Virtually everything our governments have done so far in the face of COVID-19 – lockdown, facemasks, vaccines – is disaster response. There is next to nothing happening to change the behaviours that got us here in the first place.
This project is dedicated to understanding and promoting the things we can change both personally and as a society to stop another pandemic happening or – in the event that we cannot avoid it – improve our resilience.
Who and Why?
My name is Rob Kay. I run a website agency (freedomonlineservices.com) and I’m a recording artist (robertmichaelkay.com). I was born near London, but since Brexit I live with my wife & son near Florence, Italy.
Prevent Another Corona was born in the early days of lockdown, as I watched what was happening to my 6-year old son. All of a sudden he couldn’t go to school; he wasn’t allowed outside for more than a few moments a day; he couldn’t see or play with his friends.
I kept asking myself the same question: What in the hell have we done to the world to make this the reality our kids live in?
To answer this question and hopefully reverse some of the damage done, I will work on a twitter channel, blog posts and podcasts. Through my attempts to see the wood for the trees, I hope others will be able to too.
Right now it’s just me and my wife, Alison (ancestralkitchen.com). I have podcast guests and Q&As planned with people who I think may be able to help answer important questions.
What and How
At the time of writing I’m trying to develop a statement of principles to run this project by. So far I have the following:
- The solutions I am concerned with are ones that will address root causes and therefore prevent future deaths/hospitalizations/lockdown/distancing. With this focus, I do not consider facemasks or vaccines a solution. That is not to say that I am opposed to them. But enough energy is being devoted to them already – we need to work on longer term solid solutions.
- We need to identify the environmental causes of pandemic infectious disease and create change in individuals and businesses as well as and government policies that combat them.
- We must look at public health from a completely new perspective. Specifically, we need to get curious about those who have achieved above ‘normal’ health and find out how they did it. We also need to learn from those who have healed themselves from diseases like diabetes, auto-immune conditions and cancer. There are thousands of people who have achieved such feats. This information is freely available and our medical establishment, government policy and media coverage simply need to catch up with the latest science.
- We need to examine the link between our health and the environment. Food production and air pollution are two big topcs within this. When those two causes become united in the actions they call for, they become exponentially more powerful.
More than anything we need to forget political divisions of left and right, socialist, liberal, free market. From 2020 on they completely miss the point.
When we look after our bodies and the environment that supports them, we truly look after ourselves. Any changes made individually, in business or at a government policy level need to be judged by that measure. It is this, not a plastic mask or even an expensive vaccine, that will save the most lives.
There are reasons why this pandemic happened and if we address them, it will not happen again. Then our children and our children’s children will be able to play together the way children should.