First……..The way we must live today seems akin to the way we lived during WWII. Those memories, those fears, that everyday-in your lap reality of washing then flattening every empty can so we would have enough metal to build what was needed; rolling up bandages, making Q-Tips for the soldiers; everyone’s Victory Garden so we could all eat: Air-Raid drills, rationing. . . . never much yet always just enough. We helped each other, and we’re doing it again now.
Coronavirus-19 is New
Because it is new, no one really knows how to handle it. Already there is a mutation running around, as well as the original. More challenges.
Prediction Specifics
Back in 1981, Sylvia Browne (a famous psychic) wrote a book called END OF DAYS. In that book she predicted:
“In around 2020 a severe pneumonia-like illness will spread throughout the globe, attacking the lungs and the bronchial tubes, and resisting all known treatments. Almost more baffling than the illness itself will be the fact that it will suddenly vanish as quickly as it arrived, attack again ten years later, and then disappear completely.”
WHY IS THIS A BIG DEAL?
It has to do with RNA sequencing, i.e. genetics.
Seasonal flu is an “all human virus.” The DNA/RNA chains that make up the virus are recognized by the human immune system. This means that your body has some immunity to it before it comes around each year - you get immunity two ways: through exposure to a virus, or by getting a flu shot.
Novel viruses come from animals. The WHO tracks novel viruses in animals (sometimes for years watching for mutations). Usually these viruses only transfer from animal to animal (pigs in the case of H1N1) (birds in the case of the Spanish flu). But once, one of these animal viruses mutates, and starts to transfer from animals to humans - then it’s a problem. Why? Because we have no natural or acquired immunity. The RNA sequencing of the genes inside the virus isn’t human, and the human immune system doesn’t recognize it, so, we can’t fight it off.
Now. . . sometimes, the mutation only allows transfer from animal to human, for years it’s only transmission is from an infected animal to a human before it finally mutates so that it can now transfer human to human. Once that happens, we have a new contagion phase. And depending on the fashion of this new mutation, that’s what decides how contagious, or how deadly it’s gonna be.
H1N1 was deadly - but it did not mutate in a way that was as deadly as the Spanish flu. It’s RNA was slower to mutate and it attacked its host differently, too. Fast forward.
Now, here comes this Coronavirus. It existed in animals only, for nobody knows how long. But one day, at an animal market in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, it mutated and made the jump from animal to people. At first, only animals could give it to a person. But here is the scary part. In just TWO WEEKS it mutated again and gained the ability to jump from human to human. Scientists call this quick ability, “slippery.”
This Coronavirus, not being in any form a “human” virus (whereas we would all have some natural or acquired immunity), took off like a rocket. And this was because, humans have no known immunity. . . doctors have no known medicines for it.
And it just so happens that this particular mutated animal virus, changed itself in such a way that it causes great damage to human lungs. That’s why Coronavirus is different from seasonal flu, or H1N1, or any other type of influenza. This one is slippery AF. And it’s a lung eater. And, it’s already mutated AGAIN, so that we now have two strains to deal with, strain S and strain L, which makes it twice as hard to develop a vaccine.
We really have no tools in our shed with this. History has shown that fast and immediate closings of public places has helped in past pandemics. Philadelphia and Baltimore were reluctant to close events in 1918, and they were the hardest hit in the U.S. during the Spanish Flu.
Factoid: Henry VIII stayed in his room and allowed no one near him, ‘til the Black Plague passed. (Honestly, I understand him so much better now.) Just like us, he had no tools in this shed, except social isolation. And let me end by saying, if it mutates again (and it will, who’s to say what it will do next. Be smart folks.
This to my friend, Linda: “Sunlight is a disinfectant. The same UV that gives you a sunburn was proven during the flu outbreak of 1918 to be useful: (Getting patients out in the sun was safer that crowding them together in hospitals, as the number of cases skyrocketed: weather permitting).”
