Quarantine Dispatch #1: #COVID19 is the Hand of Jesus

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I decided to take this time inside to be more productive. You should do the same.  I'm just going to chronicle my thoughts and ideas surrounding the quarantine. This pandemic is probably going to go down as a net positive through the lens of history. The Earth is getting a chance to reboot and it looks like nature is handling our inability to stabilize the population on our own. Now we're locked in together and being forced to deal with all of our cultural and social issues on the internet. Also, Joe Biden has dementia.  Remember kids: Washing your hands is for suckers. "The authors of the 1992 declaration feared that humanity was pushing Earth's ecosystems beyond their capacities to support the web of life. They described how we are fast approaching many of the limits of what the ­biosphere can tolerate ­without ­substantial and irreversible harm.The scientists pleaded that we stabilize the human population, describing how our large numbers—swelled by another 2 billion people since 1992, a 35 percent increase—exert stresses on Earth that can overwhelm other efforts to realize a sustainable future (Crist et al. 2017)." "We are jeopardizing our future by not reining in our intense but geographically and demographically uneven material consumption and by not perceiving continued rapid population growth as a primary driver behind many ecological and even societal threats (Crist et al. 2017)." https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/67/12/1026/4605229 CORONAVIRUS IS HAVING A MAJOR IMPACT ON THE ENVIRONMENT, WITH REDUCED CO2, BETTER AIR QUALITY AND ANIMALS ROAMING CITY STREETS https://www.newsweek.com/coronavirus-major-impact-environment-co2-air-quality-animals-1493812 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hswso/support