COVIDA20: A STRATEGY, PLATFORM & ROADMAP TO SURVIVE, LIVE, AND THRIVE DESPITE & BEYOND COVID19

Reality Generation in the face of the CV19 Pandemic

This guidebook is for you. Whatever language you speak, no matter where you live, whether you are a woman, a man, an adult or still a child, in good health, sick or even dying, this is for you. A gift from my heart, from our hearts, to yours.

Though billions of us sort of already knew this before the COVID19 virus exploded, today all reasonable humans on earth know well that we all, every one of us, face formidable challenges.

In at least some senses, COVID19 is the least of our challenges.

This virus is, quite literally, the smallest threat we face when compared to other existential threats and global challenges that also threaten to transform, and even end, life on earth as we know it: Climate and environmental disruption; the proliferation of biological, nuclear, and conventional weapons of mass destruction; rising inequality, widespread poverty, forced mass migration, disease, and armed conflict; authoritarianism, populism, and other political viruses; global criminal networks that traffic in organs, humans, land, water, and lives at any cost; corruption and dysfunctional local, national, and global institutions…

These and other such complex, multi-dimensional threats form only a small part of vast global existential challenges that can and do negatively threaten the lives of billions of us humans (and other living beings), directly or indirectly,

And yet COVID19 is currently demanding our focus. While billions of us take refuge at home doing all we can do by observing social distancing and quarantine to avoid an even greater disaster, our shared hope and faith is that the best and brightest among us will soon discover a cure to take away the deadly sting of this microscopic virus and a vaccine to prevent it from spreading.

Once this happens billions hope and trust that we will sooner than later be able to go back to our “normal” lives. That is, for billions of us, we will jump back onto our bikes or into our cars, trains, metros, and planes; rush back to our campus, school, office, factory, store, mall, school, building, or wherever it is we work or study; leave our children, families, pets or homes behind for 8 to 10 hours or more a day; work to earn our living so we can buy this or that at the end of the day or month; and continue on with life as it always was — and for all too many of us, as it “should” be.

Or not.

Maybe things will transform so profoundly before we are able to “get back to normal” that COVID19 will have literally become the reset button or trigger that fully unleashes an entirely new reality, ushering in a vastly new and different era in human and planetary affairs.

Or something in between.

Whatever happens — unless you or I die (and even if we both and many others die) — whatever happens, the future that eventually unfolds does depend on our actions. Your actions, and mine.

So this is what this handbook is about: How we reinvent the future. How we push one, or multiple reset buttons to reengineer reality. How we reimagine, redesign, and reinvent our lives, our families, homes, careers, work, communities, cities, and societies, our relationships to ourselves and to our loved ones, with one another, and with other living and sentient beings.

Let’s explore this together. Let’s co-create a better, safer, saner, happier world. We have been gifted a unique challenge and a massive opportunity to reimagine, redesign, and reinvent our world. Let’s to this together.

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COVIDA20: WHY, WHAT, AND WHO

‘Vida’ in Spanish means LIFE. It comes from the latin “vīta” and is the heart of the words vitality, vital, and curriculum vitae. Life is everything. Life is inseparable from reality. Life is. If we are not alive, we are by definition, dead. So life is not just a word, a concept or an idea. It is the very essence of who and what we are and why we exist. A reality, a value, a “some-thing” that is everything to us as long if we are to survive, live, and thrive. A common treasure worth protecting and caring for.

‘Co’ means TOGETHER. It is a beautiful little two-letter word that is at the heart of so many other lovely words: Community, Communication, Cooperation, Collaboration, Co-Creation — and related terms that are vital and essential today as billions of us are gifted the opportunity to stop, pause, and imagine if and how we can Co-Design, Co-Operate, Co-Elaborate, and Co-Create better conditions, tools, process, and systems that will increase chances that our loves ones, friends, co-workers, neighbors, and even strangers half a world away can all survive, live, and thrive.

COVID19 has gifted us with the awareness that we are all in this together, whether we like it or not. If one of us catches the virus, all of us are at risk.

So it is not enough to think about ourselves, about our own safety, health, and survival. Paradoxically, to survive, live, and thrive, every single one of us, every conscious human on earth needs to literally think about what each and every one of us can do to: (1) Avoid becoming a host and conveyor of this lethal virus; (2) Help other to do the same; (3) Help the families, communities, hospitals, and other social organizations or organisms where others have already been infected and affected to deal with, minimize, and eventually eliminate the presence of the virus in their vital space.

Whether we help make or donate resources so others have access to accurate information, face masks, personal protective equipment (PPE), oxygen bottles, respirators, permanent or temporary beds or hospitals or whatever else is needed, each and every one of us can help make a difference not only to protect our own lives and the lives of those we love and depend on directly for our livelihood — but to also protect the lives of hundreds, even thousands of strangers who might just happen to be a person whose work has contributed to allowing us to access enjoy the coffee, grains or fruits we enjoy in our meals or the phone, tools, pens or paper we use at work.

We are all subtly connected to and dependent on the work of so many others that only now, as the entire global economy is practically shut down, can we realize just how vitally important these interconnections are and just how important the wellbeing and lives of others, even of distant strangers whom we will never meet, are to our own lives. And not merely because someone far away may be one link in a human conveyor belt that could eventually transmit the virus our way, but because that same person, through her or his work, has and does make our lives, or the lives of others around us, just a little bit better through their efforts just as we, through our existence and lives, indirectly touch thousands to millions of others.

So because we are all in this together, to shift the current reality, to tackle and overcome COVID19, we propose CO-VIDA 20 as a shared local to global (“lobal”) and global to local (“glocal”) initiative that co-empowers thousands to millions of us to CO-CREATE BETTER CONDITIONS FOR AS MANY OF US AS POSSIBLE TO SURVIVE THE COVID19 PANDEMIC AND TO LIVE AND THRIVE IN AND BEYOND 2020.

We propose to do this by working together on three core pillars:

1. A SHARED ROADMAP: Designing, refining, and shaping a shared roadmap including a plan of action, vision statement, manifesto or charter, and psychological, moral, and philosophical framework;

2. BUILDING COMMUNITY: Aligning around, and striving for communion, that is a Common-Union, common effort through intentional, meaningful, loving, hopeful, positive, conscious, ethical communication, cooperation, collaboration, and community, aligning our many different energies and synergies around a common intentions, goals, and outcomes;

3. A PRACTICAL PLATFORM: Co-Creating a shared digital, technological, psychological, conceptual, social, moral, economic, political, scientific, and multidimensional platform of platforms to more easily connect, collaborate, and cooperate to co-design and co-create solutions to each and every threat, risk, and problem arising from COVID19, transforming every single threat, risk, or problem into a challenge, an opportunity, and a solution until we have completely stopped, solved, and moved beyond this pandemic, harnessing its threat and fury to co-create new tools, processes, structures, attitudes, values, ways of acting and inter-acting, and of being, inter-being, and becoming better humans and a better kinder, more considerate, compassionate, loving, and caring human family.

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metta Global Solutions
León Galindo Stenutz
April 15, 2020

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