uh, so this ride sucks
This latest disaster should give us pause, not because it’s going to kill a lot of people, but because it could have some longstanding affects in our social structure and community. I keep hoping people will wake up and understand that money is not a value, and our desperate worship of it has left the people without it in a very vulnerable place.
Right now we have to depend on the economic viability of our neighbors and the population not to spread it, but I am in the corner of that is wishful thinking since hospital bills are not cheap and neither is not being able to pay your rent and bills for a time. People will need to go to work and pay for food because that is what we have here–a bunch of people floating through with no safety net. The US has so long been enamored with the rich that they somehow have relegated the majority of the population to second place status with regards to laws enforced and money made. They get to buy favor and avoid paying taxes, all while a bunch of them refuse to pay you, the lowly peasants who work for them, enough to come out of an economic and health disaster like this less as well as they will. And of course I don’t expect we are all on a totally level playing field–but I do expect people who can afford it to be squeezed before the people working their tails off to survive.
You could hope that our outrage could be better directed. Yes, we have a President who is completely unfit and unqualified to hold office, but it was his enablers and the people with no checks who did this. The right has been dangling the carrot of healthcare in front of Americans’ hungry hearts for over a decade and nothing yet. It’s almost like people don’t realize the government and its representatives make money off your health outcomes with the stocks they invest in and the companies whose favor they sow with the legislation they pass right now, and it’s no small amount. To help everyone would cost money, but to neglect them would save money. We need that social security bump as we hear all the time how insolvent it is. Better to avoid solving the problem and having people live even longer in a system that cannot sustain, right?
Anyways, the girl with the news obsession knows a lot of shit about the world, but nobody has ever paid me for the editorials I write. We are screwed, but this is right on time with the last Depression and huge shift in focus for our society to start doing more for everyone rather than the people who pay for it. I would like to see the rich taxed until they feel it like we have and more programs in place to prevent this mess in the future. How about healthcare, sick days, and food help for the community at large? How about we stop obsessing over celebrities, who get to survive this stuff no problem, and start obsessing on our own communities?
I have no idea, but I can tell you I am not feeling great right now. I know that in general, my actions do not leave me at risk, but–I am still concerned because I am not into just being a number–who is, really? But this is the perfect illness to wreck my newly found peace. It’s been like that for months…not feeling like I could truly give in to my freedom and explore beyond messing around with a few classes. And now we have this to worry about and it’s no good.
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