It is common knowledge that social distancing works. That it saves lives. Every scientist has confirmed that we should not be eating in restaurants, going to ball games, going to the beach. The pandemic is far from over even if we've "flattened the curve."
I understand people are getting bored. I'm bored. But I'm not bored enough to risk my life. I watch these protesters on the news as they confront the hospital staffs, as they block ambulances, as they wave their flags, and I don't get it. People are worried about paychecks and certainly that is understandable, but the venom that is coming forth from these people is beyond me. Some of the signs actually say it's OK to "sacrifice the fragile to save the economy". Really? Have we gotten to that point? Meanwhile, although flags are many, masks are few. Do they realize or care that they are making themselves vulnerable? Someone, and probably many someones, will contract this deadly disease by piling together to make their point. The point, I guess, is that money is more important than people.
And then there is the absolute hatred emanating from these crowds. They are angry, but it is not clear at whom. At the governors who are trying to save them from themselves? At the lack of freedom to carry on "life as usual"? There IS no "life as usual". What will it take to make them believe the science behind the regulations? There are a lot of Trump MAGA hats in those crowds, which doesn't surprise me. He tends to attract very angry people. I wish he would stop them. I wish he would speak rationally about how important it is to follow the directives of the CDC, how essential it is to let the hospital workers carry on with their incredibly difficult and draining work of saving lives. I don't think that's going to happen. After all, it's his fault we were unprepared in the first place.
Perhaps when they or someone they love falls victim to the virus they'll get it. But I wish we could make them understand before that happens.
Has it really come to this? The "loss of our freedoms" is temporary. What frightens me is that I think a lot of us have also lost our humanity. And that appears to be permanent.
I understand people are getting bored. I'm bored. But I'm not bored enough to risk my life. I watch these protesters on the news as they confront the hospital staffs, as they block ambulances, as they wave their flags, and I don't get it. People are worried about paychecks and certainly that is understandable, but the venom that is coming forth from these people is beyond me. Some of the signs actually say it's OK to "sacrifice the fragile to save the economy". Really? Have we gotten to that point? Meanwhile, although flags are many, masks are few. Do they realize or care that they are making themselves vulnerable? Someone, and probably many someones, will contract this deadly disease by piling together to make their point. The point, I guess, is that money is more important than people.
And then there is the absolute hatred emanating from these crowds. They are angry, but it is not clear at whom. At the governors who are trying to save them from themselves? At the lack of freedom to carry on "life as usual"? There IS no "life as usual". What will it take to make them believe the science behind the regulations? There are a lot of Trump MAGA hats in those crowds, which doesn't surprise me. He tends to attract very angry people. I wish he would stop them. I wish he would speak rationally about how important it is to follow the directives of the CDC, how essential it is to let the hospital workers carry on with their incredibly difficult and draining work of saving lives. I don't think that's going to happen. After all, it's his fault we were unprepared in the first place.
Perhaps when they or someone they love falls victim to the virus they'll get it. But I wish we could make them understand before that happens.
Has it really come to this? The "loss of our freedoms" is temporary. What frightens me is that I think a lot of us have also lost our humanity. And that appears to be permanent.
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