Are you running from the corvid-19? Will corvid-19 kill everyone? Will corvid-19 kill you? Are you prepared to run?

I am going to die! Eventually.

Below I am going to present some facts about death and disease.

However, before we talk about that, I want you to think about something.

Pick a famous person like Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Aristotle, Napolean, or possibly one of your ancestors. Pick a person that died more than 100 years ago. However, you cannot pick Jesus Christ. You will see why in a bit. So choose your person. Now that you have your ancestor/famous person chosen imagine you bring them forward to today. Using some sort of Bill and Ted’s time-machine telephone booth. Amid this whole coronavirus(covid-19) hysteria. You have them hang out with you for a day. Think about the conversations you might have. Such things as; “where are all of the horses?”, “Where are the outhouses.”, “Where is the well or river where you get your water?”

Think about the other things you would explain to them. Explain to them you have never had to grow your own food, or make your own clothes. You don’t even know the people or the machines that it takes to get those things for you. You have never had to hunt to provide food for your family. Maybe you take them to a grocery store. What do you think they would think of a grocery store?

You could also explain that you have never known of a woman that died in childbirth. You had heard of one of two children that died before they were five, but it is infrequent. Most of the deaths you have knowledge of in your life are people that are old. Then ask them if they are hungry. Ask them, “what is the best food they have ever eaten?” Then take out your phone and call a place to have it delivered to you. If they ask you a question you don’t know, you pull out your phone and say, “Siri, what is the population of Spain.” or “Hey Google, how far is it to the moon?” and your phone responds back with the answer. They might ask you things like, “What country are you a King of?” And you say, “I’m a regular person most of my people I know live a similar life to me.” Maybe you take them to work or school and show them what you do and compare that with the ordinary person from their day.

After hanging out with you for a day, even in the midst of this crisis/hysteria, my question is, “How hard do you think it would be to convince them that this is not Heaven?” Especially when you compared it to a regular day in their life.

Now back to the facts about death and disease.

About 155,000 people die every day. Do you think the CDC and WHO are mixing the numbers of the already dying in with corvid-19 numbers?
See stats here http://bit.ly/GlobalDeathRate.
Here are some facts about deadly diseases
http://bit.ly/10DeadliestDiseases

There was a virus that killed up to 300 million people in the 20th century, and it was horrible and a horrible way to die. But it was stopped by 1976. Doing the math that averages up to 4 million people a year, until 1976, or up to 10,000 people a day. Who do you know that died from that disease? Do you know what the virus/disease was? See footnote #1

There was a flu virus in the 20th century that infected 27% of the population and killed between 17,000,000 and 100,000,000 people. The death rate was from 8,500,000 a year to 50,000,000 a year or on the low end 23,000 a day and possibly up to 137,000 people a day.

How does that compare to the biggest numbers you have seen with the coronavirus(corvid-19)?

Now for another perspective.

I have been doing some reading over the past year or so about how our brain functions. Several authors talk about how our brain is wired to identify threats. Jordan Peterson, Steven Pinker, James Clear, Charles Duhigg, Shawn Achor, Jonathan Haidt, and several others. All of these authors touch on the concept of the lizard/limbic brain and how it affects us in our modern society. Jordan Peterson talks about the part of the animal brain that has helped keep lobsters alive and reproduce for over 200 million years. He calls it the lizard brain; other authors refer to the reptilian brain or the limbic brain. We have this same limbic/lizard area in our brains, and that part of our brains is very efficient. It has helped keep our ancestors alive for hundreds of thousands of years. Our limbic brains are very good at seeing the saber-tooth tiger, the bear, or the snake that is trying to kill us. When was the last time you were chased by a bear? Identifying threats all happens in our limbic brains in milliseconds. Ideas reach this part of the brain much sooner that it reaches the conscious part of our brain. Our conscious part of our brain is what helps us a reason and speak. So even before we start to consciously realize what is happening, our limbic brain is cranking out chemicals and sending signals to our body. These signals are getting us ready to fight or flee. This limbic response we call “fear” is what has kept our ancestors alive for many generations. There is a problem created in our modern society. We are not faced with life or death situations regularly. So when our brain identifies a threat we are not used to, like the corvid-19, our limbic brain goes into over-drive. In the past. When there was a threat. We would have had to actually fight because we had a reason too. Reasons like; We would have needed to kill some animal to eat, Or the neighboring village was attacking us, and we were protecting ourselves, or families, and community. In these circumstances, we would have to be faster, work harder, and for longer than the already hard work, we were doing a regular basis. If the threat was too big or too dangerous to handle, we would have to take flight and flee faster and farther we had to in our ordinary hard life. During that process of fighting or flighting, the chemicals we would produce in our bodies would help overcome and calm down our brains after the natural fear response. In our world today, when our fear mechanisms get triggered. We don’t have to act immediately. Within a couple of seconds, our thinking brain kicks in, and we realize through reason and rational thought, we don’t have to fight or run. However, the fear chemicals have already flooded into our system and created an imbalance. The limbic brain continues to demand a response to balance the system. However, our limbic brain doesn’t do the thinking or talking; it just does the nudging. So people eat because eating triggers some of the chemicals that bring the body back into balance. The limbic system reacts with a response, “good job.” because it feels the brain coming back into balance. However, the intense physical response never comes. But another fear episode gets triggered, and we eat to set things in balance and get fat. Sadly, some turn to drugs legal and illegal in an attempt to bring the body back into balance. Another alternative to this imbalance in our brains is exercise.
In the book, Spark subtitled The New Science of Exercise and the Brain. by John Ratey, MD. He explains that aerobic exercise is good, but exercise that requires strength and balance is best. Maybe that’s why the cross-fitters are so ready to share their experience because they are feeling great with a new sense of balance they feel in their brains. In times of hysteria like now, where our fear response is triggered, our limbic brains kick into high gear. It starts feeding us the signal we need to do something, we need to be running! So after hearing, there is a shortage of something, we go to the store and buy toilet paper, water and onions in an attempt to balance our brains. So as we hide on our new cave of toilet paper and our brain chemicals start to come back into balance, our limbic brain is feeding us the signal we at least did something.

When when you feel the fear of corvid-19, maybe you should do what our ancestors did when they felt a threat. They ran. Perhaps you should just go outside and run, run like your life depended on it, run like your going to die if you don’t, run like you’ve never run before. Then see how you feel? I can only run like that for about 1 minute and 30 seconds. Usually at the end of my 30-minute aerobic workout. Maybe that is why I like to say I am addicted to exercise.

This is my challenge to you.

Go outside and give it a try. I’d like to know how you feel after you’ve run like your life depended on it and then came back into your house and hid from the covid-19.

If you want to stay safe, stop watching the news. If you’re going to watch the news be prepared to run! And then run like your life depended on it.

Let me know how your experience turns out?

footnote1 http://bit.ly/spFootnote1