The only difference between “mostly sunny” and “partly cloudy” is the weatherman’s outlook on life!
Here is a link to an article on the costs we are all paying for extended “isolation”. They may call it; social distancing, self-isolation, family isolation, lockdown – whatever they’re calling it, IT IS isolation. This is one of the first articles I saw on the subject and probably hasn’t been written until recently, for very obvious reasons. That is, who would dare talk about breaching self-isolation etc. in the throes of so many people being diagnosed as a carrier or exposed or in ICU. No one makes light of the situation but I’m not sure how many people are really thinking about what’s happening to our economy.
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Americans are workers, people come from all over the world to experience the freedom of entrepreneurialism and opportunity. Those opportunities have been taken away, for very valid reasons. But the risk of this choice is very extensive. We cannot “eliminate risk in life” but we can certainly “manage it” and we have chosen elimination, up to this point. I’m not here to discuss whether that makes sense or not. The only thing I am floating out to all of you is, it’s time to get back to work. It is time to set a date to release this country’s power and get us back to economic prosperity. Will the risk be gone, probably not but we have advanced our knowledge of this disease tremendously, over the last number of weeks.
So, my call to all of us is please start thinking that it’s time to get back to producing goods and services for each other. As one author put it: “we have lost our center of gravity in all this craziness”. Let’s set a date in the not-too-distant future, so we all can hope that we will be substantially passed the acceleration. This way we can get our society back to work, at all levels, reduce tensions in the family – grocery stores – everywhere. And what has become extreme stress for individuals who work paycheck to paycheck.
I feel for the three ladies who serve meals at a local breakfast hang out – the cooks who prepare those meals and the busboys/girls who clean up. They all work for minimal wage and of course, the most important part, tips for good service. We all will be a lot happier when we can start seeing our neighbors, finding out how everyone did and get back to living life as a community. We can most definitely do this, in a very orderly fashion and return eventually to normalcy – somewhat!
Something to think about – read the article and think about risk-management and not risk-elimination – that’s not what were made for.
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