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Corona Virus Culprit for

Selective Attention and Bypassing

By Yasmeen DahdahPublished 4 years ago 3 min read
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Corona virus gas mask | Pixabay

I'm sorry but why are we suddenly so interested in agents of disease? We would rather focus on a sensationalist story (of course because the media is amping it up) because it feeds on peoples' shadows, like OCD type and germophobic behaviour, fears and phobias, wariness of each other and projection. The virus essentially becomes a scapegoat for all of peoples' fear of dying. The frantic activity of buying supplies and toilet paper stems from the extreme anxiety in the face of other issues you can do nothing about, or indeed refuse to do anything about. The satisfaction received through quarantining people and probing them for answers cannot be ignored, in the midst of it we feel a sense of control and like something is being done. No matter what it is, what's being done about it is not something up to the segregation of people, cleaning your house 50 times, or stocking up for the apocalypse.

What CAN be done quickly gets pushed to the background, where we like it. We suppress the types of issues we can address every single day, and their true relevance in favour of sweeping stories featuring single agents. Contracted from nature or not, made in a lab or not, the point remains that why bother boosting your immunity when you can be given a vaccine? Why bother probing your diet for infectious agents when you can wear masks, and share videos and point fingers? Ignorance is truly bliss. Since the corona virus story, and indeed any other previous 'epidemic', many animal products have not ceased to pass on parasites and their eggs, have not ceased to infect brains, pass on toxic mercury and other heavy metals. Fake foods, processed grains and sugars, have not ceased to feed said infections or alter the gut microbiome, therefore inviting the growth of fungal agents and other imbalances in resident bacteria which are in fact connected with all so called psychiatric diseases and medical diagnoses alike. People have not ceased to die from these things, and indeed many others.

Parasites from poultry | Flickr

I have concluded that it is not just that these things are not shown on the media, or not as frequently spoken about between people. It is also our tendency to choose what we adhere to, based on our internal set of beliefs. We give selective attention to the things that already align with what we are doing, therefore justifying the continued behaviour or lack thereof. We choose to support things that confirm and support our view of reality at that time. It is a means by which we bypass the hard work of becoming aware of something, being uncomfortable by it, and moving into a space of shifting it and integrating our previous need for it. We would rather feel secure in our masks and antibacterial sprays, as if we are in fact doing something for the shady cobwebs of the collective human unconsciousness, than accept in any way our own responsibility in what we choose to engage with. We neglect our own agency in taking on mindset and behaviour shifts that are necessitated by true change, not just 2 month fear stints that lead to unnecessary demand, production, waste and ignorant behaviour which should not be characteristic of the medical establishment (should not being the key words, not is not).

And by that I mean that left and right quarantining of individuals, bans on travels from certain countries, or treatment of people coming from those countries shouldn't be as much of an embarrassment as it is. Here in Jordan, people arriving from Italy are being hurriedly herded to public hospitals and held down for weeks at a time. People coming in for observation or to ask about their colds are being told to go from hospital to hospital, changing hands from doctor to doctor, none of whom know what to do. What's the use of this behaviour exactly? What are we preventing? What are we doing? As always, the propaganda machine funnels fear into specific behaviours. Whether that is an economic boost through purchases, or increased reliance upon pharmaceuticals and medical practices, people fall right for it, setting the scene for the widespread relieved turning of oneself over to authorities that quite frankly should not be the authorities of anything. The greater good you say? The greater good is the release of the truth and the conquering of the global parasite.

Panic buying wiping out shelves of toilet paper and medical supplies | Getty Images

References

image 1 Pixabay

image 2 Flickr, Image from page 159 of "Diseases of poultry; their etiology, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention" (1915)

image 3 Getty Images, https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-what-to-buy-top-selling-items-2020-2

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Yasmeen Dahdah

I am a writer, Biologist and researcher raising awareness and offering alternatives for autoimmune and mental illness, women's health, nutrition and holistic treatment. I write on facebook at /yasmeen.dahdah

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