This current pandemic is certainly putting a spotlight on fear. The fear of getting ill even among those who are young and healthy. The fear of interacting with others who may give you the disease. The fear of going out in public. The fear of spreading the disease to loved ones. The fear of taking an experimental vaccine whose long term effects are unknown. The fear of not taking the vaccine. The fear that the world has been irrevocably changed and we have no control over it.
As author and medical intuitive Lori Wilson says: “Fear is either looking for company or looking for customers”. When people are fearful they look around for others who feel the same to keep them company. If everyone is afraid, somehow it’s not so bad. When fear is being spread, there is usually something that someone wants you to DO, or something someone wants you to BUY.
The best antidote to fear is education. In the case of the pandemic, seeking out independent, unbiased research, listening to scientists and medical practitioners who are speaking out, looking at the real numbers of cases etc. The point is not to “believe” one group or another. The point is to get more facts, ask questions and make your own judgements.
If “Ignorance is the parent of fear” (Herman Melville), let us present all available information and treatment options clearly to the global family and together we can choose what is best for the whole. Not what most benefits the few.
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