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Disempowering Viral Violence

I am struggling to avoid that "I told you so" mean and self-congratulatory voice. I do feel under-appreciated but I don't feel any happiness about the Virus as vindicator of my beliefs about the political and economic power of public health and safety platforms, which are also personal wealth and fundamental security authentic democratic health empowerment agendas. Yesterday I went to Aldis. I expected no hand sanitizer but I did not have a clue why the half-row of steel display racks was as vacant of toilet paper as health clinics were full to over-stuffed with people not suffering from diarrhea. I expected the atmosphere and congestion to remind me of grocery shopping the afternoon before a snow storm. Our mostly polite congestion was familiar but our mutually quarantined atmosphere of anxiety about touching about breathing about coughing and don't even think about sneezing! was alarming. I found myself singing old hymns mostly under my breath,. Day By Day and with each passing moment strength I find to live for Earth each day... Moment by Moment I'm touched by Earth's care... Somehow, I Will Survive didn't come to my tight throat or lungs. I expected NPR to be non-stop Virus stories but I did not expect the powerful multifaceted analysis of WhiteHouse sacrificing democratic public health to the false idols of capital marketed denial and greed and partisan economic competitions overwhelming public health cooperative discernment empowerment enlightenment about who we are at our best and what multicultural resilience we could most virally achieve together as a patriotic/matriotic planet tomorrow. Our themes for dialogue are suddenly about how to avoid panic terror despair. I have known chronic threats of panic terror and despair since I realized I was homo in a hetero-dominant culture, since I realized that "climate change" is an economic and politically calculated euphemism for a global crisis climate of disease, for public health degeneration, for macro-economic divestment destruction dissonance disaster win/lose competitions trumping healthy win/win democratic cooperative ownership and administration and facilitation and restorative justice mediation meditation multicultural medication. I notice that Wall Street, which has persistently ignored WhiteHouse ignorance about climate pathology as a public economic and political biological and neurological health-wealth disaster, has been remarkably responsive to WhiteHouse ignorance about this viral public health disaster. I notice more partisan bickering about who will pay the highest disempowering price for The Virus, But I still don't hear national partisan pundits learning any lessons regarding primal ecological theological relationship between healthy democracy and our basic human freedom longing for cooperatively wealthy trends empowered by intent to teach through compassionate communication, multicultures experiencing shared community, bicameral communion. To paraphrase Rev. Dr. M. L. King, Jr. Where there is climate injustice anywhere there is pathologically viral injustice threatening everywhere. If I were running for office as a Green Democrat I would not be running against Trump by vilifying his narcissistic absence of compassion for public health, I would run cooperatively engaging all people of good faith to embrace democratic passion for health wealthy Truth through ego- and eco-therapeutic Reconciliation, Restorative Justice, Climate Health, internal as external Which can be at least as virally WinWin contagious as WinLose competitions at grocery and drug stores and frighteningly unhealthy political parties of five or fifty or more.

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