This morning I, along with the rest of my country, was rudely awakened by an alarm-the kind of sound I expect to hear before a tsunami or something truly threatening. I am feeling pretty irate. The government has invaded my cell phone server. There is no tsunami.There is no bushfire. There is the flu and, people are getting sick, yes. Some people are dying yes. A long way from my place! This is influenza, not bubonic plague. A quite virulent form from what I can make out. There was no siren or national radio broadcast when my grandmother died of complications due to influenza. My neighbour just called by and said, "where is the alarm system saying 8,500 children* (quite alot anyway, since around 9 million die yearly globally from this 'preventable' disease) died yesterday due to malnutrituion". Last year she did not receive a violent sound of an alert on her phone telling me of spreading influenza. Or smoking. Or malnutrition. Do you know how many people died of influenza last year in NZ? Around 500. Why weren't these people highlighted in the media? You and I probably had that particular virus.
People die. Sick people and old people die more easily of illness.The media are falling down on their job and escalating fear by not providing this relevant information when reciting daily death facts.On National Radio I get daily updates by class monitor Ashley Bloomfield telling us the numbers .It is relevant and important to know that someone had cancer or diabetes. Our fears would be lessened.Unless I were old or sick. or they were my loved ones. Then I would be fearful. But we have perfectly healthy people almost paralysed by fear. I know some of them
I would really like to understand the conditions that make this global pandemic of fear possible in our communities. Why, for example, do we suspend critical questioning around our government and its lockdown practices? This baffles me. I need to understand this tendency because its potentially dangerous behaviour. You could argue that in times of political instability this same action by world governments would be called 'tyranny' or 'autocracy' or communism or something. And to question you are hassled, abused and dobbed in. Indeed you can be considered a traitor. A friend was recently writing messages in chalk on a pavement in a town near here which encouraged people to think for themselves around Covid 19. He was assaulted and verbally abused by passers by. When he told them he was simply exercising his democratic right to peacefully protest and to exercise freedom of speech, and that they didnt have to agree, they ignored this and in one case he was shoved several times by a bystander. During lockdown I did this cartoon to warn of the dangers of following without question.
My neighbour who came over this morning as I was writing this and said this pandemic behaviour is a kind of virus in itself, ie a spreadable thought pattern that we resonate with and then catch. The world is full of anxiety.I notice it in the harried faces on the street. In the interactions I observe between people and quickly run away from before they escalate. Is it around death? I wonder about our powerlessness in the face of suffering. The ultimate failure of our death defying culture is that we will die........ Are we avoiding the fact that one day we will die? How are we living in this moment? How do we connect with each other? How do we recognise others and be recognised for who we are and what we have to offer? Not by social media; reminders of our need to matter to someone, to have something to live for and by, to be able to participate. These things bring feelings of well being, ease; of peace and equilibrium and togetherness. To make it banal, but speaking in Sciencespeak, when you have these things, nice chemicals are released in your body such as oxytocin and endocannabanoids. However these are the values we have expended at the expense of the Holy Grail of Independence and, Freedom. Values which, I would argue, have brought about war, genocide and global environmental destruction. Do we fear our collective impending doom? If so, can we act with courage on those fears, instead of silo-ing them inside a virus?
Our hallowed social structures are clearly no longer serving us. They only ever served a small group of white people, but now the writing is on the proverbial wall. Covid 19 has highlighted what we do want and what we don't want. What we don't want-industrial schooling, economic tyranny (capitalism) and mechanistic medical worldview. What we do want? As Ive said I think we want connection, community and a sense of belonging, mattering to someone, participation including access to money and leisure and above all, to quote the psychologist and creator of Compassionate Communication, Marshall Rosenberg, to mutually contribute to one anothers' wellbeing.
