CORONAVIRUS 

 

( I wrote this text as an “appeal” on March 18, 2020, when we were stunned by the great surprise of the pandemic of “corona virus” that struck us at that time.
In this text there are historical, psychological and sociological truths about pandemics as I understand them as well as my personal feelings and concerns about infections, pandemics, borders, human psyche … especially since I myself was sure that the new virus is not the act of nature but the innovation of a few people in the world about whose danger to human life I was not sure. For that reason, I stopped holding classes live. About following lock-downs you already know…
However, today in 2021, it is already clear to everyone that the corona virus is just a variant of the flu and that the pandemic was imposed on us for many inhumane reasons by several inhumane but financially powerful people. I left the text on my website. Update in other texts. )

 

Coronavirus like any other virus is life to itself.

If the all-round climate fits it will naturalize, if does not it will leave, and wait for some new suitable climate.

Viruses and major epidemics have changed the history of the world, the borders between countries and continents on this beautiful planet, they have changed borders in human consciousness, human qualities and non-qualities, communication between people. Religions have spread thanks to epidemics.

There is nothing more serious on earth than an epidemic. Neither is war as serious as an epidemic.

A virus is not a war in which a person can hide underground (for my fellow citizens: if one finds a place in a bunker filled with retired officers, remember?), or stretch kitchen aluminum foil around the fields and drive away scary airplanes that sow death (remember?) …

 

No one has information on how many people are infected with the Coronavirus today. Maybe I already carry it in my body, maybe you, maybe you already passed it on to your kids or your kids to you.

Nobody knows whether the virus will mutate in bodies that are (like mine currently) impeccably healthy or are already more or less weak, whether it will become more aggressive or completely withdraw.

We are here all together now, whether we have huge, bigger or smaller mountains of money, whether we are the ones who are running out of money before the end of the month or homeless, whether we are employed, free lancers or unemployed … the virus makes no difference.

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No one so far in his life had such a mature opportunity to show his personal maturity and most personal balance.

 

( One short reminder to my countrymen )

Even those of us who know perfectly well what war is, to kill and what consequences of killings are, to live with a kilo or two of white flour and white sugar and a liter or two of sunflower oil a month, or without electricity and water, even we very insolent ones and persistent in survival, did not have a more mature opportunity to show our mature mind and personal balance until now.

Even those heads and hearts (here I think of all people who know what a human tragedy is) who had new tasks to solve the puzzle of intelligence, seem to have failed in denying the bribed comfort of life.

Those who, fortunately or unluckily, have never seen pictures of such profoundly harsh truths of life now also have the most mature opportunity to show their personal maturity and balance in theirs intelligence.

So, these for the first time, my written and pronounced divisions into “we” and “they” here and now do not make any sense.

Coronavirus has no interest in our personal past.

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This is not a time when people should compete in the variations and strengths of their psychoses, insecurity or deluxe cynicism.

 

Right now, one should have the measure of sense, despair and in the amateurish calculation of human tragedies.

 

Right now, we need to be in balance with common sense. Our accomplished and incompetent imagination, senseless and intelligent cliquishness should be brought in balance right now.

 

These days and weeks will change history, the meaning of borders between countries and continents as well as those within the human psyche, cells, feelings, thoughts and actions.

These days and weeks are the most ripe opportunity for you to show the degree of your self-control, self-responsibility, maturity and compassion.

This is a time of great exams.

Never forget the famous natural laws that do not miss any of you.

 

Dear friends and students, stay at home these days or weeks.

The coronavirus is like any virus life that sows infection and death.

 

Time does not count. Every your move counts.

There is plenty of food in your country and none of you will be left hungry or thirsty. Each of you had many times more than you really needed in the house a few weeks ago and today you have even more than that.

Get some sleep first, unless you are one of those who can’t work at home. Sleep is, remember, one of the causes of unbalanced health. When your health is balanced it is easier for you, for your children, for your friends and relatives, for your country and for all living systems to manage the entire life on earth.

There are many things you can do about it. If you are lucky enough to be “imprisoned” in a personal library, take the opportunity. Also, this entire book-web site offers you plenty of tips.

There are really many things you can discover and relive right now.

Everything else will come, just stay reasonable, for your sake, for your children, your parents, for me, for all people and all of humanity.

 

Staying at home is not an “deduction of freedom” but an offer to stay alive.

posted: 18 March 2020

edit: photo “in the Province of Bergamo” 22 March 2020