A roundup of articles on the status of the Coronavirus and ways we can help….
There are so many stories coming out now, we’ll need to post several roundups throughout the day….
Ways to Socialize and Build Community While Stuck at Home
Naoise O’Faoláin, Yes! Magazine, March 25, 2020
Staying social while social distancing can be a challenge, especially for folks who are naturally extroverted and crave lots of social interaction. However, just because we cannot be physically present in each other’s lives, that doesn’t mean we have to lose our sense of kinship and interdependence. Let’s get creative about the ways we generate feelings of connection and empathy. Here are four ways to socialize without leaving your room.
1. Virtual Pen Pals
They may be somewhat old-school, but banish the belief that emails belong in business-only-territory. Emails are especially good for keeping in contact with folks who don’t use Skype or FaceTime.
Besides that, email is a great contact option for symptomatic folks who find that talking aggravates their respiratory issues. The thoughtfulness that goes into writing a long letter creates more intimacy than texting, and there is something comforting about the semiformal structure and formatting.
Use this time to reach out to people you may have lost touch with, and extend an invitation to catch up. You may not have the thrill of waiting for an envelope through your letter box, but you’ll create the same fuzzy feeling—while saving on paper, too. Even just knowing that someone is thinking of you can meet some of your “quality time” needs, which is particularly important if that is your primary love language.
2. Get Nostalgic
Now is a great time to look through old photos and make photo collages/slideshows/video compilations to send to your friends. Make a playlist of your favorite nostalgia-inducing songs for each other. There may be a sadness or grief that comes with knowing that you can’t be together in person, but as anyone who has been in a long-distance relationship knows, a strange solace is to be found in mutual loneliness.
Engaging with old memories can help remind you of times when you were able to be physically affectionate and can get you excited about future plans and imagining the adventures you want to experience with your loved ones. Whether it’s toasting marshmallows over a campfire or blasting off to Mars on a time traveling, world-saving escapade, fantasizing and daydreaming are forms of intentional escapism that lift our spirits and encourage a sense of child-like wonder.
3. Join a Club
As a result of collective social distancing, many fitness/wellness classes can now be livestreamed straight to your living room. Signing up to these with friends and tracking your progress alongside each other can be a fun way to punctuate your daily routine. If virtual group movement/mediation is not your thing, plenty of self-guided art challenges floating around Instagram offer a similar sense of community.
Not only do these offer creative prompts and (often much-needed) motivation, they have the added feature of dedicated hashtags that enable you to find and interact with other people’s creations (and maybe find like-minded doodlers). Can’t find a club/group you like? Make your own! Schedule a virtual dance party or start a body-positive book club—whatever your heart is hungry for, I guarantee others out there want the same thing.
Besides that, many peer support groups are now available online, too. See whether your local organization is hosting remote sessions. What’s more, as organizations move to online facilitation, many groups that were previously limited to local participants are now open internationally. During this time, don’t be afraid to cast your net a little further afield and take advantage of the supports available.
4. Take Action
Being social means being socially conscious, and that is especially true during times of crisis. Showing solidarity with multiply marginalized folks might mean buying their art, doing their online grocery shop, or donating to their PayPal/GoFundMe directly. A great way to support local independent businesses that have been forced to close their doors is to purchase a gift card for future spending.
If you don’t have the disposable income, you can find plenty of other ways to get involved in community organizing: sign a petition, share mutual-aid networks on social media, tell your friends you’re proud of them.
Check on your disabled friend, your elderly neighbor, your mentally ill colleague—let them know that their lives matter, that they are loved and needed and wanted. That sense of being a part of something bigger can help ease feelings of separation and solitude, while ensuring that we are taking care of each other in the best ways we can.
Watch Resourceful Man Use Flying Drone to Walk His Dog During COVID-19 Lockdowns
Good News Network, Mar 23, 2020
A particularly resourceful dog owner in Cyprus has come up with an ingenious way of walking his pup while still staying inside during the COVID-19 shutdowns.
Vakis Demetriou posted a video to Facebook last week depicting his happy canine companion taking a stroll through the streets of Limassol with his leash carried by a flying drone.
Since Demetriou uploaded the video to social media last week, it has been viewed more than a million times.
The devoted dog dad hopes that his video will help to lift the spirits of internet users during the turbulence of the pandemic—and remind people to stay home until the virus is under control.
