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The scary time continues. Many of us who have been social distancing and quarantined in our homes are starting to really lose our patience. States are starting to “ open up“ and there is in conjunction with good weather, a huge collective desire to bring things back to normal and to go back outside and try to get up lives back. However there still is not enough testing , nurses and doctors are wearing the same mask and gloves for weeks at a time and the numbers of new infections are still going up in many states .

So the numbers do not lie. The skies may be blue because of the reduced pollution and the weather might be nice but there are so many sick people and the numbers are still not going down!!

So the reality does not meet the fantasy. The nightmare is not over. Yes we all want the economy to rebound, however if people are continuing to get sick in the thousands and die in the thousands every day then we have a real problem on our hands.

I guess my message is to any readers is to not let your guard down and do not fall into the propaganda traps. Remember that you are really on your own to navigate this pandemic. There are lots of great news outlets out there that are doing their best to help you and you must really read them thoroughly and make your own decisions. The pandemic does not respond to propaganda and happy sounding Newsbytes.

Just remember that the virus is still being transmitted and it is still undetectable for at least up to two weeks in many individuals, so people are still carrying the virus and you may be infected by the virus. We also do not know much about this virus as far as how easily it is to be infected and how much of an infection will impact our ability to overcome the virus. We are still living in the dark -this is definitely not over yet and we must be vigilant . We cannot let our guard down at this time, otherwise it’s going to go back into the same deep problem and many lives will be lost.

Please feel free to use this as a flyer.

Exactly this day last year Isabelle and I were at the Shenks Ferry wild flower preserve. We admired the the Trilliums and the Bluebells and walked the paths in the beautiful balmy spring afternoon. Today in 2020 could not be more different! So the Sanguine Root blog is being interrupted. However this is a time to rise to the occasion and to deal with the situation using all of our assessments and knowledge from the past 10 years of writings and observations. Observing nature carefully has been very beneficial to our understanding of the current situation. Much of our focus has been with spring wildflowers and our blog posts have reflected this. We also do meditations of the fall and the various atmospheric qualities of that season. I have noticed that our blog has been much like a spring wildflower. Most of the posts are in the spring time and this is not intentional it is just how it has unfolded over the past decade.

But aside from this observation, let’s get down to business. We are facing a situation that is biological in nature, catastrophic, predictable, and most likely manageable in the larger picture. At this writing, on April 13, 2020, We as Humans, and our global ecosystems are in peril and flux. Loved ones are dying and the public health crisis is unbearable and may continue to worsen. The United States is particularly vulnerable to this crisis for a multitude of reasons. It would be great to explore these reasons but unfortunately it is too late now and we must focus on the immediate dangers we are all facing: strictly speaking, from a biological perspective this virus has been shown to infect others without any symptoms. So a person may have been infected with this virus and have no symptoms and be able to infect others unwittingly. Also it could take up to 14 days to feel symptoms. So that’s it dear readers. Let that sink in. This is what we are dealing with. At this point this may be old news for many of us, but I definitely know know

not for all. So please assume you have the Virus and you feel fine and hopefully will recover, but in the meantime please quarantine yourself. Let us as a society stop the deaths as quickly as possible-it can be done. There is so much more to discuss about this whole situation but first we must stop the spread and the unnecessary deaths.