Lockdown 2020 - Modern Man

The change came quickly but not quick enough.

Could the lockdown have happened sooner? Yes!

Could it have happened quicker? No?

Had we locked down in January, had we stopped international travel in January, had we acted when China did, could we have stopped the outbreak?

I would think yes, but what do I know?

Yet common sense tells me as a society, had we been better prepared, willing, educated, committed, disciplined, informed to do what is necessary in the event of catastrophe we could of stopped it, reduced the impact to society, saved lives, saved time and reduced despair.

If we could go back and do things differently, would we?

I am sure we would, as so many of us would if gifted with hindsight, if gifted with foresight.

Maybe this was the best option, maybe this was the only way? I doubt that.

Common sense again makes me doubt that and I wonder could we of been better prepared, could we have been ready and in the future will we be ready?

Ready for circumstance & environment change or is this the end and is it already to late?

Common sense kicks in again and I rise above that thought, the thought that lingers, is this the end? I say no, not today!

We have gone through bad times in our evolution, countless times before and we have survived and we will survive because we are survivors, survivors by evolution, survivors by nature, as long as the World turns we will live, we may loose individuals, we may suffer and mourn, our societies may change, our lifestyles may alter, but the collective, the whole, the society, the species, We, will go on.

Still its hard to adjust, the veil has been lifted to hearts and minds that haven't seen fear & death, haven't felt its grip, its sorrow. We bathed in comfort to deeply & have once again been faced with fear. The last taste the cold war, the backdrop of obliteration on a nuclear scale, that which scarred the psyche of generations, who lived through the daily worry of potential human annihilation by our own hands, thankfully our leaders made peace they found balance, they had to find balance or face destruction.

Now we are here, conflict and human suffering has followed in many lands, yet once again we are faced with collective global species wide destruction and it takes minds & hearts time to adapt to that change.

Could we have acted sooner? Yes, Isolated quicker? My initial answer was and remains no. The change to society, any change to the collective way of life, too quick to happen to so many carries high risk, damage to the mind, damage to the fabric of society, damage that would far exceed the pandemic itself. Even when faced with an absolute force of death, shocked into awakening to the new environment, the new conditions for life, its hard to adapt and yet we can and do adapt quickly. As individuals we can react to immediate environment change instantaneously, but wholesale change across society, across the globe, to many all at once that is a different challenge.

There will be those amongst us who have changed seamlessly, those who changed willingly, those who changed reluctantly, those who changed begrudgingly and those who are still in denial and still putting lives at risk. Too stubborn to adapt to new conditions, unable to adapt to new conditions, not until they see the despair with their own eyes and senses will they be prepared to change but by then it maybe too late.

Considering the World we live, in these times of quick and rapid change, in the face of this new unrelenting disease and our willingness to put our lives and societies into the hands of scientists and medical experts.

Our willingness to have faith in these great minds of humanity to rely on them for care when its needed for individuals and loved ones.

Our willingness to rely on them for answers on how to respond in this time of crisis, rely on them for hope, for resolve, for life.

The advise and findings of humanities scientists who gathering evidence, researching, experimenting and following universal truth regardless of our prejudice, even if they don't fully understand it, to have faith in the answers they are faced with, counter intuitive or not.

We hold them to great expectation, that they will find a cure, that they will create a vaccine that they have to do this now, immediately, despite the majority of us having no knowledge of what we are asking, of what we are demanding.

Reflecting on that great expectation, that blind faith in science;

The same minds and process of science and universal truths are finding answers on imminent catastrophic climate change and are then giving us stark and clear warnings that action is required to change now or face imminent destruction. I hope that coming from the dark place of this SARS 2020 outbreak, of the 2020 pandemic, that we will act and act quickly following the science that we have so gladly followed for survival through this pandemic and transfer the same faith and focus into reducing climate change, or will we all to eagerly forget and return to bathe in comfort until our environment changes again?

I hope not.

The scientists hope not...

We should all hope not........