Dr Jeff Gusky shares paradigm shifts that must occur, for America to heal after the, COVID 19, pandemic and Systemic racism. Paradigm shifts are vital to our safety and recovery in America. These paradigm shifts could restore humanity and save America from destruction.
Dr. Jeff Gusky is a board-certified emergency physician now in the front lines against COVID 19. Dr. Gusky is also a renowned National Geographic photographer and Explorer his discoveries and photographs are now featured at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American history and culture. He found a secret hidden for over a hundred years that should change the way we see, racism, in America.
We open our eyes to the danger of the indoor air we breathe and, COVID 19
The air we breathe is an invisible killer. The, COVID 19, coronavirus spreads like wildfire because of the dryness of indoor air. We spend 90% of our lives indoors and the right humidity saves lives.
There is a simple plan that makes invisible danger, visible and that is a device called a Hygrometer. Indoor humidity is between 50 and 60 percent, so I believe that this is the most important public health measure.
Americans can do right now because it helps to prevent small viral outbreaks from becoming massive viral bombs. Property humidity will save lives and will get America back to work sooner and safer.
It is almost like a bulletproof vest for our respiratory tract. We have mucous membranes that goes from the tip of our nose and our mouth all the way deep into our lungs and what lines our mucous membranes; but mucus when the air is dry is impaired. It dries out and cracks and pathogens like, COVID 19, can get into our bodies.
I like to say, It’s the weather stupid! Because it turns out that outdoor weather affects indoor air. We know about humidity because we get the relative humidity from the weather forecast; but that has nothing to do with indoor humidity. It turns out that indoor air is bone-dry and that is why the, COVID 19, virus spreads in nursing homes.
The tragedy of nursing homes is also the problem with inner cities. The inner city poor are also affected. In both situations you have high population density indoors and dangerously dry indoor air acts like an accelerant. You should go out and you buy on Amazon or Walmart a digital hygrometer. They only sell for like $12 or $14. a digital hygrometer is a little device that gives you a real-time readout of your indoor humidity.
Paradigm shift – Addressing, Systemic Racism, in America.
This podcast interview was recorded before the murder of, George Floyd, by a Police Officer in Minnesota. Dr Gusky said in this interview long before the entire world got to see a black man’s life ebb away while the Police Officer just continued to kneel on his neck for close to 9 mins, killing him. So it is surreal that a White man said that we need a paradigm shift to save America from self-destruction because of, racism. Dr Gusky said when we belief in each other, healing race is possible.
The paradigm shifts that must occur in America to remove systemic racism:
- We must remove racist ideas. A racist idea is an idea that one race is superior to another. It is removing White supremacy. All races are created equal in the eyes of God.
Systemic racism, reveals itself when White people feel that they are superior and that, Black Lives Don’t Matter. Black Lives Matter, Brown Lives Matter, All Lives Matter
- We must remove racist policies. A racist policy is any policy that leads to inequality and Systemic injustice, Like the police officers profiling Black men or employers not hiring Blacks because they feel like they are lazy. Just one of the stereotypes that contributes to systemic racism in America.
- We must become Anti-Racists and not just call ourselves, non-racist. A non-racist does nothing. A racist has racist ideas or racist policies by action or thought. A racist idea is is any idea that promotes that one group is better than another group it promotes racial hierarchy so the opposite of that is that is not non-racist but Anti-Racist. There is no middle ground.
Systemic Racism in America
As an explorer, Dr Gusky found a secret hidden for over a hundred years that should change the way we see, racism in America. It’s a dignity story about African-American heroes who faced down a frightening infectious disease pandemic during the Spanish-American war and won their courage back. They were a shining example of how we can win against the, COVID 19, pandemic we are facing now. In crisis we should see differently, we shouldn’t see race, because the virus doesn’t see race. It kills Black, White, Yellow and Brown alike. So we should see A human race. Two African American patriots who lived more than a century ago, show us what it means to be an American. When we face extreme danger together, and trust in each other, it is the glue that gets us through.
