Comments by "" (@tekannon7803) on "Channel 4 News"
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Thank you Channel 4 News for showing to the world how insanely life-threatening and debilitating the Coronovirus is. To see these poor people having to literally start over from zero to get their strength back, their thoughts together and just to be able to walk again is staggering. It must be heartbreaking to go into the front lines and see exactly how devastatingly incapacitating this deadly virus is. What is hard to imagine is that we are being told that this is only the first wave of the epidemic. In Spain, we have learned that of a population of 47 million, 2,353,000 have been infected and 27, 459 people have died, giving us a 1.16% infection rate for the death toll. Still, at barely 1% of people succombing to the disease, it's madness to think economics is forcing politician's hands in getting people back to work, but we can't turn off the world forever. What we have to do is to realize that this is not going away any time soon and the most important thing to do is to avoid crowds.
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Richard Dawkins has done the world a favor and for people like myself who have struggled all my life to find out what I actually believe in, all I know is that from listening to Mr Dawkins and many of his illustrious colleagues, it has pushed me to find the tracks of my beliefs that were long ago vanished from the sands of my time in my mind. What I have always felt—or at least as long as I can remember—is that one reason I have never been able to put my life in another’s hands, or lead my life from another’s plan, or believe in someone other than myself is my extreme distrust in putting my fate in anyone or even in a spiritual master or master of the universe’s hands. It’s the most frightening thing I can think of and I have to say it’s because I’ve undoubtedly met so many people who turned out to be untrue, that it has made me into the person I am and—here’s my point on religion. I believe that the spiritual guides like Jesus, Mohammad and Buddha among others are there to help guide someone—and more power to you if you find that believing in Jesus for example, gives your life purpose. But I believe that religion’s spiritual guides were never meant to be holding one’s hand all the way through one’s entire existence. We all outgrow our teachers; otherwise, we’d never make anything of ourselves. And: when you have breathed your last breath and crossed over to the other side of life into death and the afterlife—whatever that turns out to be, you want to have made it on your own. I think we have to believe in ourselves to be whole and the goal of life is to stand on one’s two feet and face whatever comes at you. To go through your whole life reading dubious texts written by a thousand ghost-writers and having that be your roadmap to heaven is like letting a blind person take you by the hand to cross a busy intersection. It’s backwards. It’s an opinion, but I want to thank Mr Dawkins for provoking in my thoughts that have helped and are still helping me define what my purpose is in the world we live in. I firmly believe I’m right in relying only on myself and what I’ve constructed in my mind to define my life and what I’m here on Earth to do. But most of all, I wouldn’t want to make a judgement on somebody else’s belief system. Everyone should have the right to live their life and believe in the things they want to believe in; Richard Dawkins has helped humanity by undoing the knots and logjams that have accumulated throughout the centuries that have made our mindset rigid and locked in belief systems that have long since lived their day.
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Dear Prime Minister Johnson, Thank you and your fellow ministers for the very informative press conference for the British people. I am watching this videocast from Switzerland where the disease has made itself known for about two weeks. The authorities have closed the schools, etc. My message or suggestion to you is the following. Would it be prudent to set up ‘tent cities’ in key locations around your country where if there were a steep rise in people needing hospitalization, there would be ‘makeshift’ hospitals already set up with all of the necessary equipment, heating, cooling, medical supplies, operating rooms etc., ready to be used at a moment’s notice? There could be tents for the expected patients and medical staff already in place, food provisions, cooking facilities, sleeping quarters, recreational facilities, in short all of the things a hospital has. Now you have the time to do this and not be in emergency mode. It will probably not be necessary and it will be criticized as going overboard on precaution, but should you have to need even one ‘tent city’, it would save countless sleepless nights by overworked staff to set up the facilities in great haste and save your NHS system from burnout and put further people at risk of contacting the disease by having their immune systems taxed to the maximum. Good luck in your courageous work to save life.
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Thank you sir, for an excellent interview and thank you, Professor Devi Sridhar, for explaining things clearly and brilliantly analyzing the Covid-19 pandemic and pointing out what we can expect coming down the line. My question is about why you don’t think about helping your own people. What about your country, Professor Devi Sridhar? Have you ever thought of going back to India to help the Indian people? Imagine the knowledge and experience you could share with the people of India. The vast powerhouse of what you have learned from your time and studies and experiences in America and the UK could upgrade their health systems immensely. What about going back to India and help them get on their feet in the international arena and help them with your expert advice on the Covid-19 problem as well? It’s obvious you have top credentials, but India could use your expertise in so many, many ways. Imagine with what you’ve learned in America and the UK what you could do for women’s rights, equality, democracy, health care! You’re one of the best in your field, but why not help your home country while you are young and full of energy and goodwill? It's only an opinion about helping your brothers and sisters in one of the most beautiful countries in the world: India.
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Dear Prime Minister Johnson, I am not a British citizen, I live in a country next to Italy where there have been over 5 thousand deaths, but I would like to commend you on a very uplifting message that speaks to the human family. My country is on lock down. My suggestion to you is to have a virtual suggestion box that people could send ideas or things they have in mind that could make this 21 day shutdown leave your government with some plans when you reboot society. For myself, I think it would be good for people to take care of themselves, double the ration of fruit, read a lot, write their thoughts out if they are stressed. What I think you as head of the British Government must already know is that your country and every country is more vulnerable to attack from a hostile source than at any time in history. What I think this Coronovirus is in reality is a harbinger of what’s going to be coming at us in the next wave. What is important now is to head it off at the pass. What makes people more worried and therefore have their immune systems weakened than anything else? To be out of cash, broke, unable to buy things. What should be done is to guarantee all salaries, wages, pay packets, and I think you are ahead of me on that one. Lastly, it’s time to ask this question from an Anthony Robbins’ book. “What is good about this problem?” What can we do in this 3 week tunnel to come out on the other side in better shape? Would forgiving private debt be something that could be envisioned? Would using this 3 week time to solve the terrible eye-sore that stretches across the globe of homeless people be a good idea? Why don’t we ask the world’s greatest minds these kinds of questions and at least go back to civilized life with the eye-sores absent for once and for all. Lastly, lastly, would it be a good idea to have a drawing, painting, sculpture contest of sorts to ask every body who wants a crack at putting down something in paint or pencil or clay?
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