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“ There are time in history when sudden events — natural disasters , economic flop , pandemics like Coronavirus , state of war , famines — change everything . They change political relation , they vary economic science and they change public opinion in drastic ways .
ByRonnie Cummins , generator ofGrassroots Rising : A Call to Action on Climate , Farming , Food , and a Green New Deal , and in the beginning appeared on theOrganic Consumers Associationwebsite . It has been adapted for the World Wide Web .
Many social movement psychoanalyst call these “ trigger events . ” During a trigger event , thing that were antecedently unimaginable quickly become reality , as the societal and political map is remade . Coronavirus is a historic gun trigger event — and it call for a Movement to Respond . ”Paul Engler , March 16 , 2020
The frightening Coronavirus pandemic , slow but surely infecting millions , fire an economic and political meltdown and metastasizing in the midst of a globular Climate Emergency , has pushed a critical peck of us all to the brink .
Words can barely impart our waking incubus , or fully let out the cabal of monsters and the profligate “ clientele - as - usual ” practices that have brought on this disaster . Like a horror movie rerun , every night I waken up .
How did we ever let this happen ? What can we do to protect ourselves and others ? Can we rise to the occasion and get up a massive Grassroots Rising , head off disaster , and take advantage of this tragic “ induction second ” ?
Can we deal with the degenerative practices that have unleashed this mega - crisis and bring to heel the culprit , the greedy elite group who created and/or abetted this catastrophe ?
As an international chorus of clime , environmental and political loss leader warned this hebdomad , it ’s now or never “ to rule our fears , build Bob Hope and drive activeness to respond to the human health , economic , mood and biodiversity crisis with solution that build resilient societies on the retentive condition . ”
Protect yourself and others. Take control of your health. Force governments to provide necessary resources.
We must protect ourselves and others , specially the most vulnerable . Solidarity and common good sense order that we change what up until now has been considered “ normal ” behaviour .
In North America , and all over the creation , we demand to maintain and pace up the social hygiene , distancing and quarantine subroutine that are perfectly necessary to reduce infections , to “ flatten the curve ” of a disease 10 times more lethal and three sentence more pathogenic than late grippe epidemics .
But to flatten the curve we necessitate to take that our governments put money in the hands of workers and their families ( and little clientele ) so that they can give to stay home for months , or for as long as it bring .
We must allow for hand brake stock and resources to hospitals , healthcare workers , and clinic so they can screen , separate , isolate and treat those infected and break to the Coronavirus .
Constant helping hand - laundry and spatial distancing are dead necessary , even if we ’re healthy , with stern spatial isolation if we ’ve been exposed to those carrying the virus . Stay out from aged hoi polloi and those with flimsy wellness .
My extended family and our activist staff and networks have debar case - to - face link and are using email , text messages , shared pic and Zoom calls to stay in speck .
Beyond spacial distancing we all postulate to strengthen our immune systems and preserve our strong-arm and genial wellness for the challenges that lie ahead . Even though we ’ve all heard it before , now is the time for action . Now is the clock time , as natural health loss leader Dr. Joseph Mercola tells us , to “ Take control of your wellness . ”
Here’s some of what we all need to do, today and every day.
Let’s talk about the real roots of this pandemic
Here ’s what Jane Goodallrecently saidabout the pandemic crisis :
“ All over the world we ’ve been demolish the places where animals know in purchase order to get materials to build our home , our cities and to make our own lives more well-situated . And as a consequence , we ’ve bring the climate crisis on ourselves . Many coinage of animals and plants have become nonextant . And our too - close relationship with baseless animals in the markets , or when we habituate them for entertainment , has let loose the brat and misery of new virus . ”
The coronavirus pandemic , like the climate crisis , is not an accident , nor an act of God . Both of these existential menace have arisen out of a U.S. and global food , farming , energy , resourcefulness extraction , economical , militaristic “ national security ” and trading system that is degenerative , unethical , unjust and as we see now , self - destructive .
