Let us be kind to one another, as someone wrote over 2000 years ago. What does it mean to be civilized? Does it not mean we reject the law of the jungle, of the survival only of the fittest, and the devil take the hindmost? That instead the strong take care of the weak?
“Mead said that the first sign of civilization in an ancient culture was a femur (thighbone) that had been broken and then healed… A broken femur that has healed is evidence that someone has taken time to stay with the one who fell, has bound up the wound, has carried the person to safety and has tended the person through recovery. Helping someone else through difficulty is where civilization starts, Mead said.”
Monday Musings 23 March 2020, David Perell and apparently quoted in Ira Byock, The Best Care Possible: A Physician’s Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life (Avery, 2012)
We are at our best when we serve others. Be civilized.
From the WHO website:
- Total cases over 330,000
- Total deaths 14,600+
- China 81.603
- Italy 59,138 (+5560 since March 22)
- USA 31,573 (+ 4826 since March 22)
- France 15,821 (+ 1336 since March 22)
- S Korea 8,961
- Switzerland 6,971 (just overtook UK)
- UK 5,687 (+ 620 since March 22)
- Australia 1,709
- Malaysia 1,306 (just overtook Japan)
- Japan 1,089 cases (+ 34 since March 22)
- Singapore 455 cases (next door to Malaysia and they just closed the border)
- Taiwan got dropped off the WHO map! 215 according to Johns Hopkins map. (+ 62 since March 22)
And just for perspective, as a good friend recently reminded me, the mortality rate for humans has been very stable for a very, very long time – 100%!
#1 by Duncan White on March 25, 2020 - 5:44 am
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Hello Mark,
Interesting recent observations here today:
http://blog.banditobooks.com/history-has-taught-us/
1. This ‘virus’ outbreak phenomenon has indications of being intentional
2. Report of existing antidote withheld
And more comments, thoughts.
#2 by sheffner on March 29, 2020 - 12:29 pm
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Interesting (I was an avid reader of Weisbecker’s stuff a while back), but too much anecdotal or unsubstantiated rumour for my taste, especially in the comments. The sudden outbreaks in different parts almost simultaneously are somewhat suspicious, I agree, but as far as Italy is concerned, there are over 100,000 Chinese working in that area in the garment/fashion industry, and close ties to Wuhan, so other explanations exist.