Georgians: you need to know this, too about COVID-19. I initially sent this letter out to a mailing list. It is being re-published here. On 23 March 2020, Dr. Carlos del Rio, the executive associate dean for Emory at Grady Health System addressed the Georgia Municipal Association (GMA) with an online presentation. After the presentation the GMA recommended that all 538 cities in the state of Georgia declare public health care emergencies in an effort to tamp down the coronavirus pandemic. More about the effect of this online presentation will follow.
Relatedly, I am hearing more and more of “some” people acquiescing to “God is in control. ”Of course, God cannot not be in control! Double negative intended. Each of us is no more an emergent property of God than COVID-19. Science, too, is an emergent property of God. We ignore science at our own peril. We cannot be where God isn’t. We cannot experience what God isn’t.
Whenever I get a case of the bighead, arrogantly thinking I know God, I have only to look at this picture of but a very, very, very, very, very, very, very, …, very, very, very, very tiny portion of God, The Universe and my speck of a place in it, so as to shock myself into knowing, again, I haven’t a clue and then quickly get back to being humbled. I’ve no delusions about this.
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly, MLK, Jr.
Please, let’s all do our part, understanding that “the interrelated structure of reality” about which Martin Luther King, Jr., wrote, with profound wisdom, also means we can spread COVID-19 more than necessary precisely because we are part of the interrelated structure of reality—that is, God, The Universe.
MLK Jr.: “Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
Have you ever touched a spider’s web in only one spot, believing you would not disturb the whole web nor the spider?
Dr. Carlos del Rio’s COVID-19 Warning
In his online presentation, Dr. del Rio provided members of the GMA with documented information about the COVID-19 disease, and what leaders of Georgia’s more than 500 cities should do to protect their citizens. The presentation was sober awakening of the facts about the virus, how it started, and the implications of its spread on the lives of people not only in the state of Georgia, but all people elsewhere.
After watching the TV report, here is a link to Dr. del Rio’s Powerpoint presentation slides.
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