Corona virus

Ugh... It's nasty.  But what's more nasty - the bug itself or the response to it?  I say the latter.  And the USA global response is one of the worse.  

I'm on lockdown in beautiful Santiago de compestella for 15 days. Not fun, but could be worse...like having gotten on an airplane.

From what I've read from multiple sources, Trump's administration and the punk himself have so mismanaged this.  Causing widespread panic in Europe where Americans flocked to airports to go home unnecessarily... And then wait in very close quarters with thousands of people in poor ventilated airports (planes,esp new ones have great air cleaners) will likely excerbated sicknesses and flus.  Europe is still complaining about how the USA dropped this flight ban with no pre warning.

I'm not halfway anymore on this.  Elon musk is right ' this is just plain dumb'. The news medias reaction is worse than the flu.  Countries' lockdowns... China, Korea, Italy, Spain, France and many more to follow are good and may become our future norm each winter. But it is not the solution, just a distopia.

The solution is right in front of us.  We need to go to the heart of the problem.  It's not just open food markets in China+++.  California and the USA has had multiple outbreaks of listeria, food safety issues etc.  And what's our solution. Each and every time?  War on nature.  Bleach, ammonia, spraying who knows what toxic chemicals.. and how is nature responding to our chemical warfare? With bees' collapsing, with new mutations, with ever more aggressive and ingenious mutations of viruses, etc.  

When I studied biomimcry and met Jane benyus a decades ago, I remember there were three iterations:

Biomimcry Patterns/methods, processes, strategies

Tactics is like our Velcro... Seeing to emulate little sticklers that cling to our socks and pants, someone copied that nature's method and I invented Velcro.  But the biomimetic process of sticklers assures that they decompose and don't last forever like our plastic Velcro does. Another nastier examp!e of biomimetic processes is the peregrine falcon and how the Air Force F18s and others mimic a peregrine's flight patterns

And then there's biomimcry strategies.  Nature has some interesting responses to our war against it.  This corona virus is just the latest example.  Ebola, SARS, pig/bird/cow? Flus etc have multiple variations that seem to evolve to outmaneuver each humans' response.  It's almost like nature has a spy inside the CDC and. WHO.  Each outbreak gets more contagious, more virulent, more aggressively spreading.  It's almost like nature is trying to tell us something.

But we're not listening.  I just read that the Trump administration is aggressively pursuing a corona virus vaccine that the Europeans have developed with mula money to make it available to USA citizens only!! Wow. Real or not it seems typical.

A long term solution to all this is permaculture.  Emulating nature.  It's one of the few systems that is most known of throughout the world and practices in multiple countries.  I've designed my own forest sanctuary along its principles, teach energy permaculture, and have spent over 15 years learning, living and loving it.  It's really simple:. 

The first step everyone can take is to throw out (properly discard, recycle?) ALL chemical toxins from your home. 

The one I'm on the fence about is bleach. It's very toxic to nature...almost like declaring nuclear war on bacteria.

 I use it very,very sparingly and in very diluted form.  It's more effective than vinegar (my go-to cleaner/disinfectant).  And I usemit mostly twice a year in deep cleanings and when visitors come.