RE: COVID-19: Liberty vs. Safety and Security
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Wow. Great article @roleerob. Congrats!
I just started writing about COVID-19 here on the Hive blockchain. I feel that the more we understand the "socio-political-psycho-spiritual-economic" aspects of it, the more we will be able to make informed decisions for our family and the bigger community. The "threat" is real and we need to have "sober" conversations taking place to check fake news and rumor mongering, which I believe will become more prevalent as the pandemic trudges along its path. In the Philippines, where I currently live, the statistics are lower for many reasons. It might shoot up as the testing capacity increases. Hopefully, the official numbers mirror the actual numbers, if not just be a little higher, but that is my wishful thinking.
I agree with you, it was also very difficult for me to find a "lighter side" to writing about the COVID-19 topic, but I did manage to put in some in my post. Hope you can check it out and give some pointers to a newbie. :)
Thanks for the well written post. Keep safe and be well, my friend!
I appreciate you investing some time into providing some perspective from the Philippines @juanvegetarian.
Yes, well spoken. From the experience of my long life, "... to make informed decisions ..." begins with knowing what is true. I cannot speak for what you experience in your country, but here in America many of us are far short of the confidence we would like to have that our news is "giving it to us straight."
Instead, we are subject to a constant stream of manipulation, at best, and outright deception, at worst. To what end? Well, I don't pretend to know, but I am certainly asking the question that I believe we should all (no matter where in the world we live ...) be asking.
Nothing even remotely close to being this consequential to me and my family has happened in my lifetime. While I cannot say with any certainty, I would imagine that is likely true for many others all over the world.
As I say in closing my post, we will all find out soon enough what is coming ...
Thank you for stopping by and adding value to this post!
P.S. As requested, I will try to carve out some time to read what you have written, as time permits. If I have anything to say, I will comment on your posts.
P.P.S. Assuming English is not your native language, you communicate very well in writing it nonetheless! 👍
The pandemic is really a catastrophe of ginormous impact. All of us should be able to decide for ourselves and our family on matters that will affect us. Governments will do its thing, same here in our country, but the effects are the same-death and suffering, especially for the poor families without much social and economic protection.
English is not my native language, but it is taught in school and I do love to read and watch English movies, so I feel very much at home speaking and writing in this language.
By the way, thanks for reading my post about COVID-19 and leaving a comment. I will take time to absorb and act on it.
So, keep safe and be well @roleerob.