[Thespiritexpress] This in Today...

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…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~. 

~~~ w/Love, ~Ron 

Dear Neighbors:

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 Dell'Ara,  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.

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 pre existing conditions.    Fort Bragg lives matter! 

Today I received an email  from Mendocino County Supervisor,  Ted Williams, stating that there was no COVID 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.

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.

Our top scientists  are stressing the imperative of social distancing, mask wearing, hand washing, COVID 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.

But let me not continue to waste valuable time with blame.  COVID 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.

We shall either organize,  as a community of good cooperative  neighbors,  or we shall suffer mightily,  and many  of us will perish.

We can organize:

By cooperating fully with mask wearing, social distancing and hand washing.

We can help ourselves:

Since we do not have COVID testing we can  help ourselves by learning the early warning signs of COVID.

Temperature: above 99.6 F,   watch  temperature carefully and take temperature every few hours.  Above 100F call your doctor or go to a clinic.

Oxygen levels: below 90%.   The percentage of oxygen in the blood is measured by an Oximeter available in most drug stores for way under $50.  Buy one and use it. Below 90% call your doctor or go to a clinic.

Other symptoms: Familiarize yourself with other  COVID symptoms as if your life depended on it, because it does.
fatigue, 
dry cough,
body ache, 
loss of sense of smell, 
loss of breathe, 
running nose,  
congestion, 
loss of appetite,  
diarrhea.
(see google for more)

Of course many of these symptoms may be present and caused by other than COVID BUT WE MUST BE WATCHFUL.

We can socialize:

We can family and friends more than you usually do. Use our  phones and computers for  Skype, Zoom, Facetime, etc.
Human connection is excellent medicine.

We can build immunity:

1-Attend: to the fuel you ingest. Spend some of the  money you might spend,  in a restaurant,  on extra clean food, and treats.

2-Exercise:Walk,  hike, bike and sit, outdoors, with friends,  at social distances.

3-Rest:

4-Express gratitude: for that which  we do have.

5-Help: someone less fortunate.

6-Code orange: Alcohol  hinders rather than builds, the immune system.

7-Visit  our Pacific Ocean and breathe  in the oxygen rich ocean air.

8-Visit  our oxygen rich wooded areas.

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.

10-Visit the humane society and wear our masks.

11-Evidence suggests we might benefit from  vitamins C and D along with Zinc.

12-We can find it in ourselves to be extra kind 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.

Your neighbor,

Richard
Richard Louis Miller, M.A., Ph.D.
Clinical Psychology
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