Corona virus social-media snapshot from around April 15

(recording this here as it was posted by a friend on Facebook to capture the chaos of the 'information' right now)

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It's clear as mud! 

Clear as a Biden speech! 

Clear as the space between Trump's ears!

The Covid19 Coronavirus Rules:

(Subject to change with USA Presidential Agenda and/or the Conspiracy Theorists Bright Ideas)

1. Basically, you can't leave the house for any reason, but if you have to, then you can.

2. Masks are useless, but maybe you have to wear one, it can save you, it is useless, but maybe it is mandatory as well.

3. Stores are closed, except those that are open.

4. You should not go to hospitals unless you have to go there. Same applies to doctors, you should only go there in case of emergency, provided you are not too sick.

5. This virus is deadly but still not too scary, except that sometimes it actually leads to a global disaster.

6. Gloves won't help, but they can still help.

7. Everyone needs to stay HOME, but it's important to GO OUT.

8. There is no shortage of groceries in the supermarket, but there are many things missing when you go there in the evening, but not in the morning. Sometimes.

9. The virus has no effect on children except those it affects.

10. Animals are not affected, but there is still a cat that tested positive in Belgium in February when no one had been tested, plus a few tigers here and there…

11. You will have many symptoms when you are sick, but you can also get sick without symptoms, have symptoms without being sick, or be contagious without having symptoms. Oh, my..

12. In order not to get sick, you have to eat well and exercise, but eat whatever you have on hand and it's better not to go out, well, but no…

13. It's better to get some fresh air, but you get looked at very wrong when you get some fresh air, and most importantly, you don't go to parks or walk. But don’t sit down, except that you can do that now if you are old, but not for too long or if you are pregnant (but not too old).

14. You can't go to retirement homes, but you have to take care of the elderly and bring food and medication.

15. If you are sick, you can't go out, but you can go to the pharmacy.

16. You can get restaurant food delivered to the house, which may have been prepared by people who didn't wear masks or gloves. But you have to have your groceries decontaminated outside for 3 hours. Pizza too?

17. Every disturbing article or disturbing interview starts with " I don't want to trigger panic, but…"

18. You can't see your older mother or grandmother, but you can take a taxi and meet an older taxi driver.

19. You can walk around with a friend but not with your family if they don't live under the same roof.

20. You are safe if you maintain the appropriate social distance, but you can’t go out with friends or strangers at the safe social distance.

21. The virus remains active on different surfaces for two hours, no, four, no, six, no, we didn't say hours, maybe days? But it takes a damp environment. Oh no, not necessarily.

22. The virus stays in the air - well no, or yes, maybe, especially in a closed room, in one hour a sick person can infect ten, so if it falls, all our children were already infected at school before it was closed. But remember, if you stay at the recommended social distance, however in certain circumstances you should maintain a greater distance, which, studies show, the virus can travel further, maybe.

23. We count the number of deaths but we don't know how many people are infected as we have only tested so far those who were "almost dead" to find out if that's what they will die of…

24. We have no treatment, except that there may be one that apparently is not dangerous unless you take too much (which is the case with all medications).

25. We should stay locked up until the virus disappears, but it will only disappear if we achieve collective immunity, so when it circulates… but we must no longer be locked up for that?

FBstatus Nov 10 2013: why creative people are "different"

(This was really weird to read -- because having these things described as 'foreign' to 'normal humans' was diosconcerting.  Kinda' like my ongoing irritation with people who consider me capable of hyper-focus: I am reasonably convinced that all humans can focus adequately, but that many of us get broken while we are developing and then can't ... which makes those of us who can look 'weird' or 'specially capable' ... when really, I am just healthy in some places most Americans (at least) don't seem to be nowadays [and broken in different ones, that display differently].  What I actually said on Fb was this:)

Oh.
This explains (by derivation) why other people act (and don't act) the way they do. Huh. An interesting mirror on 'normal' ...

Thanks, Irene :).

http://www.matthewschuler.co/why-creative-people-sometimes-make-no-sense/

Comments: 

Me:  What is most funny to me, the longer I sit with this, is how I don't experience the distinctions, and certainly not the 'opposites'-ness, of these terms as the author implies humans "do"(/so firmly "should" in their head that they cannot make the distinction between their prejudice and a more variable reality). 

As a person with a massive and exquisitely (painfully, most would say ) precise vocabulary, I recognize the rhetorical 'correctness' of the conceptual assertions, and the derivative assertions of opposite-ness. But the dictionary meanings have so little to do with how these attributes actually manifest in actual thought-life, psychological-life, emotional-life ... I rarely experience any sense (as it's implied most people do?) of conflict between the impetuses listed. They are all ways of looking at problems, they each add their own true-being, colors, forms, rhythms* to the eventual answers. 

Perhaps what is upsetting to others is the dynamic nature of the multi-dimensional balance/center that I (and apparently other "creative" people) maintain? It is true that pieces are always in motion -- that motion is a fundamental, and something that therefore must necessarily be perceived as beautiful and life-giving -- in my personal development and in my perception of what is required for local/global/universal development. Preferentially static thinkers and people who prefer or need intellectual stability or security don't prefer to hang out with me, for sure ...  

I have always been of the opinion that creativity -- even deep creativity -- is inherent to human nature, but that many of us are so injured we cannot access it. Certainly for many years I was.
 
Thoughts? 


Me:  * my attempt to explore thought-life in 1D, 2D, 3D, and 4D

CH:   Csikszentmihalyi is awesome! I am a huge fan of his thinking around human behavior....

Me:   [CH]: well, I'll have to read more of him, then. Any particularly recommended books/articles (with the caveat that I don't have access to an academic library, only the Portland library system, for the nonce)?

CH:  If you message me a viable email account, I can email you articles. I am reading Csikszentmihalyi's "Flow" right now, and I found it in Barnes and Noble...

Me:  on it

KJ:  (As with everything, I find...)It is a matter of perspective. I think that artists (and scientists and philosophers) are granted this magical power of holding two seemingly contradictory aspects in conceptual agreement. It could be said to be a fundamental flexibility of those disciplines, but I too believe all people can and should exercise this capacity. Call it creativity, imagination, what have you; it is an function of any working brain/body.

KJ:  That said, some brains -i.e. those of "creative types"- are more adept, by way of practice and some might say obsessional fixation, at this way of perceiving and functioning, that it may affect a zone of discomfiture with those other people unused to splashing about in the shifting miasma of chemical contradictions we call consciousness.

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