As Vandana Shiva level out :
“ young diseases are being make because a globalized industrialize , ineffective food and farming model is invade the bionomical home ground of other specie and manipulate animals and plants with no regard for their integrity and their health . . . The wellness pinch that the coronavirus is waking us up to is connected to the emergency of extinction and disappearance of coinage , and it is unite to the clime hand brake . All emergencies are rooted in a mechanistic , militaristic anthropocentric world view of world as separate from , and superscript to other beings whom we can own , manipulate and restraint . It is also rooted in an economical model free-base on the trick of limitless growing and limitless avarice . . . . ”
Unless we can stop large corporations and desperate people from destroying the habitats of wild animals , such as bats , pangolin , and civet . . . unless we can shut down the fauna factories where pig , poultry and other miserable tool are crammed together in lousy disease - ridden environments , gourmandize with genetically organize animal feeds and dose with drug ensure to unfold antibiotic resistance and virulent pathogens . . . unless we can alleviate the poverty that forces people to sheer down their woods and hunt and consume and bring to market wild wight . . . unless we as witting worldwide citizen can stop buying and devour the inhumane and dangerous factory - farmed foods and intersection made from forest - killing commodity such as industrial palm oil and GMO soybeans . . . unless we can give up multinational corp from clearcutting tropic rainforests , cover up grasslands and savannas and destroy wetland and marine ecosystem , and instead reforest , regenerate and restore damage ecosystem . . . unless we can break down the walls of the manufactory farms and get 50 billion confine farm animals back out on the soil grazing and scrounge in a holistic and regenerative fashion that sequesters atomic number 6 and reduces rural poorness . . . unless we can convey out a spherical food , farming , land - use , energy and political regeneration , we will have more emerge virus and diseases , an out - of - control clime emergency and the endless wars , impoverishment and conflict that rise up out of our militarised “ net income at any cost ” economical organization .
In Sonia Shan’srecent articlein The Nation magazine she quotes epidemiologist Larry Brilliant , whoonce said , “ eruption areinevitable , but pandemic are optional . ”
But , as Shan points out :
“ . . . pandemic only remain optional if we have the will to disrupt our politics as readily as we disrupt nature and wildlife . In the end , there is no genuine mystery about the animal source of pandemics . It ’s not some spiky scale pangolin or furred take flight bat . It ’s population of lovesome - full-blood primates : The genuine brute informant is us . ”
The myth of ‘national security’ and the global military-industrial complex: disturbing information
The whole notion of “ internal security ” ( i.e. “ my regular army or my nuclear artillery or my biologic weapons are more powerful than yours ” ) is exposed as insanity when pandemics such as the coronavirus , or looming cataclysm such as runaway spherical heating ( which will require global cooperation to cease greenhouse gasolene emissions and draw down excess greenhouse gases in the aura and sequester them in our grunge , industrial plant and forests ) , ascend up and model experiential threats to us all .
It ’s not clear-cut yet whether COVID-19 was weaponized in one of the public ’s legion , and close , chemical substance and biologic warfare laboratories ( such as the ones inFort Detrick , Maryland , or the one in Wuhan , China ) and then was accidentally or purposely release , or whether its toxic potency was accelerated by “ normal ” genetic mutations as it pass from bats and scaly anteater through humans .
But there are disturb facts about coronavirus , biowarfare and slack security in the universe ’s grow net of chemical and biological war labs that the commercial-grade mass medium and world governments are n’t telling us about .
Francis Boyle , a sound expert on chemical and biological weapon , who author theU.S. Biological Weapons Anti - Terrorism Act of 1989 — pass nemine contradicente by both houses of Congress and signed into law — and which blackball offensive chemical and biologic weapon system and research , has statedthat he believes the COVID-19 computer virus was weaponize and then by chance secrete .
BoylesuspectsCOVID-19 is a weaponized pathogen that escaped from Wuhan City ’s Biosafety Level 4 facility , which was
specifically set up to research coronaviruses and SARS . According to Boyle , the COVID-19 virus is a Chimaera . It let in SARS , an already weaponize coronavirus , along with HIV transmissible stuff and perchance flu virus . It also has “ amplification of single-valued function belongings ” that reserve it to spread a bully distance than normal .
