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Coronavirus: an Opportunity?
Tragedy is not an opportunity, but equally every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
Assuming the opposite of disease is health, then if we are rattled and gripped by ‘dis-ease’ should we not reach for the opposite reaction and battle for a ‘positive-ease.’
I do not mean to be irreverent or flippant in any way. I have total sympathy with those afflicted by and working toward solving the dilemma which is rattling the structure of societies around the globe. Mere words of admiration for the effort and risk from service members keeping society functioning are inadequate.
From my apartment in Barcelona, where the lock-down informally began on Mar 11th and went full swing on the 12th, the past three weeks have been a contradictory time of fear and self belief, of reflection and frustration, of consternation and understanding.
Fear of an unknown is a far more insidious, creeping pain than a simple physical injury. A physical injury can be quantified, objectified, but the unknown is beyond such a simple definition. Yet the alarm of the unknown is stifled by the support and out-pouring of humanity that resounds through neighborhoods worldwide, when…