Dr Gusky found a hidden world from world war 1, that was basically unknown to the outside world. These were underground cities, hidden beneath the former trenches with tens of thousands of soldiers. One of these places turned out to be the only trace of an African American combat unit. These discoveries are now featured in the exhibit at the SNM of African American history and culture near the White House. The exhibit will probably be there through September.
We got, systemic racism, wrong in America and we now have a second chance to get, racism, right. This black unit was the only all African-American unit in the US military with all black soldiers and all black officers and they fought been together for America for 49 years. The story shows African American political power and self-determination that had existed long before Dr. Martin Luther King was born.
Black Lives Matter
The sad news is that we are still fighting systemic racism and for racial equality in this nation. It has been 60 years since the march at Selma over the bridge and we as Black people are still marching over bridges, protesting and the White supremacist still don’t see us as human. We have been saying, black Lives Matter, for decades. We have shouted it from the pews in churches, we have shouted it in marches, we have shouted it in congress and they turn a deaf ear. Now since, George Floyd’s death, they are finally listening.
Systemic Racism, it’s not an intellectual thing it’s a visceral thing. The Civil War was the beginning of a long difficult journey to demand the end of, racism in America, but America got stuck along the way because it benefited them financially to keep their, knees on our neck!
Paradigm shift – Radical Transparency in the media.
A new approach to protecting free speech while protecting society from human predators who manipulate media to incite fear and rage during times like now, when people are vulnerable angry and afraid. I’ve witnessed the dangers of mass media without transparency in a very personal way. I was the first fine art photographer to go behind the former Iron Curtain and documented the hidden world of the Holocaust after the fall of the Berlin Wall. I’ve walked the ground remote corners of Europe and the former Soviet Union where millions were murdered in modern times because no one stopped a few bad people from turning civilized nations into weapons of mass destruction using media. So mass media without transparency gives people with a pathological essence of conscience, like the Harvey Weinstein’s of the world. Unimaginable power to do evil and they all use the same tired old formula of myths amplified by media to incite rage and crowds for power.
Predators love media, because it gives them enormous power over the rest of us while concealing who they really are and what they’re really up to.
The paradigm shift only works when transparency doesn’t work because when media has no checks and balances, we have almost no way of knowing when it’s fake news.
Dr Gusky is a professional speaker I’m represented by National Geographic speaker’s bureau. If anyone wants to have me come speak or even online they can contact National Geographic speaker’s bureau or online at www.JeffGusky.com. and if they can if the are in Washington before September please stop by the Smithsonian exhibit.
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FAQ’s Systemic Racism
- Individual Racism: Refers to the biases, prejudices, or discriminatory acts committed by one person against another.
- Systemic Racism: Refers to macro-level systems, laws, and organizational cultures that actively produce racial inequality, advantaging some groups while disadvantaging others.
Systemic racism manifests across multiple foundational pillars of society:
- Wealth & Housing: Historically, policies like redlining barred minority communities from property investments and mortgages. Today, data shows that the median wealth for white households is significantly higher than for Black or Hispanic households.
- Criminal Justice: Disproportionately higher arrest and incarceration rates affect communities of color, alongside longer average sentences for the same crimes compared to white individuals.
- Healthcare: Disparities exist in access to care, with higher rates of infant mortality and maternal complications during childbirth observed among Black and Native American populations compared to white populations.
- Education: Students of color are disproportionately more likely to attend high-poverty schools with fewer resources, and Black students face higher rates of school suspension and expulsion compared to their white peers.
Even when explicit discrimination is illegal, the historical compounding of disadvantages creates structural hurdles. Practices such as relying on property taxes to fund public schools, relying on algorithms or credit checks that reflect past economic disparities, and utilizing hiring processes that favor resumes with certain geographic or cultural backgrounds naturally reinforce existing hierarchies without requiring individual ill intent.
- American Civil Liberties Union: Provides resources on racial justice, voting rights, and criminal law disparities.
- NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund: Offers an in-depth breakdown of critical race theory and its application to systemic racial issues.
- American Psychological Association: Features FAQs addressing how systemic biases impact psychological and mental health frameworks
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