Things Worth Considering

Here was something that we didn't consider, a positive side-effect of the Covid-19 pandemic. While country after country was shut down, her citizens quarantined, a silence began to descend upon the earth, and the earth sighed in relief. Measurable by satellite, nitrrous dioxide, caused by cars, trucks, diesel trains, was decreasing, a seismograph was picking up surface earth movements that normally would not be read as the noise on the earth stopped the waves from travelling to the machines. Studies on Right Whales in the north Atlantic and Humpback Whales on their journey up to Alaska are showing marked decreases in stress hormones Cortisol and Adrenalin, which interfere with their ability to reproduce. Even the oceans are quieting down with the cruise and shipping vessels tied up in their home ports. While the earth is being given a break we humans may not be doing as well confined to our homes we are feeling restless and nervous, We look at the earth and the reactions we are having.