When Will Life Be Normal Again?
The short answer: NEVER.
The short answer: NEVER.
Larry Brilliant, the epidemiologist who warned of pandemic in 2006, and who beat small pox, gave this response:
“The world is not going to begin to look normal until THREE THINGS have happened:
ONE, we figure out whether the distribution of this virus looks like an ICEBERG, which is one-seventh above the water, or a PYRAMID, where we see everything. If we’re only seeing right now one-seventh of the actual disease BECAUSE WE’RE NOT TESTING enough, and we’re just blind to it, then we’re in a world of hurt.
TWO, we have a treatment that works, a vaccine or antiviral.
And THREE, maybe MOST IMPORTANT, we begin to see LARGE NUMBERS of people — in particular nurses, home health care providers, doctors, policemen, firemen, and teachers who have had the disease — are IMMUNE, and we have TESTED THEM to know that they are not infectious any longer.
And we have a SYSTEM THAT IDENTIFIES them, either a concert WRISTBAND or a CARD with their PHOTOGRAPH and some kind of a STAMP on it. Then we can be comfortable SENDING OUR CHILDREN BACK TO SCHOOL, because we know the teacher is not infectious.
Instead of saying “No, you can’t visit anybody in nursing home,” we have a group of people who are CERTIFIED that they work with elderly and vulnerable people, and NURSES who can go back into the HOSPITALS and DENTISTS who can open your mouth and look in your mouth and NOT BE GIVING YOU THE VIRUS.
When those THREE THINGS happen, that’s when NORMALCY will return.”
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It’s going to take a long, long time.
How long do YOU think that will take? Chances are, a lot longer than you think.
How are our WORLD governments handling these issues?
How long will the world take to:
1) Test EVERYONE?
2) Find a vaccine or blocker for the virus and ADMINISTER it to EVERYONE?
3) Issue cards and certification to EVERYONE WHO HAS HAD THE VIRUS, is NOW IMMUNE and can resume the work of health care and education and elder care and duties that brings them into transmissible contact?
Given where we are today and where we need to go, we must face the reality that this is a different world than that of three weeks ago.
The truth is, THE WORLD WILL NEVER BE THE SAME.
And that’s a blessing. The world wasn’t working. Except for a select few. A tiny portion of the top 1%. And there are 7.7 BILLION human beings.
What’s Broken is Now Evident
This virus has exposed all the systems that were irretrievably broken and calcified and out of balance with nature, humankind and with our Earth.
If these systems — government, medical care, environment, education, insurance, personal health, public safety, emergency response, news, media, government cooperation globally, transportation — were working, were robust and actually served humanity and nature, we would handle this virus without GLOBAL DISRUPTION.
Instead everything that has broken down or ground to a halt was ALREADY BROKEN. The virus has shone a light on it all. Now we’re able to see the dysfunction for what it is.
Mourning
So take some time to mourn the old if you need to. Allow your mourning to run its course and invite the transformation of grief and loss to become the anticipation and celebration of the new. Of what is to come. Of what can be.
Ask yourself:
How will I transform MYSELF to meet uncertainty?
How will I bolster and maintain my long-term immunity and wellness with self-care practices, healing modalities, diet and mental and spiritual vitality?
How will I rise up to care for my neighbor, my community, my planet and my human family?
How will I participate and take a place in a world reborn?
How will I co-create the world in which I DESIRE to live, to work, and to thrive?
Waiting room?
If you’re waiting to go back to the way things were, you’re Waiting for Godot.
So don’t hesitate. Activate. Designate your love as fate.
Don’t suffocate on your own hate. Love your mate. A gentle trait.
Recreate or detonate? Annihilate? A heavy weight.
Now radiate. A ONE WORLD STATE.
Or is it JUST TOO LATE?*
*some lyrics from “Mediate” by INXS