Title: Dispatching the Dark Coronavirus Cloud
Plot: Don’t let darkness overtake you!
Notes:
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Full Transcript
I find the social dynamics of this Coronavirus panic fascinating. I did a podcast called Find Out Anything From Anyone Anytime and in that message I comment that the author of the book describes leading questions. That's a question that we ask using a particular tone that infers what kind of answer we want. And so bearing that in mind I will contrast two recent phone calls I've had about the Coronavirus.
On Friday, I hosted a work conference myself where I did an around the world Coronavirus status update. We had people from England, the United States, The Cheq republic, and India on the call. When I asked them to describe the situation in their respective countries or states, I used a positive tone. But I kicked the call off with the conditions in New York and Pennsylvania. Explaining that restaurants are only offering take out, that there is a noticeable dent in grocery store inventory, but the shelves are fine, and that the way to move to the front of the line or get out of a speeding ticket is simply to fake a good sneeze. Like Moses parting the Red Sea, everyone hearing the sneeze rushes out of your way, enabling you to go anywhere and do anything you like.
Then we did an around the world and each person described the conditions in their country or state. However, today, just three days later I was on a different call with different participants hosted by someone else. And the tone with which she opened it revealed that she wanted negative answers, which was exactly what she got. I abstained from speaking because I understood that being the ray of light on this phone call would backfire. This immediately cast a dark cloud that lasted for the next hour and I ran away from that call screaming.
The host of that particular call loves the news. I've warned her in the past that the news loves ratings. And so they will say whatever it takes, disregarding the harm it causes, in order to get them.
But this got me thinking. I would imagine that some people are overwhelmed by negativity and fear. And much of it has to do with the way that we ask questions. We fail to realize that our tone can create the leading conditions that will produce answers consistent with what we expect to hear. And so everyone gets locked into their own little world, not realizing that the answers they are getting are a function of the tone and words they use to ask questions. This enables each of us to convince ourselves of any view we like because whenever we ask questions, we get exactly the answer we were expecting.
Some people are calling the Coronavirus a pandemic. I looked up the definition of that word, and taking into consideration the context of its use lately, I was expecting to find out that word pandemic must mean shortage of toilet paper.
Because the statistics on this virus do not justify a pandemic. People aren't nearly as afraid of getting this virus as they are about running out of food. And so the virus we should worry about is the one called fear. JFK once said, "We have nothing to fear, but fear itself." And I think that sometimes we must remind ourselves of that.
A pandemic means a disease that is prevalent over a whole country or the world.
That's not what the Coronavirus is. I have a friend in India who sent me a link to a website that's tracking the Coronavirus over there. It would seem that out of a 1.4 billion people, that's billion with a "b" people, there ~520 have confirmed cases, there are 472 active cases meaning they're not sure if these people have it or not, and so far only nine people have died from it.
Ladies and genetlemen, I don't even need to pull out a calculator to tell you that that number is statistically insignificant. I doubt most calculators could even process dividing 9 deaths by 1.4 billion people.
And so I say, "So what that there are 4 or 5,000 cases worldwide?" There will be less deaths than the number of reported cases. And 4 or 5,000 cases in a world of 7 billion people is actually really good. There are more temperature related deaths every year than this. Meaning death by freezing or fire is far more likely than death by Coronavirus. In fact, it's difficult to find a statistic that Coronavirus is surpassing. And yet the whole world appears to have shut down over this. Do you know what that tells me? It tells me the world is either suffering from profiteering, which is people embracing the virus in exchange for sick pay, or days off from school. Or it's suffering from something far more serious than Coronavirus. Suggesting we might have a very serious irrational fear problem. And I blame the news for that. In their quest to get ratings, it would seem they don't mind driving corporations out of business, people into hiding, and putting a strain on the world food supply. I view this behavior as unconscionable and even wicked. The Book Matrix is not a news channel and for that I am grateful. I couldn't bear the level of despair and gloom that it presumably takes to compel people to tune in.
And so I end this podcast considering the good that has come from this Coronavirus scare. It would seem that whether by design or by accident we have discovered that the supply chain can withstand everyone rushing to supermarkets to buy food simultaneously everywhere in the world. That's amazing! We should not only be proud of that, we should be grateful. I can see the supply in our supermarkets bouncing back from the initial onslaught of purchasing. This ridiculous scare is also separating the wheat from the chaff. I recently heard a story about a man who walked into a restaurant in Utah and gave the owner a $1,500 check to help him through these difficult times. God bless that man and the others like him who aren't buckling under the weight of self fulfilling prophecies.
I did a podcast called the cure for depression. In that one I explain the harm associated with the power of negative beliefs. If you would like to be encouraged, I suggest you listen to that podcast because it very quickly establishes that we will experience what we expect to experience. And this is why I am committed to being a disruptor in the face of this propaganda that called a dark cloud over the world. I am dispatching that dark cloud. I command it to desist and disperse in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. We will not succumb to fairy tales and lies and irrational fears!
Make no mistake, the Coronavirus is your opportunity to distinguish yourself from everyone else by engaging in acts of kindness and generosity. And I would suggest that you turn off the news. I did that years ago and my blood pressure loves me for it. While most people were lured back in because of Coronavirus, I proved to myself that I can be entirely disconnected from the news only listening to sidebar conversations, and asking people directly for the updates I seek. Which carries the bonus of the lack of intensity in the horror of watching states and countries turning various shades of red to the antics of crisis actors paid for delivering ratings at the expense of it would seem, the entire world.
Ladies and gentlemen, I want you to look up, give a fist bump, and shout: Dark Coronavirus cloud, I command you to desist and disperse right now in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. And then just decide to believe that this is already over.
As always, thank you for listening! Have a brilliant week! And Y'all come back now! Ya here?
Podcasts mentioned in this episode
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