Communicating with Sacred Animals by Leslie Cirinesi
Healing the earth
This is an extremely, unprecedented time in our history. I am sure that most of us are more than a bit unsettled with the current situation of the COVID-19 virus looming all over the world.
I was thinking that is unprecedented in our time and that no one has had to go through this before. However, the other day, my aunt posted that she remembers being quarantined during the polio outbreak in 1949. I read in Wikipedia, “The 1916 epidemic caused widespread panic and thousands fled the city to nearby mountain resorts; movie theaters were closed, meetings were canceled, public
gatherings were almost nonexistent. The children were warned not to drink from water fountains, and told to avoid amusement parks, swimming pools, and beaches.” I also read that if you had polio, the family was quarantined and a sign was placed on your door warning others of the plague within. Some of this sounds familiar, doesn’t it? Polio was a water transmitted disease, and it seemed like if you avoided stagnate water, you might be ok. But we are facing an airborne virus. This is more difficult to avoid. Well, even though it is not exactly the same, I think the fear level and the medical uncertainty is probably similar.
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It was a worldwide epidemic back then as well. The difference is that in the case of Polio, it was affecting mostly young children, whereas in the case of COVID-19, it is most dangerous to the elderly and those with medical issues. What we need right now is healing. We need to heal patients who are stricken with this virus; we need to heal the economy; we need to heal our emotions, and we need to heal the Earth. Many of the mandatory quarantines end between April 15th and April 30th. How ironic is it that Earth Day is April 22nd? Perhaps it is fate that we will be able to go outside and appreciate Mother Nature and the Earth during
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As I am sitting here at my computer writing this article, Michigan residents have less than 5 hours before they are forced to stay in their homes for the next 3 weeks and can only travel for necessary reasons. I don’t remember anything even close to this in my lifetime.
