Doesn't the crown press? Non-biological weapons against the biological threat of coronavirus
The whole world is agitated by uncertainty. How will we overcome the impending threat and when? How are we going to live on? The majority are worried, a few are looking forward to the transition to another world. A world in which they don't chase after a fatter hamburger, a comfortable chaise longue and more expensive for hours. A world that has some meaning. Or at least liberation from suffering …
People get on fast trains, but they themselves do not understand what they are looking for. Therefore, they do not know peace and rush to one side, then to the other … And all is in vain …
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, "The Little Prince"
The biological threat of coronavirus has made everyone in the world equal. Neither a palace with a high fence and a pond with ducks, nor an expensive ski resort, nor a foreign villa can hide from global danger. By locking us in our homes, the virus is forcing a general consolidation. To save life, to comprehend a new stage in the development of mankind. What is needed for this, besides self-isolation?
The whole world is agitated by uncertainty. How will we overcome the impending threat and when? How are we going to live on? The majority are worried, a few are looking forward to the transition to another world. A world in which they don't chase after a fatter hamburger, a comfortable chaise longue and more expensive for hours. A world that has some meaning. Or at least liberation from suffering.
The essence of the coronavirus
Viruses and cells have evolved together for a long time. The viruses that attack us are made from parts of our own cells. They can take over the nucleus of the cell because they are made of the same material.
Film "The Secret Life of a Cell"
All people on Earth strive to preserve themselves and enjoy life. Our desires and pleasure from their fulfillment are different and are conditioned by an innate set of properties. But the essence is the same - I am ready for anything, just to get what I want for myself. Greed is the foundation from which we grow into something more. We expand the priorities and range of our own pleasure or not.
If not, then they are able to parasitically use other people's resources for their own benefit, play on the feelings of another, devalue him, take out their anger on him, inflict pain, rob, just to move on and get what they want. Just like a virus that uses the resources of the cell to its advantage.
An insatiable desire to receive at the expense of others - in this we are similar to the virus. Maybe that's why he has a fake key to enter our cells and destroy them. Of course, there will be a vaccine, there will be immunity, and there will be a new, more sophisticated viral mutation.
The arms race between the cell and the virus has been going on for billions of years, but humans have an advantage that infectious agents do not have, because it is not a cell's resource, but human consciousness.
Socially responsible or "self-isolated from common sense"
In China, people deliberately approached life-saving quarantine: only 2,000 violators of the self-isolation regime were recorded per 70 million people of the population of Hubei province. In the muscle mentality of China, there is no sense of being a separate unit from all, there is a sense of a single "we". Therefore, tough administrative restrictions did not provoke public protest. It is necessary to save everyone - that means it is necessary!
Alexey Maslov, professor at the School of Oriental Studies at the Higher School of Economics, in an interview with Moskovsky Komsomolets noted that the “credit of confidence” system worked well in China. It is a government program that rewards law-abiding people and punishes those who threaten public safety. Quarantine violators have a damaged credit history, it will be difficult for them to buy tickets, and there may be problems with employment. In Hangzhou, photos of violators will hang on a virtual "board of shame" for a year. Become a threat to the common - you will be publicly ashamed.
The perception of the inhabitants of Western countries passes through the prism of the skin mentality. It is a chip of law and order embedded in the minds of people. But the era of consumption taught people to get everything from life, put this right of ours under the protection of the law. Therefore, it turned out to be difficult to immediately accept innovations limiting freedom in Europe and the United States. Thousands of victims of the coronavirus, fines of thousands of euros, and even several years in prison have clarified the conditions of social isolation.
The deadly relay race has come to us. The state is taking action. The people are indignant, looking for loopholes to violate the regulations. The mysterious Russian soul is always behind the flags. The law is not written to us. A unique urethral-muscular mentality, which originated in the endless steppe, has formed a different regulator in us. Not a ban from the outside, but shame and responsibility from within.
Children's playgrounds fenced with a ribbon are filled with children's screams, vouchers to Sochi have been sold out in connection with the "holidays", barbecues in parks with the whole family, walks along closed embankments - this is our social responsibility so far.
Psychological antibodies
Once the virus has been detected by the immune system, the level of immunity rises. The cells that produce the antibodies needed to fight this virus increase dramatically in numbers. Then they begin to produce more than five thousand antibodies per second, filling all our blood with them, the space between cells.
Film "The Secret Life of a Cell"
The relationship between people - the psychological space between us - is filled with either dislike for each other, or support, empathy, mutual assistance. The ability to feel another person, to feel the severity of his circumstances, his sensations, to be able to lighten his burden - these are the "antibodies" that are formed not in the biological, but in the mental space from person to person.
A person cannot keep himself alone. The events of recent months have clearly demonstrated to us that individual security does not exist. Only on the basis of consolidation can we pass the global test. If at least one country does not cope with the virus, the whole world will be covered with a wave of epidemic again. If at least one person continues to spit on everyone else, we will not swim out into a bright future. It is impossible to isolate oneself from others and be happy apart; one has to cooperate somehow.
From the outside it seems to us that no one in the world can come to an agreement even at such a difficult moment. Many EU countries have refused to help Italy with medicines at a critical time. Where is the support shoulder? It turns out, after all, it's every man for himself?
And if you narrow down the scale? Now, when everyone is sitting at home, are we able to support our loved ones in this critical situation? Those who were closer than two meters for a month of quarantine? Those from whom you can't stay late at work, in the park, in the gym, in the bar. In the current circumstances, it is no longer possible to hide the accumulated tension between husbands and wives, parents and children, brothers and sisters. Everything is at one point for an indefinite period.
The virus forces us to become safe for each other. Otherwise, we will die out not from the virus, but from mutual hatred. The antidote for dislike is a positive action towards another person. The more we do for another, the more we love him.
The biological threat of coronavirus is a chance to prove yourself in relation to another. To everyone who is near. When we sincerely engage in other people's lives, when we switch from worrying about ourselves to wanting to do better for someone else, then our external enemy becomes powerless in front of our consolidated strength.
What can I do for someone else? What can I give him when it's so hard and incomprehensible? Cheesecake, silence, dance, smile, peace, sun bunny, paper boat, heart-to-heart talk until morning, kiss, feeling of security, hope for a happy future …
By thinking about how to make other people happy, we weaken any external attack on us.
Take care of your loved ones and yourself. Loved ones are everyone who is at a distance of two meters from you. From ocean to ocean.
Yuri Burlan
