\u201cMay you live in interesting times\u201d\nfunny enough a Chinese wish, and yes, they were right: we do live in\ninteresting times. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
A lot of people ask me what I think\nabout the situation and to put my thoughts on paper. I don\u2019t really worry about this virus itself.\nThere are different things related to this virus to worry about. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
E.g. the economic, social and\npolitical impact in the coming years. And not to forget the next pandemic,\nwhich might be a lot worse than this one. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The most contagious aspect of this\nsituation is not the virus, but the anxiety and fear, the fake news, the\nconspiracy theories, the conflicting information presented by medical science,\nthe confusing statistics showing or proving whatever you want. Indeed, common\nsense is not that common and even rare in this period. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
A thing that worries me more than\nthe virus itself is the lack of knowledge and the nearsightedness of the\nmedical community. So far medical science has not come up with a solution in such\nas a medicine or a vaccine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But when Chinese doctors give\nChinese herbs to their patients, when otherdoctors work with IV vitamin C or\nwhen they are repurposing medications like chloroquine, methylene blue or\nivermectin, they encounter the doubt and criticism of their colleagues. Even if\nthey have never tried or even heard of these possible solutions. Which is an\ninsult to these colleagues who do try, and their patients who have at least a\nbetter change to survive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
If I would be infected and have a\nchoice between dying from the infection for sure or take a chance of even 10%\nof survival by taking one of these well-known, but unproven substances, I would\ncertainly do so. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And here is my observation: doctors\nwho often advise their patients not to take medication or supplements as effect\nis not proven (yet) or because of safety reasons, are taking them themselves or\ngiving them to their family when their health is in danger. This I find\nincomprehensible and inexcusable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The virus has been around for a long\ntime, longer than we and we always have been in a continuous conflict with\nviruses and microbes. Sometimes we have the upper hand, but now a virus has.\nSometimes we are at the top of the food chain, now we are below the virus. A\ndifferent biological view is that the human species is a virus or parasite\nitself. Don\u2019t bother thinking about this, you might run into some truths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Think about this though: no matter\nwhat we think of ourselves, God\u2019s greatest creation or the ultimate product of\nevolution, nobody will miss us when the human species has disappeared, most\nlikely by our own behavior. No animal, plant or tree will feel sorry for us not\nbeing around anymore. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I came to this thought by looking\nat the bright side of it: pollution is down (look at satellite pictures before\nand during the lockdowns and the minimized air travel, the canals in Venice are\ncleaner than before, animals are getting into the city during the lockdown, the\ncrime rates are down, terrorism and wars stopped, even if it is temporarily,\nless people die from (car-accidents). \nAll positive right? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But what will happen when the\nlockdown is over? I am afraid, it will\nbe business as usual and we will try to pick up where we left. The virus learns\nquickly, human beings do not. I am not a preacher of doom, but we always tend\nto neglect the warning signs that something major is going to happen: the Pearl\nHarbor attack, the fall of the Berlin wall, nuclear accidents like Chernobyl or\nFukushima, 9-11 and now this. None of the so-called experts have seen this one\ncoming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Or it could be this is a\nbifurcation point. We will not be able to continue in this way, so things will\nbe a lot better than before or a lot worse than before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some time ago, I was with a good\nfriend and mentor of mine, Carmelo Bosco. And after working hard on the\ndevelopment of the vibration platform, we were sitting in a restaurant in Rome.\nThe waitress, who wasn\u2019t the prettiest girl in the world, wore a T-shirt with a\ngreat statement. We both started\nlaughing about the deep truth in this statement. And if one statement becomes\nmore applicable than ever in this period, it is that one: \u201cwhat you don\u2019t have,\nyou don\u2019t need\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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