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Building a Better Post-COVID World

Jun 12, 2020 Mohamed ElBaradei

If the COVID-19 pandemic has made one thing clear, it is that we are one human family. Only by recognizing this – by taking care of one another, as well as the planet on which we all depend – can any of us hope for a better future.

VIENNA – In a matter of months, the COVID-19 pandemic has transformed the world almost beyond recognition. And yet the international cooperation that is so essential to confront a shared threat has been nowhere to be found. This should not be a surprise: our failure to respond effectively to the COVID-19 crisis reflects deeply entrenched – and severely skewed – values and priorities.

In 1952, the American statesman Adlai Stevenson declared: “The great enemies of man are war, poverty, and tyranny, and their assaults on human dignity, which are the most grievous consequences of each.” Nearly seven decades later, those enemies remain as powerful as ever.

War continues to dominate – and disrupt – the human timeline. Despite the horrors we have collectively experienced, violence remains our default response to differences. Three decades after the end of the Cold War, nuclear weapons – and the terrifying doctrine of mutual assured destruction – remain a pillar of global security.

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US President-elect Joe Biden may have promised a “return to normalcy,” but the truth is that there is no going back. The world is changing in fundamental ways, and the actions the world takes in the next few years will be critical to lay the groundwork for a sustainable, secure, and prosperous future.

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Robert Wolff Jun 16, 2020

On the failure of rationalism and the rise of emotionalism in politics:

Identity politics plays our predictable emotional responses. Each separate identity group has different emotional responses to any and every government policy, depending on its special self-interests.

In the current hypercompetitive political-economic-social environment political parties are evoking strong negative emotions in their opponents and strong positive emotions in their constituent identity groups, rather than rational cognitive responses.

If our Leaders continue to incite emotions rather than rational reasoning because they so starkly disagree on policy then Democracy, which is based on the ideal of creating consensus among US institutions and identity groups, is a 'Dead Duck'.

We are deep into a 'Leadership Crisis' that cannot be resolved unless social, institutional and political leaders "agree to agree" and dedicate themselves to resolving their own disputes among themselves. Until then, social upheaval across America will be the tune of the day, caused primarily by emotional incantations from our incongruous leadership class.
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Elizabeth Pula Jun 15, 2020

Reality FLASH: Post COVID a verbal pictoral of a bit of the agricultural industry in the US:

"U.S.: 93% of family farms have shuttered since the 1970s. Yet, overall dairy production in the U.S. continues to rise due to new or expanding mega-dairies. These are often funded by outside investors and propped up by a number of Farm Bill programmes. The lack of environmental enforcement, particularly of their GHG emissions, further abets mega-dairies."

So for anybody that is thinking wishful thinking thoughts that a quick bank-aid pulls off to leave a nice, quick "V" recovery as anywhere near real, sure won't happen in the agricultural industry of the US, for anybody living in the US. Although there's a lot of product that gets shipped off shore, a lot of US production does NOT affect anybody still breathing in the US. Even if the GDP number still looked good, most of the GDP goes offshore. That's real work effort that goes bye bye. None of the money flows contribute to anything that still exists in the US, especially to any of the real living color Post-COVID survivors. Off into the wild blue yonder, as all workers around the globe keep experiencing the same narrative results. The message reeks loud and clear: your work efforts do not benefit you, and it doesn't benefit most of the people in the US either.

Snapshot 2020-
Foreground: A 93% drop in private ownership says a lot about what's left in the US for anybody living in the US to any access to any kind of sustainable small individual business activities. No jobs, +no land ownership= slaves owned by MNE's across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

Background: Gray tone- Variable is a few Hangers on for a bit longer, with a paid-up-roof-over-their-head through 2021.

https://www.iatp.org/milking-planet?utm_source=IATP+Full+List&utm_campaign=d9130892fe-MARCH_NEWS_18_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3f024f9ff8-d9130892fe-63628885
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Elizabeth Pula Jun 15, 2020

From the Echo chamber of the global peanut gallery, here's another more resounding "No". There is no visible building of a better post COVID World as evidenced by the real results on the real farmers that are attempting to still maintain herds of cattle, in this example, for producing milk around the world:
https://www.iatp.org/milking-planet?utm_source=IATP+Full+List&utm_campaign=d9130892fe-MARCH_NEWS_18_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3f024f9ff8-d9130892fe-63628885

I agree that the planet is getting milked by 13 MNE Dairy conglomerates, and a few other presently un-named corporate entities.

