Novel Coronavirus. How to Survie and Thrive. Body, Mind and Spirit

Earth Body Mind Spirit with Mike D Stokes

The website I was referring to in the episode is https://www.worldometers.info/

They have another page on the age distribution of Covid which is really helpful. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-sex-demographics/

Here is the transcription of the episode.

Hello, everyone, Mike Stokes Wildlife education. Today I'd like to talk about the corona virus. Obviously, everyone's thinking about it. And I think there's two things that are very important. There's a website. I don't think I have it in front of me. But it marks out the statistics of what's happening around the world, like how many people die from the flu last year, which was, I think, approximately 20,000. And how many people are more and how people die and all the different giant measures of what's happening on the macro scale and on planet earth today and the coronavirus is, in all probability statistically going to be negligible in its overall effect of death and illness on the planet relative to other things. Elon Musk has been chastised for saying that you're more likely to die in a car wreck than you are from Corona virus, but statistically, he's correct. So, as much as I think it's important to protect yourself, and to not give other people, rotavirus, especially elderly, there's wonderful statistic from that same website, which I'll try to post in the show notes, the website, and it showed the mortality rate for the corona virus from 00 to over 80. And basically, no there's been zero fatalities, if your infant up to nine years old and then it progressive goes up like a point 5% to 1% to 2% every decade. And then by the time you get into your 70s, it jumps dramatically to 7%. And then in your 80s, it jumps dramatically to 14%. So it is very dangerous disease for the elderly, not so dangerous for the young and healthy, and no danger at all for anyone under nine years old. Now, those kids can be vectors that bring it to people who are vulnerable, so you still want to be careful. So that's number one. And I think that underlines a a big issue that is very important if we're trying to thrive in a world filled with challenges and turmoil and problems. And that is that we are primarily emotional creatures as much as we like to think of ourselves as rational. That's just not who we are what we the emotional or emotional needs. Nature is what kept us thriving and surviving. All these years throughout evolution, we developed our emotional radar in order to help us survive. And it's very useful in a small band of humans or a, you know, a small band of chimpanzees, our closest relatives that are still living on the family species tree. But in these larger societies, emotional reactions can hinder us rather than help us. The biggest mistake that most people make around making decisions around things like the corona virus or others is that we believe ourselves to be rational. I have a close relative who is constantly harping on the idea of how to separate emotion from rationality. The problem is, is that he believes that he's irrational He is rational and not emotional in his decision making process. But, but he's not. Because he fundamentally doesn't accept the fact that mostly he's emotionally driven. So once you accept that you're emotionally driven in that your first response to the coronavirus is going to be an emotional one and not a rational one, then you can start to backtrack and be like, Okay, I'm reacting emotionally. So now what would actually be more of a rational approach? So the the instinct, the initial reaction is helpful when a cheetahs chasing you to get out of the way, but that initial reaction in a more measured approach doesn't really work. So, in essence