Last year ( February 27 , 2019 ) the Washington Post published adisturbing articleentitled “ The U.S. is fund dangerous experiment it does n’t want you to know about . ”
“ In 2014 , U.S. official visit a moratorium on experiments to heighten some of the world ’s most deadly viruses by making them contagious by breeze , responding to widespread concerns that a lab accident could actuate a global pandemic . Apparently , the government has decide the enquiry should now move ahead . In the retiring year , the U.S. governmentquietly greenlightedfunding for two chemical group of researchers . . . to conduct infection - enhancing experiment on the bird flu virus . Neither the blessing nor the deliberateness or perspicacity that supported it were announced publicly . This want of transparence is unacceptable . Making decisions to approve potentially dangerous research in hugger-mugger betrays the government ’s responsibility to inform and involve the public when approving endeavour . . . that could put health and lives at risk . Hundreds of researchers . . . publicly opposed these experimentswhen they were first declare . In reply to these concerns , the regime issued a theoretical account in 2017 for especial review of ‘ enhance ’ pathogens that could become adequate to of make a pandemic . The framework . . . require that experts in public - health readiness and response , biosafety , value-system and law , among others , appraise the oeuvre , but it is unclear from the public record if that come about . This secrecy mean we do n’t sleep with how these requirements were applied , if at all , to the experimentation now funded by the government . ”
On August 5 , 2019 , the New York Timesreportedthat the Centers for Disease Control ( CDC ) had closed down ( since reopened ) the most authoritative chemical substance and biologic warfare science lab in the U.S. at Fort Detrick , Maryland , for biosecurity lapse , “ problem with disposal of severe textile . ” Shortly thereafter , the Guardian UK newspaperlinkedto a video in which the CDC Director , Robert Redfield seemed to admit at a Congressional hearing that “ some case ” i.e. deaths from the coronavirus , had been disclose in the U.S. before being identified in Wuhan — no doubt due to the previously documented inability of the U.S. to quiz and swan differences compared with the flu .
Watch thisvideo interviewwith an experient U.S. virologist , Judy Mikovits , who antecedently worked at Fort Detrick on weaponizing , and you ’ll see why we urgently want to intercept the madness , before it ’s too late .
I could go on and on with other disturbing “ coincidences . ” Hopefully COVID-19 was not weaponize in a CBW lab such as Fort Detrick or Wuhan , or at bad it was an accidental release due to a biosecurity lapse , rather than an act of state of war , as the Chinese , Russians and Iranians are now arrogate in response to Trumps ’s warring characterization of COVID-19 as the “ Chinese Virus . ”
The item is that we involve to stop weaponizing viruses and other pathogen in our so - send for “ justificative ” chemical and biologic weapons laboratories across the earth , as external pact dictate . We ask to dribble all U.S.- impose economic authorization across the globe immediately , including those hampering current anti- COVID-19 measures in Russia , Cuba , Iran , Venezuela , Syria , North Korea and other nation .
We are all in this together.
We involve to check swagger and threatening one another . We necessitate to stop spending trillions of buck on bombs and missile and chemical and biologic war program and collaborate on wage warfare against the real monsters that are staring us in the face : COVID-19 and the globose Climate Emergency .
The year 2020 will hopefully be remember by our child and grandchildren as the transformational time when the global grassroots finally wake up to the existential menace of a Climate Emergency and the coronavirus pandemic , and ram our governments to cooperate and take decisive action .
Hopefully , 2020 will be put down in the history book as a time when we mobilized , as never before , to overcome a national and global emergency , and launched a long - overdue political and social rotation , a U.S. and global Green New Deal .
Hopefully the succeeding generation will be inhale by the unprecedented public education , grassroots lobbying , marketplace pressure , civic protest , common aid and Fannie Farmer , energy , community and land - function innovation that will now be unfold , galvanizing ultra political and system change on a wartime scale , with a massive transfer of training of public and private investment from degenerative to regenerative practice .
If not, future generations will look back on 2020 as the beginning of the end.
We have an opportunity . As Paul Englerpoints out :
“ induction event can make confusion and unease . But they also present tremendous chance for the great unwashed who have a plan and know how to use the moment to agitate forward their agendas . These agendas can be far-right , as when Conservative and fascist pass abrasive austerity measures and diffuse xenophobia — the type of body process documented in Naomi Klein ’s ‘ The Shock Doctrine . Yet , this eccentric of response need not run . With a counter - order of business rooted in a commitment to democracy and a deep sense of collective empathy , communities can flourish , even amid a crisis . ”
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