One medicine, One health should be prioritized

3/04/2020

Dear diary,

Staying at home has been a good experience for me, I really enjoy having time with my family, I have food, I can study, I can do many things, and I am one of those privileged that can just be quiet with no fear. But, what about those that cannot be like me? That their lives depend on what they do every day outside of their homes. I think that this is the perfect situation to show that medicine and economy are interconnected, and also that we are not really paying attention to the useful initiatives like the one that I talk about in my last post. Investing in medicine is very important, paying attention to the initiatives like one health one medicine could be very useful to those countries that prioritize economy above environment and people, because let’s think about it, with people at home, to who are you going to sell your goods and services? This situation also made me rethink what kind of stuff we need every day and what does not, then I realize that the people involved in the processes in which my life depend on like medicine and food are not really important for the world under “normal conditions”. We need to be healthy and we need food, and its ok to have fun with a sport, social media or just watching TV, but how much are we paying to a soccer player rather than the farmer that we need for our daily living. How much are we investing in more and more enterprises rather than investigations of our health and the correlation that it has with animals and the environment?

I practice underwater hockey (a very weird sport) and one of my teachers taught me about many muscles that we do not really use, and those muscles can make us better in our performance. He also told me that almost the 95% of the entire population walks with a bad posture. I asked my teacher why we do not know that kind of useful stuff or at least somebody that advices us, and then he answered something that can be proper for this situation “the body doesn’t come with instructions”. The world is not really using what it really need, we prefer to be on instagram rather than learning more about how certain behaviors affect our health, we prefer to watch a soccer match rather than supporting the scientific field. We as humanity are walking in a bad posture, and I hope that this experience teach us what really matters, anyways I think that after this we are going back to the same world but of course because nobody gave us instructions.