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Re-Imagining Our Health Care Delivery System The GoodOne With Onomen
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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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Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onomen-asikele/support
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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Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onomen-asikele/support
7 min