Aiora Zabala, via sticking to our good manners, by maintaining solidarity and compassion, and also thru neglecting narcissist behaviours.

Hello Aiora; One of the peculiar aspects of this episode is that what politicians claim to be impossible in normal times become obviously doable. In the USA workplace inequities, medical system inequities and some social inequities are maintained with the claim that fixing them is either too expensive, contrary to democratic principles or pandering to special interest groups.

Suddenly, in just a few days, both parties agreed to spend more than 2 Trillion dollars on fixing, albeit temporarily, the very inequities that one month before couldn't be fixed! The cat is out of the bag! This portrayal is probably true, in broad strokes, throughout the wealthy world. Scandanavia is a likely exception.

The thing that activists can focus on is the doability and wisdom of the "impossible" changes that have been instituted. Best wishes, Jim Des Lauriers

Ideally it would no be possible to maintain or keep these good aspects lock downed permanently, as world will return to its normal routine. So that's mean more carbon footprints. But the lessons learnt from this lock down should be kept in mind.

There are so many things which could be avoided, so many works could done from home/online and so many other good practice could be adopted

After this pandemic,I though We can keep on touch with our relatives and friends.Never having the sense of being egocentric nor hateful to others even they belong to various religins or races.I will keep in my mind all peoples are equal.

The hsitorical analiss of the impacts of Biggest Pandemics, are the most important reference to understand, " The Day after". Exist many research about the consequences of the last Pnademic " A Gripe Espanhola". The States of US has priority of Quarenten in your territory have a more development after the Pandemic. The quarenten mining a Social organitation and important look to the society. The pandemic are like a biggest war. The desorgatin of all sistem on the society. And the quarenten are a necessity of the mainten the minimus social organitation.

Sustainability depends only on the activity of human beings and activity of human beings are controlled by their mentality. It does not depend on education or better to say formal education. People need to learn what they have done before the pandemic situation and most importantly during the inception of the situation. If they learn everything will be sorted out. If they give up greed then they will exist. Because nature knows how to make the itself sustainable.

It can be said that the epidemic, with its severity and gravity, is a test for self-review and identification of imbalances, and an attempt to overcome them in science and rational ways in the future. This spread enabled the awakening of a sense of citizenship, stimulated solidarity in a number of countries, and also highlighted the importance of providing science and medical structures in the level of risks and environmental challenges, and the vitality of investing in scientific research as the true gateway to progress and achieving security in its comprehensive humanitarian concept.

Hi there,

In my perspective, exceptional measures will be hard to keep. The whole system will reboot and will most likely find its way back into unsustainable practices unless we seize this tipping point to delve into the root causes of environmental problems and convince our politicians to take proper and timely action. Epidemiologists suggest that urban sprawl, deforestation and wild meat consumption are very likely to be behind the outbreak of SARS-Cov-2. Development-driven episodes of habitat fragmentation and destruction have exacerbated the chances for virus-carrying species to get in contact with humans thus increasing our chances for getting infected with new pathogens. We, scientists, need to tell our politicians loud and clear that we ought to transcend our current padadigm of wealth accumulation and come up with a more-frugal-yet-healthier way of life. At the end of the day, most of this habitat destruction stems from big bussiness and that is where we should aim at least some of our near-future research to.

Hello folks; I'm referring here to the front page of today's (3 Apr 2020) Los Angeles Times. I'm paraphrasing here… In 2009 the US Agency for International Development was established to study viruses that have the potential to cause pandemics. They identified 1200 such viruses worldwide, including more than 160 novel coronaviruses. The program called PREDICT also trained and supported staff in 60 foreign laboratories, including the Wuhan lab that isolated the COVID-19 virus.

Last year the US administration let that program die without refunding it! In hindsight, that seems like a pretty short-sighted action to take. The termination "saved" $200 million. Chump change given today's perspective. So to the original question of this thread of discussion, our politicians' memories are very short and their constantly changing motivations are most unhelpful. Somehow we need to keep their feet in the fire constantly enough to keep them focused on the long-term issues that matter most. The trick will be to keep the activists' voices from simply becoming part of the background noise of politics as usual. Sorry to be a sour note, Jim Des Lauriers

James Des Laurier's, not a sour note! Just saying it as it, the rate of sudden changes due to shortsightedness, de-motivation by politicians is worse in developing countries. So if the activists in the developed countries are not silenced, we will have more hope. thanks for speaking out.

