1/6 I am seeing that there is no singular approach to responding to this pandemic.The response needs to meet the complexity of local culture.The differences in history & culture in each place appear to create a need to tailor receivable communication & relationship w authority.

2/6 If a particular state tells a citizenry of rugged individualists what to do, they may rebel.Other states expect clear instructions and honesty. Those things look very different in different cultures. W/ lives on the line the need to mind this cultural signalling is serious.

3/6 Living in a culture that is not my own I have to wonder "what am I not able to hear?"-This has been an informative discernment. I am unable to pick up on the deep contextual & historical rootsystems of meaning,or the attitudes and responses of cultures I haven't lived within.

4/6What is totalitarianism to some is safety to others. What is freedom to some is reckless to others.However: It seems that in each place there is something like cultural scar tissue -where old, collective shame,wounds, & numbness are currently generating denial & defensiveness.

5/6These dark spots hinder each culture in their response. The double binds & justifications for things that shouldn't have been justified.These old wounds are guarded fiercely & present as a culturally specific notions of why the havoc & loss of the pandemic"won't happen to us".

6/6 And then the havoc and loss come crashing in --suddenly the inter-systemic failings are everywhere. The matrix of the last century is a little more visible with each crack that reveals its invisible edges.

Just some noticings.