Covid Adaptation I

If over the next weeks and months we seek and commit to adapting the way we live and learn we will be safer.

Building practical social infrastructure
People around the world have been rendered disorganised and controllable by government lockdown politics. But we must find ways of organising and developing new methods of doing things together and relating.

HomeSchooling training
Most of us didn't tool ourselves up for this, but there are lots of resources and opportunities to share, sharpen and design in this space. There will be a discontinuity to the academic rhythm this year, prepare for it and use it to glide our learning relationships into a better place and mitigate the humanity deficit of most online provision.

Diary
Keep a diary about every interaction you have with public authorities, about your own experiments and experiences. It will be vital reflective leaning personally and record.  e.g. In the UK, what are your schools telling you, what has your experience of 111, the GP , housing authorities and others been like?

Vitamin D
Yes, big doses.  It wont wash away racism or move you to a bigger house, but its cheap and there are lots of benefits to it.

Dietary Transformation
Hard but battling every comorbidity has multiple benefits and the biggest wars are in the head.  I am told that Type 2 Diabetes is possible to reverse, especially if you are early on. Obviously this is even harder with older people. eg. Substituting brown rice for white rice. Shifting from south asian diet to mediterranean one.

Improving cleaning regimes
Far UVC is showing promise in becoming a relatively safe anti covid light source. Indoor Air quality improvers and instrumentation are particularly advanced in Asian cities and quite available.

Compensating the imperilled.
Every cleaner, deliverer,  driver, child minder, carer and tenant should be accorded increasing pay ( decreasing rent) , rahmah , protection and respect.

Just distribution of adaptation load.
A lot of these things could end up increasing the load on women, but that should be preempted. In the sense of the most marginalised having the biggest adaptation load, this is sadly the truth, but it can be mitigated by creative collectivism which is what community-wide adaptation is and why point 1 is where it is.

Ummahspectral Adaptation through Covidtude

Looking the wrong way down the colonial gun barrel, we can report that .... STOP oPRESS, White Supremacy Capitalism is deadly. Some must unravel that story in statistically significant detail just so we might have good sport watching white wingers try to wash them away with recommendations of socially distanced cod liver oil wrestling.

Unsafe in the knowledge that public, private and academic authorities will look out for themselves, we find ourselves in even greater need of a distributed and autonomous ummahstructures of dialogical learning and transformation. It is hard with complex life load to keep our ears, minds and hands open to changing threats, possibilities and even basic information. But that needs to happen anyway so best commit.

Oh Knower of Subtleties, Truly Majestic, Fashioner of Form and Everlasting, raise the victims of this disaster, console the mourning and teach us.