No fun in this
If I am to be honest,
I am not enjoying the sequestration, quarantine, self-isolation, or social distancing
rave of the moment as part of the scheme to limit the spread of the
Coronavirus. Much as I am a confessed hermit, I still like social interaction
with other people and more on the physical than the virtual.
This social
interaction is the equivalent of the grooming observed in a band of gorillas, we
are all social beings. At least, I have not developed the ability to commune
with inanimate objects and by that derive the benefits I would otherwise gain
from seeing fellow human beings.
Obviously, I have to
calm myself down and relax, there is another week and a half left of this
matter and it could be extended. I would hate to think of what effect it would
have on those of us who live alone at home or are used to social events that
were so suddenly snatched away.
Sacred cows of our
society
In our society, we
lose objectivity when anyone suggests a cause is for charity, we are
unquestioning and quite generous to charitable causes. You only have to watch
the money mountain grow at nightlong television events like Sport Relief in the
spring and Children in Need in the autumn, we have been had in a cult and many
exploit it.
One other cult is our
beloved and revered NHS, founded in 1948, we would not have anyone touch our
National Health Service, yet, it has been raped, pillaged, starved through the
decades, shedding many of its social underpinnings for the profit motive, but
it is being called upon to fight this Coronavirus epidemic hobbled, restrained,
underfunded, under-resourced, under-equipped and radically politicised.
A disservice to the
NHS
It is not enough to
throw money at the problem, someone should be solving the problem of throwing
the NHS personnel in the middle of a pandemic without Personal Protection
Equipment (PPE) against a virulent and highly contagious pathogen. Much as we applaud
the NHS, we cannot justify sending them on a suicide mission for that is not
what they signed up for.
They are there to
save life and it only behoves the authorities to provide tests, protection and
tools for them to perform excellently without having to be kamikaze heroes.
Medical personnel are dying, many are gravely ill, and others are in isolation
away from the battlefront where they are needed, because of failings in the
system.
Exploiting our NHS
love
To heap insult upon
injury, NHS staff are being threatened with disciplinary action if they voice
the dangers in their working environment, that is just unconscionably evil and
whoever suggested that action should be booted out of the NHS forthwith.
On the message to the
public, it was easy to attach the need for us to stay at home to the cult of
the NHS. We are to stay at home to save the NHS, yet, the NHS staff are not
given adequate protection and support to save themselves from ever-present danger
at work and being vectors that take it to their homes. The government has been
utterly derelict in their duty. Lest we forget it was used to drag us into the
madness of Brexit that has consumed this country for 4 years.
If only we could see
I remembered reading
books by Lobsang Rampa
in my late teens which covered paranormal and occultic themes. In one of his
narrations, he was in a physics class where electromagnetism was being demonstrated
with iron filings used to visually show electromagnetic waves. He told the
class he could see electromagnetic waves and he apparently went through a test of
his assertion with him being able to tell when the waves were present or not.
Won’t it be wonderful
to have that kind sight to see where the Coronavirus is, in the air and on
surfaces and by that be able to navigate the world without interacting with it
except when found in enclosed places with others or when someone expels
droplets by sneezing or coughing?
Back to my feeling at
the beginning of the blog, this self-isolation is having the effect that I want
to further isolate and extricate myself, I feel I am losing the mental capacity
to call up people and engage, I am tired.