Here I am .. .Sunday morning. I've looked at the Davis Enterprise. There are enforcement requests by citizens for the police to enforce social distancing. Young folks on these nice spring days want to play basketball, etc... It is hard to keep folks in. Also there was a report in the paper about our first Virus case and how she was treated, diagnosed, released, etc... It was early.... and the system didn't know how to do things AND there was misinformation published about who the person was (an elderly women with underlying health conditions was the description of a 58 year old fit athletic professional) so things have had to get better!!!
Today looks like another lovely day in California which means many people will want to be out and about exercising and playing so .. .enforcement?!!
ARE WE A COMMUNITY... and where are the boundaries of community? Is it our city? Our county? Our state... Our nation? The news is talking about protests since the impact is not seen nor felt by many... and it seems to us who are fine sheltering-in-place that those who want to end this shut-down and wrong, etc.. HOWEVER -- who IS ok with sheltering in place and who is not? Retirees with a nice pension .. fine. Workers still working ... fine. As long as they can work safely. In other words - those not fully effected by The Virus... which leaves a whole lot of people starting with people out of work and the homeless, then - or maybe first... the health care workers especially in the earliest days when they didn't know what was about to happen and what they needed to do - while now they still need appropriate resources.... then - kids out of school or adjusting to online school, stay-at-home parents who have to stay inside more then ususal, AND ???
THERE ARE A LOT OF POINTS OF VIEWS... And we see States-rights in conflict with Federal-control. There has been, is, and will be competition between states and regions and that is going to be unfortunate and unnecessary. Unfortunate when safe, recovering, recovered regions could help other places and unnecessary if there was proper coordination on a national and even international level.
Cooperation and community VS competition and selfishness (or self-centeredness or ???). There will come a time when our scary leader will criticize those places continuing to try to control by various levels of quarantines those areas that open up and for a while may not be suffering. There will be bad information, gaps in time between opening and new outbreaks, and people will die who need not have died. And rarely will the dead include the wealthy and privileged.... even as poor and middle class folks fuel pre-mature openings of our economy, etc. ALL In My Humble Opinion....
I have generally not been a RISK-TAKER... and I am a self-declared RISK-AVERSE PERSON... and I hope to stay safe and also help others - close to me and strangers, too.
Today's Davis Enterprise (Davis, CA) and last night's MSNBC music program supporting efforts to combat The Virus especially by heroic health care workers who are now stressed and possibly burning out... The program organized by Lady Gaga titled: "One World: Together At Home" (if the link to the left doesn't work - try searching the name on YouTube and another full copy may come up OR individual scenes will be found) was beautiful and meaningful and motivational. All together wonderful and hopeful, I HOPE. I think the concert was good and positive. Real and serious. A blessing. THANKS!!!!
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