Explaining the #Covid19 #Pandemic using your own car as if it was your body

Trying to understand something you’ve never experienced before can be a real challenge. In this post the #Covid19 #pandemic is explained using cars and traveling

 

Your body is your car – it’s your mode of transport in this life. We want to treat it well and insure it and ideally we want to be able to travel everywhere we can in it. But some bodies aren’t suited to off road or cold weather or sand storms. Some are quicker, some are slower. Some can carry heavy things, some are best for show. Some are fragile and need to be carefully tended to, to keep in good running order.

Covid is a car accident. When you’re in a Covid Car accident someone ALWAYS gets hurt at some level, some with minor injuries but most have severe and life-threatening injuries. Anytime there’s a Covidcident, many die

When a Covidcident occurs lots of hospital workers get on the scene to try to recover things. They are being asked to deal with multiple accidents every single day. It’s a tiring and overwhelming level of workload. And when there’s lots and lots of covidcidents to deal with, it risks the ability of the health system to respond to OTHER incidents – like a heart attack or severe car accident or workplace injury, because all the high speciality beds are getting taken up responding to covidcidents

Masks are like seat belts. Anytime you go somewhere you put one on. You don’t think you’re going to have an accident but with Covid, even a fleeting impact can lead to serious consequences. So you wear a mask-belt everywhere

Vaccines are like your airbags and abs and traction control. It’s a complex set of tools and once installed you forget all about them. But if you end up in a Covidcident the ABS tries to help you steer you away from harm, and traction control keeps you from snapping into harm, but if not, the airbag fires off quickly in response. That does NOT mean you will not get injured. It means you have a significantly better chance to MINIMISE the extent of your injuries and how long you might be in hospital if the covidcident is severe. It’s almost always severe.

The pandemic is a freeway pile-up in a blizzard or sand storm. More and more people drive right into it. Some will have stopped in time only to be run into from behind by others not paying enough attention and pushed into it or by those not slowing down to minimise risks at a time when driving conditions are really terrible. Lots and lots of people die and many have long lasting negative health impacts.

Anti-maskers are the idiots who ignore speed limits. Sooner or later we know how that turns out. Maybe they get a ticket first or maybe they end up in an accident. Remember, getting a ticket for speeding is ALWAYS a voluntary tax. And remember even if you are vaccinated you can still be infected and carry it to others. You’ll be mostly okay but others may not be. Wear your ‘mask-belt’

Anti-lockdown ‘freedumbers’ are those that say they have a right to get infected and to infect others. It’s all about I, I, I. There’s no ‘we’ or us’ in their thinking. They ignore the fact that Governments are supposed to do things that protect us from becoming recipients of the Darwin Awards. That’s why we have traffic lights, food health laws, fire brigades, police, ambulances and hospitals.  Just like we put up freeway barriers and road blocks to direct traffic until things are safe, we do all we can to ensure there’s no massive pile-up scale covidcident

Anti-vaxxers (the ones who COULD be vaccinated but refuse to) are the alcohol fuelled speeding idiots running red lights in the city during the day with pedestrians all around. They should be denied access to any public hospital for any purpose during the entirety of the pandemic because right now, health staff are more needed trying to save those who’ve been in a covidcident.

Governments that do not employ social distancing or financial support or mask wearing mandates or proper lockdowns to protect their citizens are riders on the 4 horses of the apocalypse. They should be made to stand in the middle of the freeway pile-up with their family and friends until the pile up is cleared away. If they don’t make it out of that pile up, that won’t be a bad thing

So we wear a mask-belt and get vaccinated to help protect us from harm in the event of a Covidcident. We use lockdowns to help get the roads clear again. We use social distancing to keep the spaces between our mode of transport safe for travel no matter how far we go. Under no circumstances do we want to see a pileup taking place and we don’t want to see any covidcidents involving your body

Stay safe people

Preparing for your future corporate strategy

Jul 15, 2010

A series of recent activities has me writing on the idea of ‘future strategy’ and how different organisations are approaching their future development. What is interesting is the strong sense that preparing for your potential future requires multiple paths forward, not a single ‘home run’. To that end I’ve recently considered sporting bodies and local…

Read More >

The Crisis of Capital

Jul 4, 2010

Stephen Downes is one the handful of bloggers I follow consistently. I do so because Downes (unlike many others unfortunately) like to write about his thinking AS WELL AS promoting the thinking of others, whether or not he agrees with them. In that way you get a solid collection of alternative views within his field…

Read More >

Catching Up on some ‘Light Reading’

Jun 27, 2010

Coming off what has been undoubtedly my busiest period (3 months) in the past decade, I’m in the throws of catching up on some light reading. I usually have at least two books on the go and my preference is for the books to be about diverse topics because it allows the mind to seek…

Read More >

Nanotechnology Moves from idea to Application

Jun 15, 2010

Every now and again you have an opportunity to listen to some rare insights to an industry sector. These opportunities are typically rare because the insights need to come from someone who not only ‘knows their stuff’, they need to be able to translate their knowledge in a way that the average person in the…

Read More >

Another side to the Super tax on Mining

Jun 7, 2010

The ‘Supertax’ debate is an interesting one and as expected, both parties are heavily invested in their own outcomes. One thing the Mining Companies understand is that the tax will lower the size of their profits in boom times for the resources sector – they’ll still be raking in billions, its just that some of…

Read More >

Design Thinking as a Competitive Advantage

May 3, 2010

As more organisations look to gain an understanding of how to both identify and prepare for their potential and desired futures, Design Thinking is on the current radar screen as a skill set likely to provide significant value. On the 25th to 27th of may you can attend a highly interactive and practical conference on…

Read More >

Surviving the Hoons

Apr 13, 2010

One of the current affairs TV programs did a story recently on the efforts by NSW police to crack down on ‘hoon’ drivers through a specific squad targeting them. The Victorian Police recently announced a similar project with the squad headed up by one of Victoria Police’s most effective senior officers, Inspector Bernie Rankin. Unusually…

Read More >

Hamilton Hoons and Five more die

Mar 28, 2010

Lewis Hamilton, the former automotive Formula One ‘number one’ had his car impounded on Friday night for alleged ‘hoon’ driving, having been spotted by police spinning his wheels at a busy intersection in St Kilda. Whilst many character witnesses have already jumped to his defence, with one interesting observation from Mark Webber suggesting we have…

Read More >

The Future of Australia’s Dairy Industry

Mar 9, 2010

Following on from the highly rated ‘Skimming the Cream’ forum in Brisbane on the 9th of February, members of the Young Dairy Network and SubTropical Dairy groups reconvened to consider the impacts of Climate Change on the dairy sector in Australia using the high-impact ‘Accelerated Scenarios process’. The ‘2030 Dairy Scenarios’ brought together the members…

Read More >

Thinking outside the cloud – a new tourism angle for Queensland

Feb 17, 2010

Queensland is one state that leverages its weather to the hilt – and the fact is the ‘Sunshine State’ earns its reputation. The odd thing is that in the past week I’ve spent in the Gold Coast experiencing the warm, humid and often wet weather it has occured to me that Queensland might be missing…

Read More >