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Science and Warnings

Warnings from scientists are nothing new.  They are ignored all the time though. They should not be confused with REPENT–The World Is Coming To An End statements made by non-scientists.  Covid 19 warnings were initially ignored and we saw the results.

Are we more ready to heed warnings from scientists?  We will know soon by what the world does with the root cause of many of the viruses that spread everywhere and the root cause of global warming.

According to the YouTube video below, China is the main source of exotic animals and bats that end up in wet markets that are the root source of the viruses that are killing us.  It is clear that Covid 19 and its handling will be at the heart of the elections in November and Republicans want to get voters mad at China instead of mad at the handling of the pandemic.  That said, we should be able to do both.  It is not so much that we should blame China for the pandemic as much as it is to encourage them to eliminate the wet markets.

A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

JOHN BURROUGHS

Bill Maher in his unique and colorful style nails the need for China to eliminate the wet markets extremely well here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEfDwc2G2_8&feature=youtu.be

Bill Maher follows up on China’s wet markets with this about America’s industrial farming:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OoT2OZWCOI

Hopefully there are many more people in this world and who will allow Covid 19 make them more adamant about listening and heeding to warnings from scientists and take action.  Maybe global warning concerns will gain traction.  Both are invisible threats.

Outer space is cold because it lacks air and the particulates that would be suspended in it if air existed there.  The more particulates that are suspended in air the warmer the air. Doesn’t it make sense that as populations rise that particultates would also rise?  Is it hard to believe that there is all of a sudden a problem when one didn’t exist before?

Well, at the dawn of agriculture, about 8000 B.C., the population of the world was approximately 5 million. Over the 8,000-year period up to 1 A.D. it grew to 200 million to 300 million.  It’s not like we have precise numbers for that period of time. 

A tremendous change occurred with the industrial revolution: whereas it had taken all of human history until around 1800 for world population to reach one billion, the second billion was achieved in only 130 years (1930), the third billion in 30 years (1960), the fourth billion in 15 years (1974), and the fifth billion in only 13 years (1987).

During the 20th century alone, the population in the world has grown from 1.65 billion to 6 billion.  In 1970, there were roughly half as many people in the world as there are now.

A group of people in blue scrubs

Leadership | Covid 19

We all are better prepared to sacrifice when we are confident that our leaders are focused on the one issue that will get us closer to normal as fast as possible.

We are close to another election.  The incumbent had anticipated that the economy would be the wave that carried him into a second term. 

  • It would take guts for anybody to order stay at home orders, spend billions on ventilators and masks before we believed it was in our best interests.
  • It would take guts to tell America there was an invisible force coming.   
  • What would not have taken guts was testing.
    • The failure to immediately go all in on testing is unforgivable. 
    • Testing would have primed the nation to accept the next measures.

But that is leadership. It’s the Who, What, When, and How of success.

Great leaders know intuitively who to listen to, what to do first, when to act, and how to tell a nation we are in trouble if we don’t act now and act boldly. 

Great leaders do not try to rewrite history or call truth fake news.  Alternative history is not real.

Leadership requires trust and trust comes from being consistently honest. 

Humility and a since of spirituality helps build trust. Great leaders need to be perceived as straight shooters and not be perceived as deceitful by over half the population.

Who would have been the leader that could have acted boldly and quickly?  We don’t know.  It’s one thing to make a decision while on the hot seat and another while on the sofa. 

The problem is that much of the spread of Covid 19 stems from the 70 days that passed from the time Trump was briefed and the day when he stopped downplaying the pandemic.  He was calling it fake news instead of rallying governors, mayors, and us into taking action and investing in ventilators and masks.  Trump did not ask for the stimulus package and when the first one passed he said it was more than he wanted.

I said it would have taken guts to tell the nation we were in trouble, that there was an invisible wave of destruction coming our way.  Lack of guts means fear is present. 

David R Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D. Power versus Force, The Hidden Determinants Of Human Behavior, Hay House 2002, created a map of consciousness that placed the predominant 17 emotions a person might have ranging from shame to enlightenment. Here are those emotions from lowest to highest: 1 shame, 2 guilt, 3 apathy/hopelessness, 4 grief, 5 fear, 6 desire, 7 anger, 8 pride, 9 courage, 10 neutrality, 11 willingness, 12 acceptance, 13 reason, 14 love, 15 joy, 16 peace, 17 enlightenment.

His studies showed that at levels below courage, the primary impetus is personal survival, although at the very bottom of the scale where hopelessness and depression reside, even this motive is lacking.He says at least fear and anger contain survival instincts. At the level of pride, Hawkins states, the survival motive may expand to comprehend the survival of others as well. As we move into the level of courage, the well-being of others becomes increasingly more important.

A case can be made that the President was fearful.  Fearful that this pandemic would be the disastrous for his chances of being reelected.

Howard Stern Says Donald Trump “Despises” MAGA Voters, Thinks President Should Step Down

During a 2014 speech, then-President Barack Obama warned about the need for the US to cast aside partisan differences to prepare for an upcoming pandemic.

 

Now the question is when to open America and declare mission complete. Here are some thoughts about that.

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