The GoodOne With Onomen Onomen Asikele

The Re-Imagining Series

A Series of short, insightful podcasts that seeks to force us to reimagine a world where the systems that undergird it were not as fixed and rigid as they seem but instead flux and moldable like palm trees in a storm.

Episode 1.

Welcome to another episode of the GoodOne with Onomen Asikele.

Today I will be introducing you to a new series that I aptly titled, the re-imagining series.

Its a series of short and what I hope will be insightful podcasts that seeks to force us to reimagine a world where the systems that undergirds it were not as fixed nor rigid as they seem, but instead, flux and moldable like palm trees in a storm

Reimagining Health & Well being

For the Ancient Greek, wealth of body and mind far outweighed the quest for material wealth and societal status. As a practical matter, the wealthiest and most noble in the society were regarded albeit erroneously as the more healthy of the populations in all of mind, spirit and body.

Fast forward a few thousand millennia and we have the underpinnings of today’s healthcare delivery systems being actively built in Renaissance Europe.

Replica models of which were later bundled and then re-introduced across the colonies as the yardstick for all of the research level work that has resulted in the discovery of the sophisticated slew of genetically engineered prophylactics, vaccines and therapeutics that abound today.

Global pandemics as the name implies, are plagues or highly contagious microbes that spread on a global scale.

Biogenetic engineering and research as impressive as it may seem, can only be an effective tool against the constantly evolving strains of these deadly microbes, when we pull our resources together to fight their spread, mutation and contagion.

The lessons we have learnt from the notable global pandemics, from as far back as the Spanish Flu of 1918 to the latest strain of the CoronaVirus; aptly called COVID-19, have to underscore a collective will and desire to stamp out their recurrence, spread and devastation left in their wake.

As has since been displayed by the hysteria laden, panic stricken and clearly ineffective global response to Covid-19, competing standards and approach to a global pandemic response should be discouraged and effectively put to rest.

The statistics have all but been dismal. Appalling images of military trucks, loaded with corpses in Northern Italy and then later, contagion level spread and deaths across Spain, the United States, Peru, Brazil, and of course the originating point of Wuhan in China, reminded us all of just how vulnerable we all are.

Perfectly healthy economies were effectively shutdown and drastic curfews and lockdown measures, before now, considered draconian, were instituted to help ‘flatten the curve’ - a phrase that has quickly found its way into the etymology of the global approach to pandemic management and governmental response.

Being a novel strain, information surrounding COVID-19 has morphed since the outbreak first became global in scale.

The elderly and those with co-morbidities or pre-existing medical conditions such as diabetics, asthmatics, or any other class of patients with varying levels of immunodeficiencies, were considered the most at risk groups.

School age children and healthy adults were considered almost totally immune to the symptomatic spread or hospitalization from exposure.

A constant stream of revisions and competing pronouncements from the disparate global CDCs and the WHO have all but stymied any real opportunities at a singular voice and decisive policy or sets of policies that can fester.

The unquantifiable emotional, mental human and economic toll is simply unacceptable, not to mention, avoidable...


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In this episode from our Surviving Covid-19 series, we will be talking about some ideas on how to manage working remotely and being better prepared to re-enter the workforce. Whenever that becomes available again.

To put this in context, we are living in unprecedented times. None of us have ever experienced what we are currently going through. None of us.

There has never been at least in recent recorded history, a reality such as this.

We have never and I mean the entire world, or at least most of it, have never had to impose simultaneous enforced lockdowns and quarantines. Never.

Look it up, you will get the picture.

Let that sink in for a moment. We are living in unprecedented times. If this isn’t a wake up call, then I don’t know what is....

* That worst thing that could happen is letting a good lockdown go to waste.

* Be prepared to reveal a more improved version of you when this is behind us.

* Always keep up with the latest information from your local health agencies and governments.

Stay safe and hope to see you on the next one.


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CoronaVirus (Covid-19) is especially fatal to those living with pre existing conditions, otherwise known as co-morbidities.


The mortality rate amongst those with compromised immune functions has been determined to be higher than those of the general population.


I sit down today with Dr Paul Okhumale, an associate professor of Cardiology at Marshall Health in Huntington, WV.


Background


Although the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention doesn’t release coronavirus data by race, city and state data indicates that COVID-19 cases are heavily concentrated in the Black population. 


According to WBEZ, an NPR news source In Chicago, 23% of residents are Black but account for 58% of COVID-19 deaths.  Another survey published by ProPublica, reveals that In Milwaukee,


Blacks are roughly one-quarter of the population and roughly one-half of COVID-19 cases.  In Louisiana, 7 out of 10 COVID-19 victims have been Black. 


Coronavirus hot spots include a number of cities with large minority populations, such as New Orleans and Detroit, as well as the majority-minority New York City boroughs of Queens and the Bronx.


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CoronaVirus (Covid-19) is especially fatal to those living with pre existing conditions, otherwise known as co-morbidities. The mortality rate amongst those with compromised immune functions has been determined to be higher than those of the general population.


I sit down today with Dr Dora Clayton-Jones an assistant professor of Nursing at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.


Enjoy! #SickleCellAnemia #Covid-19 #Sickle Cell Anemia


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Every week we will seek to challenge and hopefully deconstruct the orthodoxy and dogma that underpins the very fabric of life as we have come to know and accept it. We will do this with much deference to the plurality of mainstream thought that abounds, while asking the very tough questions and seeking to answer them, armed with commonsense and with logic. 

As the saying goes, a philosopher is only as effective as the reaches of their mind.


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