<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">…from our own Dr. Richard Miller ~~~~~~ I’m posting this for you as it is something new that may effect our community at large given the rise in tourism and the a big move back to Business as usual ~~~~~ It appears that some areas are reversing decisions to “loosen-up” and are considering (some have) dialing back to stage II~. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">~~~ w/Love, ~Ron <br class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);">Dear Neighbors:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);">I have lived here on the Mendocino coast since 1975. I love our community, the people and the environment. One of my happiest times was when, for 15 years, I, along with Mike <span id="m_-6611283705761274697m_-176038535474824338:f69.22" class="">Dell'Ara</span>, brought our community the radio program, Mind Body Health & Politics which some of you have listened to. I am now 81 years of age and it is with a heavy heart that I reach out to all of you, muy neighbors.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);">I am deeply concerned for my life and more so for the lives of those around me. I was brought up under the specter of the A bomb and we are living under the specter of a microbial bomb. Daily I think about about our most vulnerable population, the elderly. I also think about the young whose lives are hopefully ahead of them.I think of all those I know with <span id="m_-6611283705761274697m_-176038535474824338:f69.23" class="">pre</span> existing conditions. Fort Bragg lives matter! </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);">Today I received an email from Mendocino County Supervisor, Ted Williams, stating that there was no <span id="m_-6611283705761274697m_-176038535474824338:f69.24" class="">COVID</span> Testing, on the horizon,for our coastal community, , and it was difficult to digest. Sadly, I was not surprised. We are the richest country in the world, perhaps in history, and unfortunately, America's wealth is so concentrated, in the very few, that we "plain folks" are expendable. Every person of considerable means, in cities, whom I know, has been able to get tested, at will...some several times.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);">It gets worse. In psychology, we consider giving people a consistent double message, "crazy making". Giving people a double message, "do this and don't do this" creates internal cognitive dissonance. Tell a child to do something and not to do the same thing and eventually you create a disturbed child. We are getting a double message on a daily basis, from our government, and our scientists, which will effect our psyches, our health and our very lives.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);">Our top scientists are stressing the imperative of social distancing, mask wearing, hand washing, <span id="m_-6611283705761274697m_-176038535474824338:f69.25" class="">COVID</span> Testing and Contact Tracing. Our President and Vice President are actively opposed to mask wearing and social distancing and are not providing our country with Testing and Tracing. It is because of our President's policies that we do not have Testing and Tracing here on the coast.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);">But let me not continue to waste valuable time with blame. <span id="m_-6611283705761274697m_-176038535474824338:f69.26" class="">COVID</span> is coming and hell is coming with it. If we continue on the present path of passivity and denial we shall be over run like Texas, Florida, and others. As of this writing COVID is increasing in at least 30 states.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);">We shall either organize, as a community of good cooperative neighbors, or we shall suffer mightily, and many of us will perish.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);"><b class="">We can organize:</b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);">By cooperating fully with <b class="">mask wearing, social distancing and hand washing.</b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);"><b class="">We can help ourselves</b>:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);">Since we do not have <span id="m_-6611283705761274697m_-176038535474824338:f69.27" class="">COVID</span> testing we can help ourselves by learning the early warning signs of <span id="m_-6611283705761274697m_-176038535474824338:f69.28" class="">COVID</span>.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);"><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);"><b class="">Temperature:</b> above 99.6 F, watch temperature carefully and take temperature every few hours. Above 100F call your doctor or go to a clinic.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);"><b class="">Oxygen levels</b>: below 90%. The percentage of oxygen in the blood is measured by an<b class=""> <span id="m_-6611283705761274697m_-176038535474824338:f69.29" class="">Oximeter</span></b> available in most drug stores for way under $50. Buy one and use it. Below 90% call your doctor or go to a clinic.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);"><b class="">Other symptoms</b>: Familiarize yourself with other <span id="m_-6611283705761274697m_-176038535474824338:f69.30" class="">COVID</span> symptoms as if your life depended on it, because it does.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);">fatigue, </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);">dry cough,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);">body ache, </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);">loss of sense of smell, </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);">loss of breathe, </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);">running nose, </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);">congestion, </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);">loss of appetite, </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);">diarrhea.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);">(see google for more)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);">Of course many of these symptoms may be present and caused by other than <span id="m_-6611283705761274697m_-176038535474824338:f69.31" class="">COVID</span> BUT WE MUST BE WATCHFUL.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);"><b class="">We can socialize:</b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);"><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);">We can family and friends more than you usually do. Use our phones and computers for <span id="m_-6611283705761274697m_-176038535474824338:f69.32" class="">Skype</span>, Zoom, <span id="m_-6611283705761274697m_-176038535474824338:f69.33" class="">Facetime</span>, etc.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);">Human connection is excellent medicine.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);"><b class="">We can build immunity:</b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);"><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);">1-Attend: to the fuel you ingest. Spend some of the money you might spend, in a restaurant, on extra clean food, and treats.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);">2-Exercise:Walk, hike, bike and sit, outdoors, with friends, at social distances.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);">3-Rest:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);">4-Express gratitude: for that which we do have.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);">5-Help: someone less fortunate.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);">6-Code orange: Alcohol hinders rather than builds, the immune system.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);">7-Visit our Pacific Ocean and breathe in the oxygen rich ocean air.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);">8-Visit our oxygen rich wooded areas.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);">9-Even though we are behind masks we can say hello to those we pass on the street, on the trail and in stores. "Behind my mask I am smiling to say hello". Friendship is excellent medicine.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);">10-Visit the humane society and wear our masks.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);">11-Evidence suggests we might benefit from vitamins C and D along with Zinc.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);">12-We can find it in ourselves to be<b class=""> extra kind</b> to those around us. Take heed that isolation breeds cabin fever and cabin fever breeds irritability, annoyance and anger. Be Kind. Feeling kind is excellent medicine.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);">Your neighbor,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);">Richard</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(32, 18, 77);"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: x-small;" class="">Richard Louis Miller, M.A., <span id="m_-6611283705761274697m_-176038535474824338:f69.34" class="">Ph</span>.D.</span><br class=""></div><div class=""><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><span style="font-size: x-small;" class=""><font color="#20124d" face="georgia, serif" class=""></font></span><div style="text-align: left;" class=""><span style="font-size: x-small;" class=""><font color="#20124d" face="georgia, serif" class="">Clinical Psychology</font></span></div></div><div class=""><font size="1" color="#20124d" face="georgia, serif" class=""><span id="m_-6611283705761274697m_-176038535474824338:f69.35" class="">Wikipedia</span>: Dr Richard Louis Miller</font></div><div class=""><font size="1" color="#20124d" face="georgia, serif" class=""><span id="m_-6611283705761274697m_-176038535474824338:f69.36" class="">Wikipedia</span>: Wilbur Hot Springs</font></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(32, 18, 77); font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: x-small;" class=""><span id="m_-6611283705761274697m_-176038535474824338:f69.37" class=""><a href="http://PsychedelicMedicineBook.com" class="">PsychedelicMedicineBook</a></span><a href="http://PsychedelicMedicineBook.com" class="">.com</a></span><span style="color: rgb(32, 18, 77); font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: x-small;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(32, 18, 77); font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: x-small;" class=""><span id="m_-6611283705761274697m_-176038535474824338:f69.38" class=""><a href="http://MindBodyHealthPolitics.org" class="">MindBodyHealthPolitics</a></span><a href="http://MindBodyHealthPolitics.org" class="">.org</a></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>