Testing for symptoms as a means to see if people have the coronavirus is like leaving the
barn door open after the horse has escaped. It obviously does not work, since people who have COVID-19 are CONTAGIOUS 14-21 DAYS PRIOR TO THE APPEARANCE OF SYMPTOMS. Testing for fevers before going into any building will remove a suspected person with the killer virus, but only after he or she has infected numerous other people for those 14-21 days prior to the temperature taking.
There is a false semse of security out there today. We are not used to dealing with pandemics these days. It has been over a century since we dealt with smallpox. We seem to have forgotten how we got rid of polio and other diseases.
This is not just about the money.
Lives matter. Black lives matter. Blue lives matter. Red lives matter. Yellow lives matter. Brown lives matter. While all colors of people matter, there is a systemic worldwide racism that says, to this very day, that black lives do not matter. I am pointing out the growing number of white supremists in this country. While this is not the reality of some black and Latino doctors, lawyers and successful people, it is the reality for many black and Latino people across America. So while I mention that all lives matter, I am especially pointing our that black and brown lives matter. These are the people in our inner cities suffering the most in this COVID-19 pandemic.
It is a lie to say the curve in the United States of America is flattening. It is not. If you take the New York State stastics out of the picture, the statistics for the US go straight up. We are foolishly fooling ourselves. We all will pay the price for our own willful ignorance.
If having 1,699,634 confirmed cases in the United States of America today, up 19,056 from yesterday, (that is, taken from only those who have been tested, which is less than 1 percent of our total population), then go out across America with your families. Board airplanes, go to sporting events, go to churches and wherever else you want to tempt fate.
Even those of us who thought this was all a hoax and denying reality are now burying their dead.
If having 93,271 confirmed cases in Massachusetts today, up by 596 since yesterday, does not matter to you, then go out with your families.
If having 155,092 confirmed cases in New Jersey today, which is 938 more than yesterday, does not matter to you, then go out with your families.
If having 112,017 conformed cases in Illinois today, which is more than 1,713 than yesterday, does not matter to you, then go out with your families.
If having 68,186 confirmed cases in Pennsylvania today, which is 473 more than yesterday, does not matter too you, then go out with your families.
In New York, if having a total of 362,764 confirmed cases today, which is more than 1,249 more than yesterday, does not matter to you, then go ahead and plan your traditional Memorial Day celebrations.
Memorial Day celebrations, especially for those veterans in veteran’s homes across the country will never be the same, because in this case, we inflicted our own veterans with death by our stupidity. They made it through wars. They made it back home. They made it into old age. But so many veterans did not make it at this point at the end of their lives because those at the top of the command chose ignorance over science-based care.
I debated on the word “stupidity” in the preceeding paragraph. Why did I stay with that word? We are all living in a time when we seem perfectly fine deluding ourselves on so many matters, because of financial interest, jobs, political interests, you name it, because of some other benefit other than the truth of the matter. This general lack of truth malaise has now insideously crept its way into present life and death situations. Going along with ignorance as if it were truth is literally stupid of us. We are better than this.
It is humanly possible to put out our American flags in honor of Memorial Day, watch parades and special ceremonies on TV, without going to large gatherings which are known to fester and spread the coronavirus like wildfire.
Just because I CAN do something, does not mean that I SHOULD go out and do something someone else tells us to do. You and I have the unique ability to stop this COVID-19 in its tracks. You and I are in charge of ourselves. We have the unique choice to stop the spread of COVID-19, or choose to live with it forever. How you and I decide to individually handle this pandemic personally is how this pandemic will continue to live or not live.
I choose for the people to live, not the pandemic.
All our veterans would thank us for a job well done if we choose to put an end to this pandemic, first in our home, neighborhood, state, country, continent and world.
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