Home Remedies for COVID-19

Some home remedies may help to protect from respiratory infections or reduce the duration of symptoms

(a) Zinc is responsible for reducing the length of some viral infections and it can be used by using zinc lozenges, syrups, and tablets. The NIH notes that the body needs zinc to create white blood cells that fight infections.

(b) In respiratory infection, Vitamin D is a suitable candidate. During the deficiency period respiratory diseases like tuberculosis and pneumonia are found.

(c) In a Chinese hospital, Vitamin C was put into a phase 2 clinical trial during the outbreak. Researchers were suggested that, as an antioxidant, the vitamin may reduce the lung inflammation COVID-19.

Abhijit Mitra I heard on a radio talk show that a person claimed that their mother-in-law who is a nurse at a hospital in Texas, that patients were being treated with tonic water (which has quinine, anti-malaria compound).

It is also claimed that colloidal silver can help fight viral and bacterial infections. It comes in a solution which can be taken by mouth, but also as a nasal spray and throat spray. And this claim was backed up with testing.

There are also a list of essential oils such as tea tree oil, peppermint, lemon, eucalyptus, lavender, and cinnamon.

https://goodmart.sg/6-essential-oils-to-kill-virus/

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I have also heard that some doctors are taking steam daily. I think it is a good practice. We can do it twice or thrice a day.

I read your question Aiora as a call to action. We need to research and analyze the impacts of the public health measures at the very least to understand how the change in our behaviours and environments e.g. physical distancing, have impacted our psychology (perceptions, motivations etc) so decision makers are well informed about the positive aspects of this period in history might be sustained. Fear, social pressure, social compliance, and well as the positive reinforcement we are getting from each other on various forms of media is a unique aspect of this pandemic; the first of the information age.

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Patience, persistence, non-collapse and maintaining high morale.

Unfortunately I don't believe any of those changes that pertain to people will be sustained over a long period of time. I anticipate it will be similar to the effects of 9/11. All the good was sustained for about 2 years. Regarding the environmental and natural responses, I'm not sure. Some of it can be controlled by the government, the environmental changes and some will be controlled by changes in human behavior. Nature's responses I can't predict if they will be sustained. I think most likely some will and some won't.

It would be interesting to create an After Action Report through a scientific model describing the lagging indicators (morbidity and mortality, environmental and atmospheric changes) with their relationships to each countries' macro economic practice, and emergency response management standards; and then have Actuaries compute and extrapolate the values of the total economic shutdowns with the attendant increasing poverty (extending the period of and increasing fatalities) and forfeiting herd immunity; against the profiling and quarantine of high risk populations (lowest fatalities), then treat and release the remaining populations until herd immunity is achieved. The philosophical question useful as a guiding principle: "is life for living or for existence?" What do you think? I would assist with this. Thank you. Stay healthy.

The key issue is the increase in international cooperation in the implementation of research projects and pro-ecological projects, the aim of which is to indicate a high level of significance of sustainable development, including the rehabilitation of civilization-degraded areas and the protection of biodiversity of natural ecosystems and balance in nature, because reducing the scale of biodiversity and environmental sustainability increasing the risk of further natural disasters consisting in the more frequent occurrence of pest infestation in crop fields, viral, fungal, bacterial diseases caused by protozoa and other microorganisms attacking monocultures of agricultural and forestry crops, etc., and the increasing risk of epidemics among farm animals and among people. It is necessary to increase social knowledge and awareness in this area. A related field is the need to develop pro-ecological reforms in the energy sector through the development of renewable energy sources to reduce the scale of greenhouse gas emissions, slow down the global warming process, the progressive process of adverse climate change, and reduce the risk of future weather anomalies and natural disasters (e.g. drought arable fields, forest fires) and thus protect the biodiversity of natural ecosystems and ecological balance in nature.

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Dariusz Prokopowicz

Social soliditary is key! We must keep up faith, collective responsibility, and collaborative efforts.

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We need to learn about the mess we have done earlier and how nature has made up the mess while we were not allowed to go outside. On top of that we have to become good human beings for that.

Many of the behaviours that were common before the COVID-19 outbreak will likely return. But the consumer demand for sustainable products and services will notably increase. If anything, the short-term impact of COVID-19 has proven there is little wiggle room for escape.