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Welcome To My Life Is An Adventure - by Dawitt Abraha THE SUMMER OF 2020 A perspective June 2020 Chiang Mai Northern Thailand by Dawitt Abraha) The year of 2020 started off with the advent or yet another of those periodic regional and sometimes global pandemics. This time it was the wide spread catastrophe brought about by covi-19 or aka Corona virus. At the same time the broader citizenry in America and with solidarity in other countries revolted against police brutality and unfair political-economic suppression of the lower classes. The main spark that ignited these uprisings was the filmed social media broadcast heinous murder of George Floyd, He was an unarmed non--arrest resisting US citizen who happens to be poor and a member of the minority Black population in the year 2020. These are really sad times, and without sounding contradictory these are also dynamic times. A broad spectrum of global consciousness and all sorts and heightened forms of owning up to our shared humanity, our social obligations and decency in humanity is taking place. It seemed that the sense of justice was for but a brief period and but for a small backwardly entrenched unenlightened laughingly absent socio-political section, recognized in all its decency and humanity. We knew it all along as human beings of Africa and or/of African origin that we are endowed with endemic, internal organic human rights. https://www.dw.com/en/african-nations-call-for-racism-debate-at-un-human-rights-council/a-53793065 However; it had been overlooked and or manipulated against us for some good time by the powers that be. We did not really need external confirmations of our basic human rights, of our intelligence, our aesthetic beauty, of our economic rights and of our respect of nature. In the practices of permaculture. While it would have been much more beneficial to the wider world to learn from each other, emulate and engage on trade and economic cooperation based on mutually beneficial comparative advantage; instead the powers that be chose an evil dominate and conquer international MIGHT IS RIGHT slavery; colonialism. The repercussions have been detrimental to the global broader citizenry. The military-industrial complex of Europe and of N. America benefitted financially immensely as well as their agents in Africa, Asia and S America to a much lesser extent. See for instance Walter Rodney HOW EUROPE UNDERDEVELOPED AFRICA Bogke-L'Overture Publications UK 1972. And Richard WOLFF, UNDERSTANDING SOCIALISM Amazon Publications 2020 After all of what had been said; however, it is qualitatively great to witness in 2020 that newer generations of Africans, of Europeans, of North Americans of South Americans to have adopted much more wholesome justice -oriented social attitudes towards us Africans and towards themselves. In the words of Dr ML. King: “And so in a real sense our nation’s summers of riots are caused by our nation’s winters of delay. And as long as America postpones justice, we stand in the position of having these recurrences of violence and riots over and over again. Social justice and progress are the absolute guarantors of riot prevention”. We may soon be due for yet another summer of discontentment and revolts before America gets it right. https://www.dw.com/en/african-nations-call-for-racism-debate-at-un-human-rights-council/a-5379 OUR TIMES UNDER THE WATCHFUL EYE OF CORONAVIRUS: OUR ADDITIONAL JEOPARDY OF HAZARDOUSLY BAD AIR POLLUTION SEASON: A REFLECTION 17 March 2020 Chiang Nai, Northern Thailand (by Dawitt Abraha) BACKGROUND in brief: 1. *The onset of the global CORONAVIRUS aka COVID-19 is recorded to have started around January of 2020 in Wuhan County, Hibei Province, China. 2. But was reportedly rapidly contained relatively soon within China. 3. Unfortunately, CORONAVIRUS has since been showing up in the neighboring sub-continent and beyond at an alarmingly threatening force enough that The UN WHO (World Health Org) declared it a world-wide pandemic on 14 March 2020. //// 4. * ADDITIONALLY, Northern Thailand experiences massive unhealthy to hazardous levels of man-made seasonal (February-April) smoke-filled air pollution, primarily from the finer particles labeled pm2.5. I recommend to friends and family to avoid visiting me during this current season. My present days predicaments: I am most often running my a/c at 26 degrees celsius and my air purifier at its optimum full power inside my bedroom. In my living room, I have two fans running and another air purifier running. It is comfortable enough to move from main bedroom to the living room. My guest bedroom is another story. There is a smell of smoke and is uncomfortably hot. NO ONE sleeps there currently. That room houses my exercise bicycle and out-of-season and out-of -current interest/use, stuff that I constantly recycle. I am now often confined to my living room (&) my bedroom areas, with only limited outside necessary travels . I detest being "forcibly" caged or home-bound. I suffered as a political prisoner of conscience during a younger period of my life. However; I have difficulties "surviving" without patronizing the many cozy and many ambient cafes and tea houses that render my home-base of Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand, as one of the most-livable cosmopolitan towns/cities. If they ever dare to lock-down my cafes, I might have to commit myself to THE SUAN PRUERNG PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL in Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand. They do run a small cafe inside their campus which may, most hopefully, have to be outside the municipal jurisdiction. I also happen to like two cafes located nearby, just to be preemptively well situated if in the unlikely and undesirably dreaded municipal lock-down ordinance happens to be enforced. FYI: THE GOVERNOR OF NORTHERN THAILAND has recently declared karaoke parlors, bars, massage studios and spas, gymnasiums and schools to be closed until further notice. Life in the age of our seasonal smoky season. Life in the age of CoronaVirus in Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand. With serious attention to and practicing sensible public health recommendations, public health officials are advising us to incessantly wash our hands with soap and water, when available, and with alcohol solvents alternatively. They recommend to not touch one's face inadvertently. One of my friends chose to wear a mask everywhere as a tool for that primarily. Social distancing and no hand shaking are the new popular nomenclature. The new style greeting is now gently striking feet with a COOL poise. The AQi reads at 338 this morning at 6:30 am. Definitively in the hazardous zone. It is hot at 78 degrees now . The situation with regional, sub-regional and global Immigration regulations often changing regularly all over S.E Asia and other parts of the world. Words like lock-down are fast becoming part of the lingua franca. The sensational news connected to global coronavirus ups and downs is unsettling. l am good, all things considered for now . I have been "forced" to hang around Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand up to this time. I do not clearly know where to venture out to. So many rapidly changing visa regulations, health alerts, country and town lock-downs info, comes my way. I dream of a landing on a small clean air, less populated, not quite deserted island with my own damsel in distress in my arms. Coconut water and simple living crosses my mind. Stay healthy. Stay well. And most of all - STAY AWESOME. 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