The Pandemic Speaks: 10 Timeless Truths

Are you finally ready to listen to me now? If so, here are my 10 timeless truths. Audi, vide, tace (Hear, see, be silent.). I have been trying to engage you in conversation for more than a year, but you have not listened. Perhaps you don’t want to grasp the truths I have to offer. They are  gifts really, but I know you will never see my generosity in that light.  Such fear. Such ignorance. Ad altiora tendo (Try harder). But I am bound by ancient oaths and I must deliver these few plain lessons as I have faithfully done for thousands of years. I read confusion on your face. Did you think that I would speak with the rage of Moses, the indignation of Isaiah? Or did you think I would appear in Marvel cape on a TikTok video? Did you expect me to play chess with your armoured ego like Death in The Seventh Seal? No matter. Let me start my instruction by reminding you of my  curriculum vitae. I earned it at the finest university: the diversity of  life over the history of time... Continue Reading at InnerSelf.com: The Pandemic Speaks: 10 Timeless Truths https://innerself.com/content/living/health/diseases-and-conditions/25871-the-pandemic-speaks.html About the Author Andrew Nikiforuk has been writing about the oil and gas industry for nearly 20 years and cares deeply about accuracy, government accountability, and cumulative impacts. He has won seven National Magazine Awards for his journalism since 1989 and top honours for investigative writing from the Association of Canadian Journalists. Andrew has also published several books. The dramatic, Alberta-based Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig’s War Against Big Oil, won the Governor General’s Award for Non-Fiction in 2002. Pandemonium, which examines the impact of global trade on disease exchanges, received widespread national acclaim. The Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of the Continent, which considers the world’s largest energy project, was a national bestseller and won the 2009 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award and was listed as a finalist for the Grantham Prize for Excellence In Reporting on the Environment. Empire of the Beetle, a startling look at pine beetles and the world’s most powerful landscape changer, was nominated for the Governor General’s award for Non-Fiction in 2011. And Slick Water: Fracking and One Insider’s Stand Against the World’s Most Powerful Industry, won the 2016 Science in Society Journalism Award.