CORONA VIRUS: March 1, 2020

I have been intrigued all these years about the debate on climate change. Not so much about the efficacy of it but the sheer certainty of those who don't believe in it nor have any background in any science that would support their belief. But that lack of expertise does not slow them down from their dogmatic certianty to their opinion.

We dropped out of the Paris Accord because of our lack of agreement on its mission. But were we right to drop out? How can anyone with no background be sure? They can't.

Next the world has become obsessed with nationalism as a positive and globalism as a negative.
Globalism came about because the corporate world realized their were suppliers and customers in other parts of the world that could have a measurable impact of their revenues and profits. So they bought into the concept, hook line and sinker. Find cheaper sources of supply, good for lowering manufacturing and employment expense and find a far larger source of additional revenue from new overseas customers. Both very good ideas from a corporate point of view.

But most recently we have decided as have many other advanced nations that we must think of us first and the others last. We are not our brother's keeper any longer. Why should we spend our money on the welfare of others, outside our borders. Nationalism has become the new trend. The outcome has to divide the country by ideology, by economics, by philosophy, by inequality, by religious belief, by age and demographic.  We are truly divided as a nation and there does not seem to anyone in office or on the horizon that can bring us together.

I think our basic human nature must take over. We have to devolve back to our original purpose of being alive. In a word. SURVIVE. That is the number one priority of every living organism.  We have lost all contact with the idea and replaced it with an untold number of personal interest, prejudices, opinions and priorities, none of which mean anything when compared with our own survival.

What will bring all of us together? What will make us all realize we are in this together and no one has a free pass? A major catastrophe. Well it looks like we are getting one, whether we want it or not or like it or not.

Corona virus is descending on us. Time will tell how it manifests itself but right now it is the first subject on the global news, in the entire world and it is the most significant thing anyone is thinking or talking about. We will find out if it is powerful enough to replace the preoccupation we have with our own view of the world with a more concerted, communal, worldview, should of our situation. We are in this together. We are no longer nationalists. We have to be all in on this or we will all lose.

Maybe it will influence all of us to realize the survival of our home, the planet earth, is more important to us individually and collectively and  is not defined, like a virus by arbitrary borders.