Standing Still Amid Pandemic and New World Pattern

By Arthelo Palma

Do you feel anxiety and uncertainty amid this pandemic? Do you feel the discomfort associated with community quarantine and health protocols? You are not alone. The world struggles to pull through its battle with this pandemic. But one thing you need is this book to encourage and give you hope amid tough challenging times today. 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Arthelo Palma
• Release date: Jun 23, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201629670

Arthelo Palma

Arthelo P. Palma is a licensed professional teacher by profession. He holds a degree in Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics, Master of Business Administration and Doctor of Philosophy in Development Research and Administration. He specializes in research and publication, consultancy and training, academic coaching and review services. He regularly conducts training and seminars during his various speaking engagements. He also teaches statistics and quantitative methods in college and graduate school programs. 

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CONTENTS

ABOUT THIS BOOK

A pandemic is a stressful and tumultuous event of human history. Call it discomfort at some point when you have no choice but to obey the government's initiative for lockdown or enhanced community quarantine. This scenario bombards people with such a significant level of stress. Before it's too late, they need to find a vent from this social, economic, spiritual, physiological, and psychological burden.

People are into many things nowadays to cope with stress. But they need encouragement and hope as they would want to convert problems into opportunities.

This book stands as a glimmer of hope as it provides a cerebral discussion about life and the modern world, including their arcane pattern of truth and reality.

The author loves to ponder on the varying thoughts about life and the mysterious consciousness of the universe. Therefore, this book covers practical guidance and information and philosophical underpinnings of life, death, and survival.

In the end, readers will have a chance to piece together the fundamental points of the author.

CHAPTER 1. NATURE'S BEST CHOICE

Natural Selection

A huge, overwhelming number of cases of coronavirus infection is facing the world. Along with this continuing, massive spread is the virus mutation, birth of a new variant, which experts projected to elude immune responses. 

Experts found out and believed people with a more robust body immunity response are more likely not to get infected with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) or at least will be less vulnerable to intensive medical care.

Other studies also reveal how a person's blood type can be linked to the degree of severity of the COVID-19 to one's body. 

Things about COVID-19 are beginning to unveil before our eyes as experts seek to learn more about the responsible virus for the said disease. A glimmer of hope, pulling through our battle with this pandemic, begins to emerge. 

There seems to be a powerful force in nature that controls everything to reach its full beauty, functionality, and potential. One can picture it out from Charles Darwin's Natural Selection theory that explains the fittest's survival.

For instance, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), people living in parts of the world where malaria is common are more likely to have sickle cells. Those who carry sickle cell traits are less likely to experience severe forms of malaria.

Nature has its ways of preserving favorable variations, and Darwin coined it as Natural Selection. Every living organism has the potential to produce and survive, but not all make it. Those with superior physical, behavioral, or other prominent attributes are more likely to survive, pass on their traits, increase, and become more successful than those that are not so well endowed.

Thomas Malthus's thoughts inspired Darwin's theory of Natural Selection. Malthus contended that the population increase of flora and fauna is geometrical, which is a constant factor. He further argued that human capability for food production is only at the arithmetic progression level, which in contrast, the elements increase by a constant difference. If humans' geometrical population increase continues on top of producing food only at an arithmetic progression, people will starve to death. Nonetheless, Malthus concluded that this would not be the case because death limits population numbers. On the other hand, Darwin observed that those organisms with no remarkable traits to survive in a given environment or condition were on the verge of extinction. 

The Fittest

Survival of the fittest. How many times did you hear this phrase? From your introductory biology class in the basic education program, the science teachers probably convinced you to believe that Darwin's Natural Selection talks about how nature chooses the best species or life forms for survival.

I saw a documentary program in National Geographic featuring animals in the wild and their endurance. I witnessed