28/03/2020
Social Distancing - This was my thought when I was hiking through the rainforest. I know many people come to Belize for the beaches, boating, and coral reefs. While snorkeling at the coral reef was by far the best experience I had. The rainforest also took my heart. I've been obsessed with it since I was a child. The best part was I felt complete isolation from the rest of the world. We were the only ones here, and you could only hear the water and the wildlife. It made me think to myself how I could just live here. It has everything I would need.
Plus with coronavirus creeping at the worlds doorstep while I was there. That was all I was seeing on my news feeds. The world economy was crashing, boarders were being shutdown, and you could see that hysteria was settling into bed next to the world. So many thoughts about returning home were going through my head. Do I have enough food, is America prepared, why did I move to a big city, will our economy make it through this, will I get sick, and what about my elder family? You could see so many people thought it was a joke, which in itself was disheartening. Facts are now opinions, and opinions are now facts.
That's when I thought to myself how greed has created this monster. International travel so business can expand. Overpopulation with the ever growing family. Human expansion is killing the world. We are a cancer and I could see the cancer in some of the most remote areas of this country too. Now the world is starting to kill us. The world ecosystem will fight back. We've been seeing it for two decades at a rapid rate. We'll either kill ourselves by destroying it or the world will rid us from the face of the planet.
The moral of the story is we all need to start taking Mother Nature more seriously. Humans don't have to be a cancer. I believe just like the Native Americans that we can can coexist. In the meantime I'll be practicing social distancing just like this lone ranger mushroom I found here.
or @ Cockscomb Jaguar Preserve