One Man Came Forward and Said:
“The virus is the medicine.” And he may be right. Look at what’s happening in Italy, hard-hit as they have been. Apartment dwellers are opening up their windows and singing to each other. So many have joined in that music now echos throughout cities, streets, and apartments. Some are playing paddle/ball games between open windows. In city after city, country after country, musical entertainment now floods forth from rooftops. Helpers are turning up everywhere - young and old - checking on others, helping where they can. Brewers are now making sanitizers; car manufacturers are making lung respirators. Hospital ships are now standing by at both coasts. Gyms, schools, hotels are volunteering space if and when hospitals get over-run. Our government has come forward with a stimulus package for hard-hit restaurants and small businesses, even for airliners. Yes, some of us have died from this “bug.” Countless many have lost their jobs, including a grandson of mine. It’s like The Great Depression just hit. . . . only this time the people, countless numbers, are coming forward to help wherever they can, as often as they can. The American Spirit is moving past clothes and liquors and sports and entertainment and drugs and the pressures of Wall Street, to rediscover what makes us all special. . . THE HUMAN SPIRIT. We have a chance to remake our society, our churches, our sense of the spiritual and what really matters. Let’s do it.
Second. . . . I have a blog.
The address is http://pmhatwater.blogspot.com. It’s been around for a while, and there’s quite a lot in it, mostly questions I try to answer, sometimes announcements are given. My next blog (to come out in early April) will concern a question Anna asked: “What if someone has been experiencing most of the aftereffects of a near-death experience, but has no memory of this wonderful ‘home’ we all go back to when we die? I actually lost consciousness during my accident and I don’t even know for how long. I woke up at the hospital, very happy for some reason, with a big smile on my face. This pickup almost killed me. Why was I so happy and calm?”
Anna got me to thinking. There really are clues that may help one’s memory of why they are now so different yet they don’t recall any specific reason for that difference. I’ll cover part of Anna’s question here. Wait three weeks for the full question to be covered (on my blog).
To find out if you are a near-death or near-death-like experiencer,
consider these questions:
Did you survive a life-threatening illness or accident or deep-seated fear “attack”?
Afterward, were you in some way decidedly different than before?
Have your family and friends noticed decided changes in you after the event, as well?
Do these “differences” grow with time?
Are the first three years the most challenging, as if you no longer fit the human race, much less your family?
No matter how wonderful the effect of the changes, are people around you “spooked” or somehow wary of you, like you’re no longer the same person they once knew?
Do you make or want to make radical changes soon after, or, more specifically years later, like seven to ten years later?
Do you divorce or move away or somehow turn your life around in what seems to be a way that can manifest not only change, but “miracles”?
Suddenly become more spiritual, rather than religious, and can develop a personal relationship with God or what you perceive as The One, The Creator, The Fullness of All That Exists (names can and often do change about this massively huge and important Being)? Can move the other way as well, convinced that there is no God and the whole thing was a joke of some kind (few go this way although there are some).
FOR BOTH OF THESE FRONTS
FEAR IS OFTEN A MAJOR FACTOR
I dealt with a huge fear-factor after my three near-death experiences and all three setbacks which occurred later that same year. It seemed as if I slid backward more times than I moved forward while trying to heal and make sense of my life. At the time I was reading the book, DUNE, by Frank Herbert. Early in the book is a litany of fear. That so captured even the very soul of me, that I grabbed onto that litany, somehow turned it around from what was actually in the book, and used it to not only deal with the fear in my life, but to actually dispel it. I’ve shared this litany before. Now’s the time to share it again.
Litany of Fear
Fear is the mind killer,
It is the little death.
I will face my fear,
It will pass over me,
Around me,
And through me.
And, when it is gone. . .
I will remain.
(this version by P. M. H. Atwater)
This is the time of The Great Shifting, a major flip of cycles occurring once every 25,920 years. No one alive today remembers the last one. So, be creative and make this one worth its living. On March 15, I gave the sermon at our Unity Church. The title: Who We Really Are. It was live-streamed on www.unitycharlottesville.org. Follow directions. ~PMH