Furthermore, mortality statistics given to us are also fueling our fears. Now, I'm no mathematician, but I can count. If you have a group of 100 people, all of whom get ill, and one of them dies of something then you have 1% mortality right? If , on the other hand, only 30 go to the doctor and the doctor says hmmm, 1 person in 30 then your mortality rate is closer to 4%. That is what we are being told right now; the rate of death against the number of people testing positive.
I do have questions on our fear. I understand anxiety and its twin brother depression very well-ive struggled with it for a good part of my life. The global pandemic is surely a pandemic of fear. Its not facts driving it but rather the well- intentioned frothing media and their bosses in government. Otherwise, as Ive said earlier, we would break out in a sweat every year in flu season or when we get in a car.
The last thing I want is for people to dismiss this essay as the work of a 'conspiracy theorist' or 'wacko' or 'hippy' or something. What can help you to at least listen for a minute? Before you put me in a box to further allay your escalating fears.And you don't have to agree. I'm just asking you to question assumptions and decisions made on your behalf.
The cabal who advised government were, I'm guessing, medical fundamentalists. Nowhere was a Zach Bush, or a Bruce Lipton or someone with a metaview or what used to be called wisdom. By the way look up these guys. They are not cranking up a conspiracy. Not that it matters to me but it may matter in terms of mainstream credibility - they both have a medical background.They use evidence-based science. Bruce Lipton is an immunologist and Zach Bush a doctor. Bruce talks about the effect of fear on immunity. It does have an effect to the extent that we may be creating the situation that we fear!
I wont go as far as saying there is an underlying sinister force at work manipulating us for its own dark ends, eg the child eating pedophile lizard race. Anyway, the only conspiracy I see is the conspiracy of control and what the cabal views as 'right action'. I'm not questioning our government's integrity, but we do need another type of voice. All we get is microbiologist Siouxsie Wiles who, despite her radical appearance is a medico with a conservative materialistic world view ie the world is made of stuff. and it just bumps around in the universe. This world view, which we take for granted, was developed in the eighteenth century and says that the world (and us) is simply matter. We are like a car. You get worn parts, you need new tyres; your battery is low etc They actually use that metaphor frequently! Its predictable and the forces that act on it are measurable. In this current paradigm Germ Theory states that there are germs out there and then they come inside you and you get sick. That doesn't explain how and why some people dont get sick, or why groups of people under duress, such as colonisation get more sick and die younger than their white counterparts in the same society. But there are other stories out there-hard as it is to wade through the sheer volume of propaganda going out as 'news', and the more extreme view that wants to link this event with every other event from Princess Diana's death to 5 G networks. You aren't going to discover them on mainstream media; they have too much invested in promoting the status quo which the government has deemed 'correct' and 'safe' and 'kind'.
Have a look at a video on Wim Hoff, the Ice Man who holds the world record for staying over 2 hours immersed in ice. He derails Germ Theory in an experiment supervised by science researchers which is recorded in the video. He and others resist the effects of bacteria directly injected into their bodies.
The virus is helping us to challenge our very world view; that is,our current disembodied compartmentalised view of the world which is present in all our institutions and the big three religions. And implicitly its accompanying value system.. For that we can choose to be grateful. Or we can see it as a threat, and using our tools of force which we use for everything we don't want, we can try to eliminate it. I say good luck there;it ain't going to work using the current medical toolbox. More about our current world view and the one that needs to replace it in the blog I've mentioned before by Charles Eisenstein:
Charles Eisenstein-author, writer social commentator, philosopher
https://charleseisenstein.org/voice-recordings/the-coronation/
Bruce Lipton- epigeneticist and immunologist
https://londonreal.tv/dr-bruce-lipton-coronavirus-epigenetics-immune-system-most-dangerous-part-of-covid-19-is-fear/
Zach Bush- MD writer and speaker
https://zachbushmd.com/video/the-highwire/
Wim Hoff-'Ice Man' and endurance athlete
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaMjhwFE1Zw
*Around 3 million children globally are estimated to die each year of hunger. Source: Unicef 2018
