Editor's Note by Christy Korrow
Dear readers,
I will always remember where I was on February 29th, the day that our state health department held a press conference telling us that the Novel Coronavirus was beginning to spread in the two counties that border us. And now, five weeks later, it has altered the fabric of our country’s society in ways we have never seen in our lifetime.
A section of our dining table is cluttered with bottles of homemade hand sanitizer, essential oils, vitamins, homeopathic and anthroposophic remedies, and homemade Chinese herbal tinctures.
by Adam Blanning, MD
There are many small things we can do to help support each other through a flu. We can collectively work to understand “When I am sick, what is my body trying to accomplish, what does it need to do to get better?” and then we work to support those tasks. Fever is created by the immune system to physiologically aid the process of dissolving and clearing out what has become too isolated, too stuck, too cooled in our own body.
Mutual Aid: Solidarity not Charity and Cooperation for the Sake of the Common Good
During the Covid-19 Outbreak, hundreds of mutual aid networks have sprung up around the US, and the world. The links below will take you to a wealth of interesting information ranging from the kind of activities a mutual aid network can offer, how to start a mutual aid network in your community, the history of mutual aid, and how and why mutual aid differs from top down institutional non-profit organizations and charity.
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