6. This is why I always think of viruses, for example, as molecular sharks. They just 'want' one thing: to replicate. As such, their mutation and subsequent adaptation will always be aimed towards that goal. It goes without saying that none of our beliefs as humans changes that.

11. These three factors: lack of triggering the human disgust mechanism, inability to be generalised, and lack of widespread understanding of sequelae of infection all contribute to the societal denial of the dangers of Covid-19.

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So having ways to bring more of us to our senses looks important. I'm half starting to see how SCIM could become a more useful ingredient by finding how to integrate all the different elements that actually play out in a real crisis. If knifes & handles works, some people need specialised handles.

I've never been in a #H5N1BadSoonScenario, one where there's asymptomatic transmission that kills a % of the young. But I can imagine that the level of emotional-cognitive disfunction would be higher than say, has been and is still with COVID. Panic includes jumping from high windows... or freezing.

Will definitely include that in a SCIM leaflet! This is not for replacing but for complementing, as an extra quick and dirty tool for making sure we cover the basics. SCIM becoming an element of the ecosystem - without being diluted*. (*Happened with thinking hats. "Yeah, we know." Power missed.)

That's what I see and like in SCIM: that it's a simple language for cutting through the noise in VUCA situations: train carries food before pianos. If piano teachers need food, they get food first, pianos later. (They can also teach whistling.)

Emergent change agents... and I also heard about the "disabled" POV, in that it makes everyone else safer, by not assuming everyone can run. (Most of us are not Rambo.)

Important again, to see SCIM as being in competition/collaboration with other elements of the response. Ideally, in my mind, it would be a mini-language for doing part of what needs to be done: make sure we have clarity on surviving the crisis. The needs-then-systems mindset may be extended later.

No, I don’t have a comparisons between SCIM and other models. It would be useful to find some sort of map for the models available. (It's the kind of thing I'd use AI for: serving my exploration as a kind of google-plus or whatever.) Then we could see what if anything does SCIM contribute - or miss.

If the analogy of a building on fire is any use, that ~1% of people who keep their cool and help others to navigate the crisis - what do they need? Probably 1) emotional management, 2) knowledge specific to the situation, 3) ways to communicate to solve stuff, 4) ways to communicate to guide others.

Nature should be stopped. Who does she think she is, really? (That aside, that's the one reason I don't engage in "origin" stuff. Nature by itself is more than enough motivation to prepare for #H5N1BadSoonScenario or whatever people feel comfortable preparing for.)

Maybe nobody, of course. But maybe it's a number of us in the different corners of the world. And, IF (big if) that's the case, maybe we should try and find each other, maybe taking your question as one of the grains of sand around which molecules... etc.

So maybe it's How are We going to Do This?