What a few 13 or so MNE entities are doing is not benefitting any of the real producers, including the real cows or the real people in real nations globally.

The results of the squeeze play by the 13 or so MNE's against the rest of the real producers and consumers, will only be inflationary price controls that do NOT benefit any of the real producers or consumers immediately, nor later.
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Elizabeth Pula Jun 15, 2020

Well, it would be nice if your ideation and progression were true. However, it looks to me like there has been no change at all. Any change has really been to the worse. Perhaps, any initial negative reactive proof is just a "growing" phase of global disruption to produce improvement?

Is there any real attempt in motion, action, or afloat to build a better post-COVD world?

Really, NO.

Really, WHY? Based on PH agency reporting, especially, because of the proof-of-work by the CDC.

In the US:

1. In the US: As evidenced by the fact that it is impossible to find, or see on the CDC website, since the COVID-19 event, absolutely no simple, honest and easy to read ONE simple numeric total with the most current "by-date" for "Total deaths due to COVID19 and only COVID19", as reported on death certificates in the US, to the only formal government data-agency of record, and by that same data-agency, which is/was/should-be-and-now-can-never-again-be, (also) the bottom-line most important source for honest, accurate and data integrity related to public health of citizens, and basic "numbers" to establish relative accuracy of data for any reports about the US population, just what does that tell you about a simple "number" and accountable, real results of the COVID 19, branded, global event build?

I know what that reality tells me. It sure is NOT any improvement about anything, especially at the source, where there should be specific improvement, especially for honesty of source data accessible to the general public, and general education.

2. Is it any wonder that any citizen can most definitely not trust and should, and needs-to-be totally suspicious, and totally distrusting of all leaders and institutions, especially in the post COVID World?

3. If it is not possible, and if there is apparently absolutely no will-to-even-try-or-attempt-to-improve any credible data, who is kidding who, especially as proved by narratives on PS, about any improvements post COVID in the world, anywhere?

4. Story time is just sharing fantasy and wishful thinking. Obviously the CDC is delivering a proof of non-work, which is that the real message is only stories of really total irrelevance and manipulation, every day, and every minute, that that one simple number is NOT reported honestly.

5. If there were any expectation that it is not normal to reinforce as normal accepting absolutely the worst levels of credibility, then perhaps there could, and would be some subsequent change to positive improvement to building a better Post COVID World. So, Mohamed why don't you and everybody else on PS start suggesting that tolerating abnormal tolerance is exceptionally abnormal and requires some immediate change by reporting and expecting reliable, data so some citizens can begin to regain totally lost trust. The one number that should have been a global known is a global unknown, do you wonder why that may be? The one number that should be available easily to everyone is not available easy, nor is that number reported clearly and specifically by any sites globally.

6. If the CDC cannot honestly divulge the most significant one number honestly, on a weekly, daily, or hourly basis, in black and white on the website, what does that really say about the entire COVID-19 event? As numbers play out globally, on different national Public Health websites, that one number is really what the citizens of their respective nations of the whole world wait for anxiously every day. Now, by obfuscating that one number, and not by just the CDC, just maybe the CDC, as just one representative website of PH national data, along with all the other so designated public data stakeholders-of-record, is just keeping the world afloat, a little while longer.

Or is it really suspended animation?

No wonder no real citizens anywhere are paying any attention.

No one's life really matters. No one can breath.

Even, and especially in the US, Everyone's last breath is "baited".
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