Ok! I’m hearing a lot about the world going to “Hell in a handbasket”. By the way, where did this saying originate and what does it mean, really? I would assume it means that it doesn’t take much – just a small amount to upset the worlds equilibrium. What a load of rubbish.
Is it just me? Who thinks that its taken years of political and environmental neglect for the world to end up where it is right now?
OMG! I am told – this COVID-19 PANDEMIC is something we have never experienced before. Ok… I answer, maybe this generation, but what about all the pandemics in our past history. The last one just a 100 years ago with the number of deaths touted at anywhere up to 50million. And those people suffered without the benefit of the modern medicines and technologies we have.
If I was religious I would say its Gods wrath for our being selfish and destroying the world’s resources… but I’m not.
What I am saying is – it’s just time. Time for another of natures cleansings. Sounds cruel and whilst I personally don’t relish the possibility of losing any of my loved ones, I think we have overlooked the signs it was coming for to long.
Complacency has been rife. Like all the pandemics we have suffered in the past, absolutely no one is excluded from its tentacles of illness and death.
Humanity is having trouble accepting the restrictions that have been placed on it, and though late, better late than never. Humanity has not learned from past pandemics, they and the world leaders are acting like it’s a new phenomenon. In 1918, during the Spanish Flu borders were closed and isolation enforced, this, before we had globalisation.
However, the thing is that, the same previously neglectful, and incredibly selfish humans, and I do not exclude myself from this indictment, are now standing up to be counted. A generosity of spirit has emerged on the part of our communities, we are banding together and helping each other. We are seeing it all over the world. And despite the few single cell amoebas’ I call hoarders and looters, I can’t help but feel positive about the outcome.
Enough of my ranting, I wish all of you good luck in your travails.
KJS Writing 