20/20 Vision
This is year of Reveal,
the earth's energy has shifted.
As unsettling as the past years were,
we never believed the rugs upon we confidently lived our lives would be pulled from beneath our feet.
It was with a fell swoop that our bodies flailed in the air.
Some of us were able to brace the fall with
our hands.
Others fell hard, thrashing to the ground,
shattering spines, unable to stand ever
again.
While we had lost our balance, the blankets were pulled
off our comfortable warm American beds.
We were left to shiver,
exposing the sores on our legs
holes in the
rotten mattress.
We need to look down and see what lies underneath.
2020 is making us see the truth.
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Lots of thoughts ahead.. not all well articulated or researched, but a lot of points that I want to make about the truth being revealed this year. The Pandemic hasn't created new problems as much as revealed where the faults were lying in our society.
There was no “booming economy.” I’ve
listened to people rave about the stock market, and I always replied, “the stock
market is not the economy. It’s only the rich getting richer.” When average
working Americans lives paycheck to paycheck, and missing one month -- one month -- of paychecks forces people to queue at food shelters and negotiate their mortgage payments.
Remember there was a time before the Affordable Care Act when the question was whether government should provide healthcare or not? The ACA changed the conversation. Those politicians preached to the public it was better for
them to have employer provided healthcare rather than accepting “government handouts.”
No one expected people to lose their employment en masse.
Reality is that the sick people went to work because they needed the money, the healthcare, the benefits. They still want to work, and they should. In the midst of an actual health crisis, these are the sores on our legs where the blanket was pulled. Accurate and free testing is required, patients are requiring prolonged and expensive hospital stays, home health visits, and hospital rehab afterwards. Where is the healthcare system to support this? Immigrants do not go to the hospitals for fear of compromising their status and families. Therefore, they'll die with this contagious virus out of fear. For the good of the community, we all have to help people at all levels.
I don’t know it all. I’m just an average American trying to keep my job and family going during this time. I follow the lockdown guidelines, keep our distance and wear our masks. We order through delivery services so we know at least people will get paid. We want everyone to return to work, feed their families through their careers. At the same time, we want everyone to be safe and contain the virus.
Reality is that the sick people went to work because they needed the money, the healthcare, the benefits. They still want to work, and they should. In the midst of an actual health crisis, these are the sores on our legs where the blanket was pulled. Accurate and free testing is required, patients are requiring prolonged and expensive hospital stays, home health visits, and hospital rehab afterwards. Where is the healthcare system to support this? Immigrants do not go to the hospitals for fear of compromising their status and families. Therefore, they'll die with this contagious virus out of fear. For the good of the community, we all have to help people at all levels.
I don’t know it all. I’m just an average American trying to keep my job and family going during this time. I follow the lockdown guidelines, keep our distance and wear our masks. We order through delivery services so we know at least people will get paid. We want everyone to return to work, feed their families through their careers. At the same time, we want everyone to be safe and contain the virus.
I know there are people who are smarter than
me that know this. They have PhDs, advanced degrees and they teach courses and
write books on the topic of public health management, epidemiology, economics, and
humanitarian relief. There are scientists who understand this better and understand
the process and regulations.
They've said the Defense Production Act could have been enacted earlier and more extensively. Asking one company to make ventilators is not enough. Tap different companies to make the masks, redirect the supply chain for producing gloves. Mortgage and credit card companies should have been directed to withhold fees and interests during this time of shut down. What about directing labs to create a unified approach to vaccine research and medicines for the complications? Is anyone planning on how to distribute the vaccine when it's established? Who gets it first?
People have dedicated their lifework to this field
and their voices should be heard. They should be leading the drive. Instead, we
have a schlub who never thought of this scenario when he descended the escalator
to promote his TV show.
They've said the Defense Production Act could have been enacted earlier and more extensively. Asking one company to make ventilators is not enough. Tap different companies to make the masks, redirect the supply chain for producing gloves. Mortgage and credit card companies should have been directed to withhold fees and interests during this time of shut down. What about directing labs to create a unified approach to vaccine research and medicines for the complications? Is anyone planning on how to distribute the vaccine when it's established? Who gets it first?
People have dedicated their lifework to this field
and their voices should be heard. They should be leading the drive. Instead, we
have a schlub who never thought of this scenario when he descended the escalator
to promote his TV show.
Now at the end of March and the day we enter
June, our cities have been ravaged by anger and the injustice of institutionalized
racism. This is the rotten mattress upon which we sleep and think it’s fine. It’s
not. The country is traumatized by the deaths. There’s a lack of leadership, corruption
in the ranks of the law enforcement and a change to the process is overdue. The divisiveness that was planted in our history has been fueled by the regime through social media. The negativity, the fear and emotions are at a high now. We do need to stand united. Once again, I don't know the answers.
One of my inherent beliefs is that bad times end, just as good times.
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