“Stay home safe,” he wrote, “but don’t forget your dog’s happiness…”
Look at what is on the wall at this high-level meeting of ID2020 employees. Anyone care to guess what you’re looking at?
From late 2019. Thanks to Tasha.
Use discernment.
‘ID2020 Alliance’ Will Combine Vaccinations & Implantable ID Microchips
Geoffrey Grider, Principia Scientific International,
Big Pharma is officially partnering with the tech industry to pair “immunization” with digital biometrics, meaning humans will soon be microchipped, tracked, and ultimately controlled through a global identification matrix.
For years we’ve been watching as Microsoft founder Bill Gates, now retired from the company he founded, use his billions to give ‘free vaccinations‘ to people in third world countries. Now Bill has become a founding partner in another company, this one is called the ID2020 Alliance, and its goal is to give every human being on Earth a digital id. How do they plan on accomplishing this feat? By combining mandatory vaccinations with implantable microchips. Genius, isn’t it? And coming soon to a theater near you, as the saying goes.
So now you know what Bill Gates and his wife Melinda were really doing over the past 10 years, travelling to third word countries and giving ‘free vaccinations’ to the poor, downtrodden natives. Those ‘free vaccinations‘ was research and a live testing lab to conduct the necessary experiments required to form ID2020.
And as you will see today, this unholy hybrid of vaccinations and implantable microchips is already happening in Bangladesh, soon it will be Boston. A page on the Gates Foundation website says that Bill and Melinda have so far invested over $2.5 billion dollars to this project, with no end in sight.
Can the man who put the world behind a personal computer now put a vaccination microchip digital ID into the global population? Bill Gates is absolutely positive he can, and indeed is well on his way to achieving that goal.
“Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.” 2 Thessalonians 2:3,4 (KJV)
We have been warning you about this for the past 10 years, and now it is happening. Are you ready for what comes next? I hope you are. Keep looking for that Blessed Hope, and thank God it comes before the time of Jacob’s trouble. If only my friend, Carl Sanders, the man who first revealed the inner-workings of the team that created the RFID microchip, had lived long enough to see this day.
Vaccines now being used to harvest biometric identities of everyone; Big Brother merges with Big Pharma
FROM NATURAL NEWS: The ID2020 Alliance, as it’s being called, is a digital identity program that aims to “leverage immunization” as a means of inserting tiny microchips into people’s bodies. In collaboration with the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations, also known as GAVI, the government of Bangladesh and various other “partners in government, academia, and humanitarian relief,” the ID2020 Alliance hopes to usher in this mark of the beast as a way to keep tabs on every human being living on Earth.
Similar to how cattle are marked with ear tags, this globalist alliance wants all humans to be “vaccinated” with digital tracking chips that will create a seamless monitoring system for the New World Order to manage the populations of the world with ease.
“WE ARE IMPLEMENTING A FORWARD-LOOKING APPROACH TO DIGITAL IDENTITY THAT GIVES INDIVIDUALS CONTROL OVER THEIR OWN PERSONAL INFORMATION, WHILE STILL BUILDING OFF EXISTING SYSTEMS AND PROGRAMS,” SAYS ANIR CHOWDHURY, A POLICY ADVISOR AT A2I, THE BANGLADESH GOVERNMENT’S “ACCESS TO INFORMATION PROGRAM.”
“The government of Bangladesh recognizes that the design of digital identity systems carries far-reaching implications for individuals’ access to services and livelihoods, and we are eager to pioneer this approach,” he adds.
While the ID2020 program’s testing grounds are primarily in the Third World, the group says it’s also now working with governments here in the United States to start microchipping people through vaccination.
IN AUSTIN, TEXAS, FOR EXAMPLE, THE HOMELESS POPULATION IS NOW BEING EXPLOITED AS A COLLECTIVE GUINEA PIG FOR ID2020’S MICROCHIP VACCINATION PROGRAM, WHICH THE GROUP CLAIMS WILL HELP TO “EMPOWER” HOMELESS PEOPLE BY SUPPOSEDLY GIVING THEM “CONTROL” OVER THEIR PERSONAL IDENTITY DATA.
“The City of Austin, ID2020, and several other partners are working together with homeless people and the service providers who engage with them to develop a blockchain-enabled digital identity platform called MyPass to empower homeless people with their own identity data,” writes Chris Burt for BiometricUpdate.com.
