Coronaviris is Not the End of The World or Even Close to It

-The news of the day and past days has droned on in length about this latest reason to Acoust our minds with another media drama. Hour after Hour we are drilled with epic tales of the fatality numbers of people dying.Newscasts showing the results of cities clustered into small areas. This scene could be from third world countries.

Generations of mindless planning a new project to add to the clustering of places to live and work. It just proves that those who refuse to learn from the past are destined to repeat it until they learn the lesson properly (to Paraphrase).
People building living quarters on top of each other with streets jammed with moving bodies of humans. It is not a third world country at all. These cities are in 1rst world countries with modern technologies. These cities boast the most modern things to make life good. These cities for all their modern things still have people living in ridiculously close proximity to each other as was the case in the dark ages.

The most populated areas of Europe in the dark ages were desolated by the Black plague. Fleas on rats which ran rampant after cats were deemed evil by the Catholic Church. Many cats were tortured and brutally killed to appease the Pope's whim. The rats took over and were uncontrollable. Plague ran rampant. People were ignorant. Most were not even able to read or write at that time in history.

The difference I draw here is not the people's knowledge or technologies.it is the fact that there are too many people living into small space. The chance of a major pandemic is getting greater as these cities grow into Megacities.

Imagine a future city of 100Milion people. They are at the peak of technology. They have developed a society of peace and prosperity unknown to mankind's past. One day this technologically condescending city is struck by the tiniest living thing known to man, A virus. Able to mutate as nothing else imaginable.the technology would not be any difference between the dark ages and the modern or the future.
A virus is a virus is a virus.

Our cities are just too big to prevent thousands of people from contracting and killing each other. Our world has gotten too crammed together to prevent this type of disaster from happening. It will accure again, Perhaps in a more mutated and deadly form.

We must prepare our world for another more deadly virus whether or not it happens. The option would be to spread our cities out over the empty places in the world. That is very unlikely to happen any time in the future.No habitual places on this earth are not owned by someone or something.

The only preventive solution is to power up the ability to mutate a deadly virus to a helpful virus, Perhaps genetically engineering the RNA to be more adaptive to other causes.make a negative into a positive. I would hope to be studying what makes a virus so very deadly in the future. It seems to be a weak link in our genetics. It is a problem that may kill us one day if we don't find a solution.

There is one index that I have to solve the problem of big companies stalling to find solutions to our problems. During the COVID-19 lockdown, people from all walks of life got together and manufactured facemasks and worked on homemade ventilators in home workshops.

How about a Seti type research network that will work on disease cures.Home computers working in off-hours as one mass processing unit to work out solutions to our threats that are becoming our daily routine. Seti has not found intelligent life yet to my knowledge, virus infections are not intelligent life as we know it. It sure is giving our lives a run for the money.

Till next time friends.
May God Smile on you and yours.
RJP

New York Association of Phychiatric Rehabilitation Services Convention in The Catskill Mountains

Nyaprs for short.I attended the convention for the third year to see what I could learn from the folks.The people are from all walks of life.They arrive from all over the world to hear the workshops regarding Mental and physical health.The atmosphere is always light and friendly there.The workshops are generally for those who have had a hard road out of some mental or physical situation that effects them.Many are like myself that have fought ourselves out of a very dark place in our lives.My own story is one of a physical nature.I had a blood clot pass through my brain and temporarily

Blinded my sight.The time before that is for a couple years sorta a blur.I was to the point that I didn't remember where I was.I would be a mile from home in a car someone else was driving.I was headed for a nursing home soon.For the first time in my life I was truly terrified that I would be locked up in a place they put people waiting to die...

For the grace of God go I.The Clot broke up and made itself known.The doctors put stents in my heart and opened my arteries to clear out gunk.I am still balancing on a very narrow tightrope.The changes in my life lead some friends to arrange my transportation to my first convention looking for ideas.That was before my clot broke up.

My younger sister went with me as she had been a member for years.Her background in social services and elder care was known by people at nyaprs.I didn't want to go out of both fear and embarrassment.Hey I said to myself,"hey those people have some real problems,I am not like them".

I arrived to some warm and loving folks who were understanding enough to tell me I had need for fears because everyone there was fighting their way back from something.

Pop foreword to my trip this year.
I went with a clear mind that has still some problems that won't let me come out of a forced retirement do to that clot.But I walk without my cane most of the time now.I still have to catch a ride but I have learned to ride public transit so it is not so bad.

Enough of why I attend.Let me tell you what I learned.Did you ever wonder why you were afraid of things your parents were also afraid of.There may not have even been a life experience involved.
or perhaps abuse from your parents in childhood by their parents transferred to you?
Okay not to say your being compared to rats but that is where the discovery came from.

Lab rats were fed what they loved most,Sweets.They loved those sweets.The scientist then connected a tiny electrical charge to the sweets.Now every time the rats would try to grab some sweets they got zapped.Well after awhile the rats would not even try for the sweets.Even after the charge was removed the rats wouldn't touch or go near the sweets.Conditioning like Pavlov's dog you might be thinking.Perhaps that was also the scientists thoughts till they went abit further.

The shocks in the past would have been called conditioned.Pavloks dog got a treat each time a bell rang.The rat got zapped.Incentive and reward.Reward/punishment.Conditioned reflexes...?
The scientists ran test to determine anything else that would be showing up.They were surprised by what they found.

The rats genetics had been changed by the conditioning from fearing the sweets.The gene that craved the sweets was switched off.It was why the rat no longer wanted the sweets.That was very surprising to those researchers til the next series of tests came back to the lab.

Not only was the test rats gene craving sweets turned of but so was the rats offspring gene turned off.
 They also found by further tests that the gene can in time be switched back on in the future.It did not explain how.

you may be asking yourself how this is anything to do with mental illness and I will explain in a tiny example.

Any condition that a human goes through for a period of time the researchers are discovering has a direct effect on the human genes.That is the same for sweets,violence,abuse,trauma,stress.A list that would never end if it were even tried.

Those researchers found that our very genetics are effected by every point in our day and night.Every point of our lives.My trigger as lifestyle and stress.I have changed my life to hopefully switch that death dealing gene off for as long as possible.Life is tough even the strongest of people haven't made it out alive.

The stress and craziness around us is changing us each heartbeat of our existence.The more we learn about whats going on right there in front of us behind our backs,The more we should look at changing our lives.Changing our ideas to take away stress and violence.It is being sewn into the very genetics of our being.

That has seemed to be the our destiny till now.Our job as humans who claim to be the top of the food chain.The top of the intellectual totem pole standing on all other things,is to find a way quickly to switch those genes that are the nuclear trigger of existence the triggers that can finalize our chances of any future for ourselves.

That is what I learned at nyaprs convention.The damage or switches that are either our friend or Nemesis is within us all.we have the power to change even the very genetics of ourselves simply by re-enforcing the things that need to be changed.No electric shock required...

WE THE PEOPLE  can change the world if we just start withourselves first.

RJP