show its self.)
Thanks to a massive effort with the drugs to manage it are now affordable Aids is now no longer a killer.
So over the years since then, we have come to believe that Aids is cured. This is not so there are over 2 million new cases yearly in the world.
That gives you an impression of what is going on in the world.
This is why we need to take global health to the top of our priorities.
What do they all these viruses have in common?
They all come from animals.
However, this is not the problem its now a combination of infections spreading in urban high density, the enormity of mobility, climate change, conflict, deforestation, food demand, population growth, which means that we are and will be more and more exposed to what see today. With the results that the overuse of antibiotics and vaccines the risks are getting bigger and bigger to antimicrobial resistance.
So what should we be doing?
It’s not the global response that is important.
We need to train rapid support teams that can be deployed to help any country with a network of back up volunteers.
We need obviously, to strengthen public health systems in the world.
We need more effective engagement with communities
WE need to share Data and samples of viruses worldwide.
WE need Research &Development systems with no market incentives.
We need to suppress fake news.
WE need a universal flu vaccine.
WE need to understand that the risk of this Pandemic is enormous, and that is is not the last.
The key is to invest in getting rid of Inequality world wide.
Promises are not worth the paper they are written on. Once they are broken sorry mean nothing.
We need International solidarity with individual responsibility. Actions speak louder.
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This is not the subject of science fiction it is closer to fact than fiction with good new reasons to pay attention.
Epidemics are certainly not new or unpredictable. A new strain of the influenza virus occurs every 1-2 years. We know a pandemic has occurred every 10-50 years for the past few centuries, and the last one was in 1968, so we’re overdue one.
Epidemiologists have some time not being talking of whether there will be a new pandemic, but of when it will occur.
While we sit at home social media is now brings us dier warnings with alternative fact from all quarters of the world that are moving so fast it is hard to keep up or give a damn.
Restaurants have tons of unsold food while supermarkets struggle to stock their shelves. Brexit will have no bearing, the EU Stability pack is a joke.
Predictions are everywhere, but the coronavirus is going to teach us all that we need to look after the planet that we all live on.
Over the past century, humans have been transforming the planet so profoundly that we are pushing it into a new geological era.
Previous pandemics had an environmental impact – loss of agricultural activity allowed forests to regrow, and their photosynthetic activity sucked so much carbon from the air it contributed to the regional cooling. Although greenhouse gas emissions may drop suddenly, the effect on temperature would take centuries to perceive because of how long carbon dioxide persists in the air.
Perhaps we are coming to the realisation that globalization allows us to share goods and diseases, however, it seems we are more worried about being wifi bored.
If there is going to be one lesson to be learned from all of this it is that inequality the virus that causes much more than the source of virus-like Cov -19 – Wars, Slums, Mass immigration, indeed you would not be wrong to blame it for most of the woes we all witness on a daily bases must be eradicated.
As a result here we are with countries with no water to wash their hands. (With trillions poured into reducing Co2 projects involving water made up less than 1%.)
Coronavirus is exposing the fragility of social life and that fragility is not because of the pandemic but rather the inequalities built into living.
The unfolding economic catastrophe will historically mark this different than any natural disaster or financial crash as it is falling on the poorest.
Up to now, we have all be concerned at technologies or events that have the potential to radically alter our planet, no one was talking about a global pandemic?
The blame game will come later.
If we continue on a path of global climate change, land-use change, resource depletion, biodiversity loss and population expansion?
There will be no blame game.
The world’s population in the Middle Ages was just a few hundred million; in 1918, it was 1.8 billion – now it is more than 7 billion. The numbers of people infected and killed could run into hundreds of millions. Industry, food production, and the trappings of our modern world economy would all suffer, but this could be to the benefit of the environment.
It used to take days, weeks, months to circumnavigate the globe. Now it takes about a day. Very few diseases show symptoms in that short period of time, so someone could be infected with a virus or bacteria, jump on a plane and infect someone else halfway across the world in a matter of days.
Wouldn’t it be great to achieve some of these desirable planetary outcomes without the horrific suffering of a global pandemic?
If we don’t perhaps it will be no longer a human-dominated planet.
Everyone seems to have completely ignored the potential for bio-weapons that are released simultaneously in multiple parts of the world, spreading a worst-case virus quickly everywhere.
