whognu
04-19-2020, 01:33 PM
Dear Mum:
Years and years ago you would tell me to “think globally, yet act locally”
And now that we find ourselves in a global pandemic, I thought I would explain why I am still staying at home
I am staying at home because I respect science and while I question most things, including this pandemic, the science is clear
I am staying at home in respect for the front line workers who are more or less forced to enter into potentially unsafe conditions on a daily basis; you know, the truck drivers, the safeway clerks, the bed pan cleaners, the paramedics, nurses, doctors etc etc etc……….
Yet even more poignant to me is I am staying home in respect of those who can least afford this pandemic to go on even one day longer than it needs to………they are the tens and tens of thousands of honest, hard working Canadians that will, over the coming months and years, lose their homes and businesses to this calamity
I have a big boat now, and normally I would be on said boat, and even though i could effectively self isolate there, I am choosing not to board for another reason; that being should I go to the boat, all my neighbours will see I am ‘away’; all my children, nephews, nieces (who look up to me for guidance), relatives and friends will simply surmise that “what’s good for the goose must be good for the gander” and this is not something I wish to be accountable for
Fortunately I can outlast anything this work stoppage can throw our way; and I am there for my extended family as well
RIP Mum (2006)
I’m doing my (little) part
chris
Years and years ago you would tell me to “think globally, yet act locally”
And now that we find ourselves in a global pandemic, I thought I would explain why I am still staying at home
I am staying at home because I respect science and while I question most things, including this pandemic, the science is clear
I am staying at home in respect for the front line workers who are more or less forced to enter into potentially unsafe conditions on a daily basis; you know, the truck drivers, the safeway clerks, the bed pan cleaners, the paramedics, nurses, doctors etc etc etc……….
Yet even more poignant to me is I am staying home in respect of those who can least afford this pandemic to go on even one day longer than it needs to………they are the tens and tens of thousands of honest, hard working Canadians that will, over the coming months and years, lose their homes and businesses to this calamity
I have a big boat now, and normally I would be on said boat, and even though i could effectively self isolate there, I am choosing not to board for another reason; that being should I go to the boat, all my neighbours will see I am ‘away’; all my children, nephews, nieces (who look up to me for guidance), relatives and friends will simply surmise that “what’s good for the goose must be good for the gander” and this is not something I wish to be accountable for
Fortunately I can outlast anything this work stoppage can throw our way; and I am there for my extended family as well
RIP Mum (2006)
I’m doing my (little) part
chris