COVID-19 Leaves vs. Roots

 

COVID-19 is a wake-up call about knowledge and what we perceive as knowledge.

For example, the bank wants a business plan that will demonstrate that your plan to dry pork bellies and use them as pizza toppings, will be a stock market home run.

COVID-19 has made cities ghost towns, which were planned based on what governments and business know about human traffic in search of food, sports, services and fun.

Town planning is joined at the hip with business. Towns need to grow, otherwise they become ghost towns. So, cities create basketball, baseball and football clubs, man them with American players on mega salaries, thus generating wealth for businesses within the perimeter.

Families drive down from suburbs on game night, park the car, catch dinner, do some shopping and drive back to rural tranquility.  

Town planning. Big question? Should it follow how a child is born and grows or how trees do their thing? The first example is the origin. Trees and other plants have their beginnings in the soil as seedlings. They are watered and grow up to be big trees with leafy condiments.

For human beings, the soil is the final destination, where they are buried after a successful or lack luster baseball series. For humans, success is the visual, the huge leaves and cars. For trees, it’s the roots, and their ability to spread out, making the tree even more secure.

O. K. So what? Where are you going with all this? COVID-19. The virus is saying let’s invest in the roots, the anchor, which is clean air, water and woman’s health. Let’s preserve what nature regards as sustainable, otherwise, we will end up wearing masks, with business all up in smoke.

This is another ‘written podcast’ by Nonqaba waka Msimang.