Is this possible? Of course, it is, and probably become more possible every day.
The danger of either a naturally occurring pandemic of this sort, or a human-engineered catastrophe, is not a wild scenario at all.
One way or the other it is going to take years (or months, if we’re really, really lucky) to develop, test and approve a new vaccine or treatment.
We have Binary ionization technology in Hospitals.
Why not weaponize on a personal footing?
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AS IF WE DID NOT KNOW it is posing that fundamental profound question once more.
Are we going to care of the Earth so it can care for us?
It is impossible to say which way the disease will go however there is no doubt that it is creating the biggest restriction of civil liberties “in peacetime”.
We know that we all tracked by Google. Behind all the restrictions governments will adopt powers that they will loath to relinquish when the crises are over.
There is every like hood that the pandemic will strengthen the state and reinforce nationalism. What won’t change is the inequality and greed, rather it will create a less open, less prosperous and less free world.
Of course, it did not have to be like this but it will be the straw that brakes the camel’s back of globalization and it will probably result in uncontrolled Co2 emissions.
In the short term, with decoupling and rivalry coming to the forefront driven by a cascading sense of vulnerability there will be a race to return to full production.
However the Pandemic is proof of our interdependence but we are not or are we heading for a poorer, meaner, and smaller world.
If the Pandemic shocks us into recognizing our real interests in cooperating multilaterally on the big global issues facing us all it will have served a useful purpose.
We all know that it is not enough to think of one nation’s power over another when it comes to climate change. The key is learning the importance that we have all to act together and Covid -19 is going to show that we are failing to adjust our strategy on many fronts to this new world.
Either way, this crisis will reshuffle the international power structure in the way we can only begin to imagine.
If we don’t support each other the result will be instability and widespread conflict within and across nations.
We know that there is a dramatic new stage in global capitalism on the horizon with supply chains be brought closer to home. We are going to see failed states with billions of economic refugees on the move.
We are going to see the USA no longer as an international leader.
To date, international collaboration has been woefully insufficient.
What is needed it targeted assistance that provides hope that men and woman can prevail in response to this extraordinary challenge.
If it gets Airborne the white full personal-protection suits that presently strike fear into the hearts of us all will be worthless.
AS IF EARTH DOES NOT HAVE ENOUGH PROBLEMS THE NEXT NASA PROJECT TO MARS IS SCHEDULED TO LAUNCH IN JULY.
NASA’s 2020 Mars rover.
The rover will collect and cache promising samples for eventual return to Earth.
The first pristine pieces of Mars won’t be coming down to Earth for at least another decade, but the time to start preparing society for the epic arrival is now.
This is an extremely grave point.
On the one hand, we can argue that Martian organisms cannot cause any serious problems to terrestrial organisms, because there has been no biological contact for 4.5 billion years between Martian and terrestrial organisms. On the other hand, we can argue equally well that terrestrial organisms have evolved no defences against potential Martian pathogens, precisely because there has been no such contact for 4.5 billion years. The chance of such an infection may be very small, but the hazards, if it occurs, are certainly very high.
Martian rock that has already arrived on earth contained structures resembled the fossilized remains of bacteria-like lifeforms.
What if such samples turned out to be dangerous, and contagiously so?
Are there some Mars-oriented lessons to be learned from COVID-19.
Here on earth, it is gruelling and potentially lethal work to identify a virus never mind virus from other planets.
It is estimated that there are 1.6 million unknown viruses in birds and mammals. Of these, it is thought between 600,000 and 800,000 are zoonotic, meaning they have the potential to jump from animals to people.
Virulence, contacts and the length of time for which people are infectious are the three factors that determine what is called ‘the basic reproductive rate’ – how far and fast the epidemic will spread.
There may be a staggering 3,200 different types of coronavirus harboured in bats alone.
As with historical infectious disease epidemics, the coronavirus that’s spreading currently is another example of why it’s so important to understand the consequences of interacting with environments humans rarely contact and then distributing widely whatever [they] picked up.
If one looks at the outbreak in Africa, of Ebola and the HIV/Aids pandemic – which to date has killed 35 million and infected 70 million – started about a century ago in Cameroon when a chimpanzee virus was transmitted to a human who almost certainly killed, butchered or consumed it.
