If that’s news to you, I suggest following @1goodtern on twitter, who tweets regularly about many aspects of covid currently being ignored by the mainstream. But please also go and read some good science journalism on what happens to human bodies with repeated covid infections.
random google search for repeat covid infection
In some ways I can understand why so many people are in denial about covid. When I think about the coming decades and the burden on the health and welfare systems from post-covid chronic illness, as well as the impact on many of the businesses, services, and production that we all rely on because so many people have health problems, it’s hard to imagine what it will be like or how it can be true. Climate change seems more manageable and real by comparison.
It’s not like the acute crisis has ended either.
We are not without hope. In the mainstream, two things that are known to limit transmission of covid are N95 or higher masks, and ventilation systems. These are things we could be doing as a society right now.
In the bigger picture, we still have the opportunity to merge the climate, ecology and pandemic crisis responses within a regenerative and resiliency frame. This means changing how we do things and how we live our lives, and placing sustainability at the core of everything. None of those crises is going away including covid, but we still have choices about whether they cause chaos or we adapt and transform.
Resilience would be things like manufacturing more pharmaceuticals in New Zealand, so we are not at the mercy of shifting global supply. But it would also be redeveloping a culture of looking after our health. If you are sick, stay home. Government and workplaces need to extend sick leave for this to happen.
Educate people in the basics of fever and respiratory virus management at home so they don’t have to rely on GPs and hospitals so much. For those that are so inclined, there are non-pharmaceutical ways of treating colds and flus, promoting health and lessening the burden on strained systems.
So many things we could be doing if we shifted from denial and clinging to our concepts of the way life should be, towards the opportunity to change things for the better. If the last three years have taught us anything, it’s that radical change can happen and we can still be ok. Imagine if we did that change proactively instead of waiting for it to be forced on us.
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