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COVID-19 compassion in self-isolating old age: looking forward from family to regional and global concerns
Self-isolating with my wife, I feel gratitude and compassion for all those supporting us, particularly those who regularly deliver our food and our immediate family members who check on us frequently. My compassion goes out to those on the “frontline”, particularly my niece and her daughter who are...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7317886/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34765874 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s42532-020-00053-4 |
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description | Self-isolating with my wife, I feel gratitude and compassion for all those supporting us, particularly those who regularly deliver our food and our immediate family members who check on us frequently. My compassion goes out to those on the “frontline”, particularly my niece and her daughter who are both nurses in a major hospital and who developed and recovered from COVID-19 symptoms. More broadly, I recognise that there are many communities that have had to cope with both geophysical and socio-politically created disasters while facing the COVID-19 pandemic, among then some young women bee-keepers in Uganda. In the UK context, I have great concern that severe funding cuts for regional and local public health services and disaster planning handicapped the country’s response to coronavirus and may have been a factor in the UK’s high coronavirus death rate. I see both positive and negative changes in air pollution and urban nature in our towns and cities, but also am concerned that we collectively may lose sight of the greater crises of climate change and species extinction. We have to work for a better future by taking forward the opportunities and lessons from our reactions to the pandemic. This leads to compassion for the yet unborn, our grandchildren’s children, who might enter a less habitable, more unequal less collaborative world than the imperfect one we now enjoy. |
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spelling | pubmed-73178862020-06-26 COVID-19 compassion in self-isolating old age: looking forward from family to regional and global concerns Douglas, Ian Socioecol Pract Res Reflective Essay Self-isolating with my wife, I feel gratitude and compassion for all those supporting us, particularly those who regularly deliver our food and our immediate family members who check on us frequently. My compassion goes out to those on the “frontline”, particularly my niece and her daughter who are both nurses in a major hospital and who developed and recovered from COVID-19 symptoms. More broadly, I recognise that there are many communities that have had to cope with both geophysical and socio-politically created disasters while facing the COVID-19 pandemic, among then some young women bee-keepers in Uganda. In the UK context, I have great concern that severe funding cuts for regional and local public health services and disaster planning handicapped the country’s response to coronavirus and may have been a factor in the UK’s high coronavirus death rate. I see both positive and negative changes in air pollution and urban nature in our towns and cities, but also am concerned that we collectively may lose sight of the greater crises of climate change and species extinction. We have to work for a better future by taking forward the opportunities and lessons from our reactions to the pandemic. This leads to compassion for the yet unborn, our grandchildren’s children, who might enter a less habitable, more unequal less collaborative world than the imperfect one we now enjoy. Springer Singapore 2020-06-26 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7317886/ /pubmed/34765874 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s42532-020-00053-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Reflective Essay Douglas, Ian COVID-19 compassion in self-isolating old age: looking forward from family to regional and global concerns |
title | COVID-19 compassion in self-isolating old age: looking forward from family to regional and global concerns |
title_full | COVID-19 compassion in self-isolating old age: looking forward from family to regional and global concerns |
title_fullStr | COVID-19 compassion in self-isolating old age: looking forward from family to regional and global concerns |
title_full_unstemmed | COVID-19 compassion in self-isolating old age: looking forward from family to regional and global concerns |
title_short | COVID-19 compassion in self-isolating old age: looking forward from family to regional and global concerns |
title_sort | covid-19 compassion in self-isolating old age: looking forward from family to regional and global concerns |
topic | Reflective Essay |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7317886/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34765874 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s42532-020-00053-4 |
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