Post date: Apr 08, 2020 6:7:53 AM
sometimes all i feel is hate and fear ... and guilt, and more hate for those in power who do nothing to stop further deaths.
"The coronavirus is terrible for all, but more terrible for America’s underclass, now redefined not just as the poor and marginalized, but those who are deemed “essential”— not [just] to heal the sick but mostly to enable the rest of us to successfully shelter in place. Grocery workers making minimum wage. Amazon workers making just a few bucks more standing side-by-side in the giant warehouses and left on their own to gauge their risk when they deliver packages. Postal workers, through rain and sleet and snow and, now, potentially deadly illness. Farm workers, mostly immigrants and undocumented, “given letters attesting to their ‘critical’ role in feeding the country.” Auto workers, volunteering to go back to work to make ventilators. Hundreds of thousands of the newly unemployed knowingly putting their lives at risk out of desperation."
~ more @ slate
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that said, there is enough bad news out there. my intention was not to make you feel worse ... so this is something of a knee-jerk reaction from how i myself feel about certain current circumstance.
then again, it took 10(?!?...?!!?!) years for the united states legislature (i.e. Congress) [1] to pass any laws granting compensation for the first responders who acted selflessly during the events of September 11, 2001 and suffered health problems.
it's important to establish the groundwork for the fights to come .. and yes, there will be fights. rich people don't let go of money very easily, and the United States government is mostly comprised of rich men.
yes, it's sad to hear.
it'd be even sadder to hear that families who lose good men and women because of selfless acts, once again, wait another 10 years = 3652-3 days for their healthcare bills to be paid because of righteous selflessness for the benefit of their nation.
would you deny veterans their benefits?
is this not a war we're fighting?
my fellow citizens: if we fight for them now, then they don't have to fight for themselves while they and their loved ones suffer ... or even grieve for loved ones.
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[1] some of you who read this are not from the united states, in which case it's good to clarify the instances of modern democratic government in a particular nation.