Now...onto the good stuff. With some of the best numbers of the Delta surge in the nation, the SF Bay Area announced that they will be easing mask mandates next Friday.
The Delta surge is interesting; it looks to be following that similar COVID ebb and flow of roughly two months. That aspect of this virus is fascinating.
This is Yahoo, but it's the same article that originally appeared in the NY Times "Morning" publication (which is excellent, by the way).
One thing that sticks out at me, primarily because I have posted it here before, is this quote:
“We’ve ascribed far too much human authority over the virus,” as Michael Osterholm, an infectious-disease expert at the University of Minnesota, has told me.
And how does that authority transpire into the reactions of the people? By generating fear, you create panic and in the state of panic people will start to look for help and end up resorting to their leaders for guidance on what to do.
This leads followers to easily be manipulated into authoritarian control and demands. It then forms a justification for the authority under the context of public safety and the health of the community, for their mandates and orders.
And this quote from that article shows that fear of the unknown...
Public health researchers do not understand why. Many popular explanations — such as seasonality or the ebbs and flows of mask wearing and social distancing — are clearly insufficient, if not wrong. The two-month cycle has occurred during different seasons of the year and occurred even when human behavior was not changing in obvious ways.
The most-plausible explanations involve some combination of virus biology and social networks. Perhaps each virus variant is especially likely to infect some people but not others — and once many of the most vulnerable have been exposed, the virus recedes. And perhaps a variant needs about two months to circulate through an average-sized community.
Also, if you took a vaccine then your symptoms should be similar to the common cold. And thus, it's not an illness one should be concerned about more so than the other sicknesses you can still get, unrelated to the Covid-19 strand of Coronaviruses.
Well, I think the "fear" is the problem; we KNOW that there are fundamental differences in how people assimilate and deal with "fear", and there are even studies that show how those differences feed (generally) into political party affiliations. Just because Person A is "fearful" of COVID and goes and gets a vaccine, doesn't mean that Person B will do the same in the face of the same fear.
I'm also just as "fearful" of government overreach and furthering this opinion that government is here to protect us from ourselves. So which "fear" controls?
I don't necessarily have "fear" of the government more so that I have generational trauma caused by the governments treatment of my people and my ancestors, and also my grandparents.
This knowledge of what we knew that very well could've, and does, benefit the people was demolished and wiped away. Our Self-Dependancy was taken by making us assimilate into being "christian" and then "civilized". Now we are dependant and reliant on the very people that did this to us.
The trauma caused by the government and distrust of it, overweighs my fear of the virus. And it's true, look at the abuse of power the leaders are doing playing off of the fear people have of this virus.
And in this modern society people fear a lot of things because of their ignorance. Humans have a natural fear of the unknown. While others do not have that fear and will take the risk, to help that bear that fell, to rescue that kid stuck in the train tracks, or help that women being mugged rather than recording the incident happening so they can get social media likes.
Now...onto the good stuff. With some of the best numbers of the Delta surge in the nation, the SF Bay Area announced that they will be easing mask mandates next Friday.
The Delta surge is interesting; it looks to be following that similar COVID ebb and flow of roughly two months. That aspect of this virus is fascinating.
This is Yahoo, but it's the same article that originally appeared in the NY Times "Morning" publication (which is excellent, by the way).
One thing that sticks out at me, primarily because I have posted it here before, is this quote:
“We’ve ascribed far too much human authority over the virus,” as Michael Osterholm, an infectious-disease expert at the University of Minnesota, has told me.
And how does that authority transpire into the reactions of the people? By generating fear, you create panic and in the state of panic people will start to look for help and end up resorting to their leaders for guidance on what to do.
This leads followers to easily be manipulated into authoritarian control and demands. It then forms a justification for the authority under the context of public safety and the health of the community, for their mandates and orders.
And this quote from that article shows that fear of the unknown...
Public health researchers do not understand why. Many popular explanations — such as seasonality or the ebbs and flows of mask wearing and social distancing — are clearly insufficient, if not wrong. The two-month cycle has occurred during different seasons of the year and occurred even when human behavior was not changing in obvious ways.
The most-plausible explanations involve some combination of virus biology and social networks. Perhaps each virus variant is especially likely to infect some people but not others — and once many of the most vulnerable have been exposed, the virus recedes. And perhaps a variant needs about two months to circulate through an average-sized community.
Also, if you took a vaccine then your symptoms should be similar to the common cold. And thus, it's not an illness one should be concerned about more so than the other sicknesses you can still get, unrelated to the Covid-19 strand of Coronaviruses.
Well, I think the "fear" is the problem; we KNOW that there are fundamental differences in how people assimilate and deal with "fear", and there are even studies that show how those differences feed (generally) into political party affiliations. Just because Person A is "fearful" of COVID and goes and gets a vaccine, doesn't mean that Person B will do the same in the face of the same fear.
I'm also just as "fearful" of government overreach and furthering this opinion that government is here to protect us from ourselves. So which "fear" controls?
Are you talking about the current government that wants t save lives or the past government that willingly spreading misinformation that has costs hundreds of thousands of lives needlessly?
The government that spread misinformation about minorites such as the slaves and the native peoples being called, hopeless and savage by the newspapers to generate a reaction against the minorites and keep them under white superiority and dominance.
According to the Christians/Catholics, we were savage pagans that needed to be saved from eternal damnation. Because they care so much about our souls not being given the eternal glory of heaven. And the church misinformed their congregation that our ways were evil and demon.
And then the government did the same thing, only we were savage and needed to become "model citizens" of civilization to become a part of this great empire called America, as we were considered a problem. So they said, "The only good indians are dead." So we must "Destroy the Indian, while saving the man" straight psychological warfare by taking away the children into the boarding schools.
That's exactly what they did and why I just laugh because that hand we minorites were dealt has been dealt to the American people now. Albeit it's more a push than a shove.
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