Markets were closed during both outbreak, but they are now once more doing a roaring trade selling tropical game including monkeys, chimpanzees, cane rats, bats and snakes. Bushmeat is entrenched in local culture and is often a vital form of subsistence, hence why the authorities are unwilling or unable to announce an outright ban.
Last, with or without artificial intelligence we continue at our collective peril to make imbalance’s in the ecosystem.
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The name coronavirus is derived from the Latin corona, meaning “crown” or “halo”, or “wreath”.
The name refers to the characteristic appearance of the infective form of the virus. Human coronaviruses were first discovered in the late 1960s they including SARS-CoV in 2003, HCoV NL63 in 2004, HKU1 in 2005, MERS-CoV in 2012, and SARS-CoV-2 (formerly known as 2019-nCoV) in 2019.
Human to human transmission of coronaviruses is primarily thought to occur among close contacts.
Viruses can infect all types of life forms, from animals and plants to microorganisms, including bacteria and archaea.
The most recent common ancestor of all coronaviruses has been placed at around 8000 BCE.
Since then there is quite a selection of our friend Corona with four or five that continually circulate in the human population with more regularity 2003, 12, 15, 18, 19,20,
Bovine coronavirus and human coronavirus OC43 diverged around the 1890s.
Some can kill more than 30% of those infected (such as MERS-Cov), and some are relatively harmless, such as the common cold.
Coronaviruses have the largest genomes of all RNA viruses. The host cell components to allow RNA synthesis is not well understood. Virus any member of a unique class of infectious agents, which were originally distinguished by their smallness (hence, they were described as “filtrable” Because of their ability to pass through fine ceramic filters that blocked all cells, including bacteria) and their inability to replicate outside of and without the assistance of a living host cell.
Because these properties are shared by certain bacteria viruses are now characterized by their simple organization and their unique mode of replication. A virus consists of genetic material, which may be either DNA or RNA, and is surrounded by a protein coat and, in some viruses, by a membranous envelope.
This strain that is currently going around is remarkably stable giving how much transmission which could be put down to that it does not need to change as it is doing a great job spreading around the world.
It is not affected by seasonal variations, as it has already sucessfuly handled all-weather cold or warm.
There are no surveillance world networks for the flu that tells us where it disappears to.
If we don’t learn from this pandemic that we need to understand these Viruses we will bring them to outer space if we ever get there.
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I know that humans are the only type of species that are suitable to manage the earth but it does not make them the right species!
Apparently not.
Did we ever think that we would be living in a world where it is life-threatening to go our side and I am not talking about terrorists or any other Hollywood science fiction movie scenario?
There’s a lot of bad news out there but this is not a death sentence.
It’s time to save the world. ” We can use it as we wish”
No one owns the earth. No one has the right to do whatever they want.
We’re not the only thing that lives here, nor are we more important in any way.
We cannot use the world as we please as our actions are endangering not just us but other species.
Our Earth was meant to be lived on in union with its Ecosystems and we cannot allow that to be broken.
The Coronavirus ( Covid 19 ) is illuminating what is wrong with our world.
So our most crucial life questions are:
What Kind of World Do We Want to Leave to Our Children?
Whatever your interest — whether it’s the environment, health care, poverty, or education — there are simple steps each of us can take to make life better not just for someone in our own community.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, that “all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.” now needs an Earth Declaration.
Here are the top six of my non-legal binding the goals.
Use Global Warming to Solve Global Warming.
Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts to protect, restore, and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation, and halt biodiversity loss.
Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas, and marine resources for sustainable development.
Sustainable Development Goals which will take years for a critical mass of governments to actually rally behind.
The allocation of resources to fight climate change and other environmental issues over the next decade can be achieved by making a profit for profit sake pay. ( See the previous post on a 0.05% World Aid Commission. How it could be implemented so the costs are spread fairly)
End poverty in all its forms everywhere.
Global poverty. Reduce inequality within and among countries. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.
Expand access to clean drinking water, green energy.
Artificial Intelligence and Automation.
The 2020s sounds like such a radical futuristic decade however to strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development requires a coherent and plausible conception of social justice. Abasic income, a periodic cash payment unconditionally delivered to all on an individual basis, without means-test or work requirement.
Stop the sale of arms.
