What Can We Do?
While it is true in many ways the current administration has faltered during this crucial time, we can’t turn back the clock on a major misstep. We can’t change what happened last month, last week or last night or even last press conference.
This virus is not partisan, it doesn’t care who you voted for or will vote for. It won’t matter if you’re a veteran, a first responder, a student, a teacher, or whether you are currently employed when it decides to come calling.
Not all Republicans have jobs and not all Democrats are unemployed, get over yourselves! There is no single entity or group solely responsible for the situation the world now finds itself in.
What can we do?
We CAN choose to all move forward & lift one another up. Jobs, housing and food are real concerns for every single one of us. EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. OF. US.
Whether like myself, you are fortunate to work from home, or are facing a lay-off, or are still able to go to work, we are still all in this together. Our bills still need to be paid and our children still need to be fed.
Children are home due to school and daycare closings, many of these kids will go hungry without the meals their school provides. Our grocery stores are limiting hours and shelves continue to be empty of basic necessities due to selfishness, mass hysteria and widespread fear over the length of time this virus will work its way across the country.
Our country needs us to do the right thing, right now.
It’s imperative that we slow the spread of this pandemic. For many Americans this is a life or death situation. High risk citizens need us all to do what we can to protect them. We don’t need the President or Congress, or some other government run entity to tell us how to take care of one another. We already know how.
Basic human kindness may be rare, but we can flood our neighborhoods with it. We can each decide to protect our elderly, our immuno-compromised, our disabled and our health care providers. We must take this beyond washing our hands and staying home.
Checking on our neighbors, offering to go to the grocery for those that shouldn’t, and dropping off basic necessities on the doorsteps that need them. We can each make sure that children are fed and those in need of medications get them. We can offer a hand to the single parent, the health care worker, the first responders that absolutely have to go to work.
Our health care providers and first responders that are at a greater risk than the rest of us, need us to be more cautious. They need us to not hoard and not waste the equipment, tools and supplies that they need to do their jobs.
The stock market doesn’t dictate human kindness, nor should a government. We are in control of our reaction to this situation. Stop looking at others and pointing fingers. The reality we are in cannot be reversed; we can only go forward.
Mental health is equally important at this time, many suffer depression when isolated. The anxiety enveloping the airwaves is bleeding into the veins of our nation. We must choose to not add to fuel to the fire. Conspiracy theories, blaming, hatred and discourse are not what is needed right now. With social media running rampantly out of control, we need to be vigilant in spreading positivity and offer encouragement to those that desperately need it right now.
If your local grocery offers delivery or pick-up services, use them an and encourage your at-risk family and friends to as well. If you are in a low-risk category and can get to a store, let your at-risk neighbors know when you’re going and offer to pick things up for them. If your local schools are offering free meal pick-up, offer to help those children get to the site to pick up a meal.
If you have an abundance of something, please share it with those that need it. Hoarding baby wipes, toilet paper and hand sanitizer is not going to save you.
We live in an abundantly disposable world and we can change that!
STOP WASTING!
Give that virtual hug to your family, friends and neighbors and be grateful we still live in a society where we can choose what we do next!
