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by: HvdB July 13 2020

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The Old Normal! Who Wants To Go Back?

The Old Normal! Who Wants To Go Back?

Do you want to go back to our old polluting consuming society? I thought so! Probably your answer is "no"! What we learned from the past half-year is that if the urgent is strong enough, we can change 'our' habits very fast. It's like in a war situation. During the second world war, we changed the existing industry quickly in production lines, which benefitted us at that time the best. Innovations came faster than ever, and improvisation, and adjusting to new circumstances became the 'new but fortunate temporary normal.'

After the second world war, we had enormous economic growth, which lasted 30 years. Housing, general hygienic, education, health care food supplies, etc. improved. In the 70th appeared the report the 'Limits of Growth' from the Club of Rome, a group of people which consists of current and former heads of state, UN bureaucrats, high-level politicians, and government officials, diplomats, scientists, economists, and business leaders from around the globe. People, in general, got convinced that the growth we experienced after the second WW came at a cost.

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An enormous amount of initiatives have been taken from the moment the report got published to limit pollution in any form, unfortunately, with little effect. We never used so much fossil fuel, used resources at an unprecedented speed, and are pollution our ‘nest’ in such a way that recovery is hardly possible anymore. We needed probably another 'shock moment again! And it came with bird flu, swine fever, ebola, Q-fever(Netherlands), Mers, Sars and...COVID-19!

So COVID-19 came. We suddenly realized that less transport on the road, fewer flights, working and education at home, and less traveling brought many benefits for nature and humans: less air- and water pollution, no traffic jams, less stress.

Of course, it did come at a cost too. There was domestic violence, food security in a lot of countries is in decline, and companies went broke. Many people will suffer around the world because they will have a lack of food, and other vital issues like climate change and greening business got hardly any attention anymore in the media.

The Old Normal Came To An End: Welcome Humanity 2.0

With the experience and knowledge gained in the last half-year, many are convinced that the way society is organizing can be done differently; better! It is possible to travel less, commute less, work at home, pollute less, etc. Now we have to find a way so everybody can benefit from this experience. What about giving all people on this planet a basic income. Improve education with virtual reality, so if there are no human teachers, the 'virtual one' can replace humans. We have to take commerce out of healthcare and need to reorganize agriculture.

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Backyard food 'forest.'

Our politicians worldwide should have learned from COVID-19 that industrial farming is old fashion and only brings suffering for animals and humans. They should have been convinced that the production of unhealthy food costs society and healthcare billions. Our politicians should have learned that sports need to come back in education, and sports, in general, require the same promotion and financial support, which now goes to unhealthy practices.

But the most important lesson is that creating inequality between people and destroying nature worldwide is the worst 'quality' of the Old Normal, which needs to be avoided at all costs.

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Donald Trump on Wednesday repeated that he believes coronavirus will “go away,” despite his top public health expert warning that it could take most of 2021 or longer to get the pandemic under control and that it is “unlikely” the virus can ever be eradicated. At a White House briefing, the US president said of Covid-19: “It’s going away, it will go away, things go away. No question in my mind, sooner rather than later.”
Facebook has removed a post from Donald Trump’s page for spreading false information about the coronavirus, a first for the social company that has been harshly criticized for repeatedly allowing the president to break its content rules.
Michelle Obama has said she has been suffering from “low-grade depression,” prompted by the coronavirus pandemic, racial problems in the US, and what she describes as the “hypocrisy” of the Trump administration.
WHO surge team arrives in South Africa. The World Health Organization has deployed a “surge team” of 43 health experts to South Africa to help the country deal with the pandemic, which has seen nearly 530,000 cases confirmed in the country – the fifth-highest in the world – and 9,298 deaths.
In Australia, Victorian state premier Daniel Andrews has announced that 471 new coronavirus cases were confirmed overnight, along with eight new deaths. Both figures are lower than Wednesday’s, which marked Victoria’s most devastating day of Covid-19 cases and deaths, with a man in his 30s among 15 people who died overnight including many from aged care, and 725 new cases of the virus identified.
Global deaths pass 700,000. The coronavirus pandemic death toll passed 700,000 late on Wednesday, according to the Johns Hopkins University tracker, which relies on official government data. The US accounts for the highest portion of those deaths, with 157,690. The next worst-affected in terms of the number of lives lost in Brazil with 95,819.
A fire killed eight coronavirus patients at a hospital in western India early Thursday, fire officials said. Firefighters and 15 fire engines contained the fire to the intensive care unit at Shrey Hospital, and it was extinguished in half an hour. The cause of the fire at the hospital in the city of Ahmadabad was being investigated.
Amsterdam enforces face masks in crowded places. Amsterdam and the port of Rotterdam on Wednesday made face masks compulsory in some busy regions, including the Dutch capital’s Red Light district, as coronavirus infections showed a worrying spike. The new measures come as the number of infections doubled in a week in the country, where more than 55,000 people have now been infected, and some 6,150 have died.
Italy threatens to ban Ryanair for alleged virus rule-breaking. Italy’s national civil aviation authority has threatened to suspend Ryanair’s permit to fly in the country over suspected non-compliance with coronavirus safety rules, but the low-cost carrier denied flouting them.
France’s daily Covid-19 cases highest since the end of May. France’s daily Covid-19 infections reached the highest in more than two months on Wednesday, with 1,695 new cases. The seven-day moving average stood above the 1,300 thresholds for the first time since the end of April when the country was still in lockdown.
Covid-19 job losses see record numbers in the UK seeking temporary work. Record numbers of people in Britain are looking for temporary work as job losses across the country mount, according to recruitment firms that have been flooded with CVs.The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) and the accountancy firm KPMG said the number of people signing up to find temporary work rose in July at the fastest pace since records began in 1997.
Fears grow in Turkey as daily virus cases top 1,000. Officials have expressed concern over the rising number of coronavirus cases as the daily infection toll exceeded 1,000 for the second day in a row.
Florida tops 500,000 virus cases as testing resumes after the storm. The state has surpassed 500,000 coronavirus cases as testing ramps up following a temporary shutdown of some sites because of Tropical Storm Isaias.
Former Colombian president Uribe tests positive for coronavirus. Colombia’s former president Álvaro Uribe has tested positive for Covid-19, just a day after he was placed under house arrest as part of a witness tampering probe.
Germany adds Belgium’s virus-hit Antwerp to the quarantine list. Antwerp province was added to the list of coronavirus risk zones, requiring travelers arriving from the region to go into quarantine for 14 days unless they can produce a negative Covid-19 test.

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