Off comes the Dust Sheet…to reveal….a piece about panic

Yes, it has been a while hasn’t it? Since I wrote anything here, I mean. And this won’t be a long piece. I had a dream years ago. An actual dream when I was asleep. I was looking out of the bedroom window in the house where my wife and I brought our kids up. I was looking out onto the street below. I could see people running up and down the street, panicking. I didn’t know what they were panicking about but what I did know was that I felt calm. Connected to their fear but separate from it. Not cold and uncaring, just dispassionate, observing, wondering what was the problem.

Currently, there appears to be a significant amount of fear in the field of health – well, ill-health actually. Corona virus to name the latest example of a drama inducing, adrenaline fueling, fear & crisis creating situation. 51 cases is the latest figure in the UK. Out of a population of over 60 million. Maths has never been a strong point of mine, but even my dopey skills suggest a negligible proportion. There’s an old story I put up on FB the other day about the effect of fear and how that is more likely to injure/damage/kill us than any virus.

As I’m sure you know, constant references to the fact it’s not a pandemic is only heard by our brains in the positive, i.e. it is a pandemic. Despite the figures that reveal otherwise. Let’s face it, it’s not the bubonic plague is it? Or Spanish Flu? Seems to have much more in common with Sars, Swine Flu, Bird Flu. Remember them? Jumping tracks from health, how about the Millennium Bug?

It does seem as if we’re encouraged to develop collective amnesia about many things. It’s eerily like Orwell’s ‘1984’ character Winston Smith questioning who is the enemy we are told we are at war with this week. Oh, and a couple of people in the field of health I heard interviewed on radio yesterday referred to Corona virus as a ‘disease’. It surely isn’t a disease now as well, is it?

In case you were hoping for a wise answer to my comments, well, sorry but that’s not how this piece is ending. Advice? No. not really. A sharing? Yes, I suppose so. Look at the facts. Weigh up the evidence. Check your sources. Trust your gut feeling, your body sense, your intuition rather than a fear based reaction of thought and action, driven by our highly efficient alert system, which to be fair to it is one of the main reasons we as a species are still alive. Shame we are trying so hard to kill ourselves and destroy our one true home.

A topic for another day…..

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