I guess this will be my last post in this topic because I understand that people opt out.
I was thinking about EVERYBODY (your friendely neighbour, the people in the street, in the shops, people sitting in metro's, at work, your parents, grandparents, children, family....
So we can take care for the weakest.
Take special care for your medical and nursing personal, you'll need them.
We all consider us intelligent? Well: inform yourselves about the numbers.
You have a window of about ten days.
Don't use even a simple mouthmask yourself:
give them to a hospital or nursing home. This will be more efficient for your country. You'll need to take one for the team, meaning: medics and retirement home's.
The one my mother is in send an email asking about cloth to make simple mouthmasks themselves.
In Italy and France they (the hospital-doctors) are talking about 'war triage' within a week. Specially talking about the lack of mouth-masks, within a week ore two, asking people to help them out regarding FFP2's.
And guess what: ALIBABA donated some 500.00 pieces to our country.
If you have a stock of FFP2 or -3: be prepared to give them to hospitals.
For those who wonder what my avatar is about:
2nd batallion Field Artillery.
The last months I was reminded about some basic values I learned there a long time ago.
Alone you mean (almost) nothing
Together you can achieve anything
Honour and integrity.
I humbly serve.
Here is what I see around me.
Homeless: day shelters have closed and offer only meals to go. Talk about increasing benefits and assistance and all that short term nonesense.
Low paid workers: One time assistance of 1000 dollars IF they have to take time off due to illness. Otherwise the.y still have to work minimum wage and risk getting I'll. An example are workers in warehouses unloading acontsiners and palletizing; they can not exercise any meaningfully distancing while working and go to lunchrooms packed together eating onnthevsam tables. Washroom conditions are disgusting. I was at a acouple last week. Then comes the blood suckers, big grocery chains and announce a two dollars increase to those laborours but for temorary period and everybody cheers for keeping me he supply line going.
Prostitutes: standing on the corner we usual hoping for some business,.I could only guess that covid is the least of their worry.
Instead of charity we should asking ourselves how did we get here, how did it come to the his. I can not in good conscious say I care because caring is about doing and forum activism is the most I do.
Guaranteed housing as an absolute right for all. Don't just give workers a temporary raise; guarantee a minumum income now and always.And when q government like the liberal BC government closes a hospital for mentally ill, gather it's leaders and lock them up in prison. And then finally when you have an epidemic and want to house the homeless , ceize the most expensive alomst fineshed highrise downtown Vancouver and house th m there.
Note: This was written on a mobile phone that seems to replace my spelling mistakes with meaningless mumbo jumbo. But it did my b st to proof read it.
Edit:I think you took my "we" personally and that is your choice. We is larger we,global we not PLC forum we and is based on personal observation, experience and reflections. I thought that wouldn't have needed clarification but what do I know.
One more Edit as I'm driving out of province and only have my phone me to kill time with on my breaks:
Those numbers are meangless to me and show how "we" trivilaize things. All the problems we are facing as a result of the he pandemic are products of inequity and the solutions should not be bandaide solutions. Again, how did we get here? I donate to the poor, and help as much I can and always have, is that enough? Of course not because right around me there are homeless, poor etc and charity is not and was never the solution.