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Wholeness

ting whatever employment you need
from where you live, recognizing the Sustainability means getting your food
fact that I am, because my colleague
is. That you cannot live on your from where you live, getting whatever
own, that you need others.
employment you need from where you
The pandemic means recurrent sick- live, recognizing the fact that I am, be-
ness of people, recurrent death of
people… meaning shock. Families cause my colleague is. That you cannot
need psychosocial support from
within the community. Members of live on your own, that you need others.
the communities concerned need to
support each other, so that members
who get sick are counseled, they are for deficiency diseases, which can accepted because it’s dangerous for
supported, they are treated. What I kill us maybe as fast as the Covid them to accept it, because they are
mean by treatment is, I contend that 19. Meaning those young men who responding to international dictates
nature is very wise, nature has cure have run away from Nairobi because that are beyond them. However,
for whatever malady that can be, there is no employment should communities can treat themselves,
because it would be an imbalance to be assisted to engage in organic communities can mitigate against
have a condition that doesn’t have a farming wherever they live. Basket the senseless deaths, by using what-
cure. Our concern and challenge are farming means it can be done along ever medicines are available where
to look around, see what materials the walls of a shelter, it can be done they live, and in particular herbal
our forefathers have used for other along a tree trunk, it can be done medicine, which is working very
pandemics, cast them, like I have under a shade; we have many crops well.
done, and come up with a formu- that can grow that way. Soil is ev-
lation that is tackling Covid 19 very erywhere, water is wherever people They must eat well and other
effectively; It can prevent, it can live… these are the types of skills medicine must be developed in the
cure. By the same token, embracing the agricultural people should pro- form of herbal tonified teas, herbal
a lifestyle that mitigates against the vide, while the medical people look tonified coffee, so that, as peo-
spread of the condition is para- around at the vegetation available, ple drink the tea they are used to,
mount. Adhering to natural health consult people like us so that we can they also enhance their immunity,
requirements on social distance, craft medicine that can sustain our which prevents them from getting
on wearing the mask, on avoiding people, even as they struggle with the disease. By the same token, the
crowded places whether shelters, Covid 19, especially now that the same tea leaves can be injected with
schools or the rest plays a role. hospitals are overwhelmed. something that is viricidal, so that,
for those who have mild infection,
Lastly, whether you are sick or not, Does it mean that Covid 19 the tea alone can contain it. There
you must eat. When people are has a cure? are many ways of doing it, unfor-
incapacitated to an extent that they Covid 19 has a cure, but those who tunately these ways are not being
cannot do what they normally do, are spreading it don’t need a cure. embraced at the quarters they are
they don’t grow the food they need, supposed to be embraced. But, our
meaning they will starve. They don’t It’s being spread for a purpose. It’s constitution, the laws of the land,
a strategy of population extermina-
have adequate food, they don’t have tion through Covid, and those who allow communities to do whatever
a balanced diet; meaning for those escape Covid are eliminated through they can to enhance their survival,
like us who have an agricultural the vaccine. We know. These are which is their fundamental right.
background, we have to craft new
ways to grow whatever we need. facts. Nobody has challenged this So, what I am hearing you talk
conspiracy theory on the pandemic.
Through using basket farming, Otherwise, as a traditional medical about is a return, in a sense, to
which requires minimum space, to practitioner and a professional med- our traditional ways, but in a
grow the fastest growing vegetables, ic by training and practice we have a
fastest growing fruits like tomatoes, more enhanced way, using the
so that even as we struggle with cure; it can be cured. I gave the cure knowledge, information and
to authorities that matter, it wasn’t
the disease, we do not create room understanding of today and

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