Take care of yourself - but make sure it is the right self!

 umanggargayan commented on The lockdown is NOT a way of beating this virus.

in response to Dr. Malcolm Kendrick:

12th April 2020 Several politicians, including Keir Starmer, the opposition Labour Party leader, have been demanding to know the exit strategy for the lockdown. “We should know what that exit strategy is, when the restrictions might be lifted and what the plan is for economic recovery to protect those who have been hardest hit,” he […]

https://umangblogs.wordpress.com/2020/08/27/psychological-resilience-in-current-circumstances/

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Taking care of yourself is key - but make sure it is the right self!

You could research other causes or cofactors of 1918 'flu'.

The assigning of threat and power to invisible enemies is the acceptance of identifying in self-lack. Self-lack takes care of itself by reinforcing itself under the defences and controls that lock down into narrative dictates. Because these are out of sync with the real world they have to be reset every so often... which means a contraction of participation in life as Consciousness to a 'lead role in a cage'.

As for exit strategy. The strategy is a pretext for the the cage of herd controls by which no way out is permitted, but mitigated 'privileges' can be conferred from 'not being given pain' to being the one who gives it or delivers other to it or supports those who do. Those who invest in such policies take care of themselves by directing pain of consequence away from them 'self' to others.

So while calm and clear is the basis for good decisions, the attempt to suppress a genuine disturbance operates the same patterning as that of suppressing dissent. But the form or presentation of the disturbance is usually framed in our already active interpretations as our perception-response in which no present evaluation of default judgements occurs.

Perhaps it is a disturbance that obliges us to walk out in wild places and feel all that we feel to the point of a shifted awareness that is itself the quality of peace or clarity of resolve that simply cannot be 'added' to or rebranded from the thinking that is trapped in its own dilemma.