The estimate of the total value of the global arms trade in 2017 was at least $95 billion.* However, the true figure is likely to be higher. On any given day at any given moment in your life, there are at least 15 wars and armed conflicts actively going on all around the world — even if you’re only hearing about a few of them on the news.
There are an estimated 11-12 million refugees in the world today with between 12-24 million Internally Displaced Persons.
Electoral Reform with Citizens’ Assemblies.
These aren’t just focus groups or consultations though but for the members to engage in serious, informed reflection on important policy matters with people they may never normally meet.
As Hubert Reeves ( Canadian-French Astrophysicist) say’s, ” Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and Destroys a Visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he’s destroying is this God he’s worshipping “
Feel free to have idea sex between your ideas and mine so we can come up with even better ideas. It’s a way of saying: “We agree that these are the world’s top priorities right now.”
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NO MATTER HOW MUCH THE TRUTH IS HIDDEN BEHIND LIES IT EVENTUALLY BURST THROUGH AND THE IMPLICATIONS OF THAT TRUTH WILL REVILE THE FELICE OF CAPITALISM SYSTEMS WHICH ARE THE CURRENT MARAIDIME OF OUR TIMES.…
The eco of our origins is being heard in as much that we can’t continue living in abstract economic systems with limitless consumerism. Where everything that we consume is filmed while everything we rely on life is not.
When now the unconscious world is surging up the powerlessness of the market is evident to all: The global financial system is already insolvent.
Where is the bottom? There is no bottom.
Everyone expecting the economics and financial markets to magically return to January 2020 levels once the pandemic dies down is delusional.
We are all connected to one another whether its an Airline or an Individual. The rules of capitalism have to be suspended and help given to all.
There is no place for Governments loans to get through this.
Loans must still be serviced or paid off, and if the borrowers default, then the losses must be absorbed by the lenders or taxpayers.
This is the time to introduce a National basic income to one and all. ( We don’t need the virus to tell or see this – Stay at home – AI Automation – Wifi you name it)
Up to now, one could argue that everything we do is to secure our future as a species, but for the last thousand year, we have become more and more out of touch with NATURE AND OUR OWN NATURE.
So what does the future hold in terms of how humans will evolve?
During our first four billion years we made very little progress in terms of social or technological advancements. It took over a billion years to transfer from one basic stone tool to the next. Today our brains still cannot visualize dark matter or dark energy that makes up over 90% of our universe.
And that is with brains about the same size as those that used stone tools.
However, as we PAVE THE WAY TO OUR SELF DESTRUCTION IN A WORLD OF MATERIALISTIC PARADIGM our behaviour is now unrecognisable.
One of the possibilities of human evolution is that we are done evolving.
Another possibility is the exact opposite: we are still changing.
Survival of the fittest can’t operate if the “less fit” are helped to survive. So it’s no surprise that much technological advancement is currently aimed at the human body.
For those of us that survive this current threating world Pandemic, we are going to see a fundamental change to society – SELF ACTUALIZATION.
We have invested so much in self-destruction our perception of reality relies on the filter of our minds that have been educated not to value the planet we all live on but to use in for Profit.
When those filters are dulled by psychedelics we see the true nature of reality.
God forbid we don’t learn the lessons of values.
Biological evolution relies on mutations as a source of new characteristics and involves much longer time periods of a Pandemic.
WHAT IS THE VALUE OF A NATION IF WHEN NATURE SURGES BACK IT FALLS APART?
Where the panic lands will determine our future – Toilet Paper or the Gun.
The quest for the single explanation that could unite all the observed forces at play in our universe must leave the arena of religion and spirituality and become the search for the Unified Field Theory.
Perhaps we need a Shaman. One who mediates between the visible world of form and matter, and the invisible world of energy and spirits. For the shaman, there is no supernatural world. Only the natural world exists, with its visible and invisible dimensions.
The shaman is dedicated to service to her community, whereas the mystic is dedicated to dwelling on her own experience of the divine, and lets the world unfold as it may.
When a person regains health after being near death, it is believed by some that they have a special ability to overcome hardships and they can help others do so as well, and so are looked at as a shaman.
It is better to classify shamanism among the mysticisms than among the religions of the world.
Today many of us feel compelled to describe our art and practice using the language of quantum physics, I believe that doing so actually devalues the 50,000-plus year tradition of shamanism.
Therianthropes are found among all religious theology with their visions based in shamanism.
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