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The graphic atop this diary has been making the rounds on social media, with good reason. Our country is reopening, despite numbers that are nothing short of catastrophic. It seems that, once again, decisions are being made that favor money over people.
Yes, I know it isn’t THAT simple. Money has its place in all of our lives, always has, always will. I understand I tend to look at it too simply. But for me, money is a tool, no more. Something we use, within our world, something we should always try to use to make things better. For PEOPLE. Money isn’t sentient, it isn’t alive, it has no opinion on issues. Its feelings cannot be hurt. Of itself, it has no agenda.
Tools are supposed to work for us, not the other way around. By the time this diary is stale, over 70,000 human beings will have died in this country. (Worldometers said 69,921 as this diary was being prepared. I think we’re losing close to 3,000 of our brothers and sisters every day.) And, instead of even continuing measures to reduce the spread and impact, we are UNDOING them.
I read today they have revised the projected death tolls well above 100,000 now. (A recent CNN story just said 134,000.)
There won’t be room enough on our flag to depict and honor them all.
Thanks for reading. May you and yours remain safe, if you haven’t already been touched more deeply by this tragedy.
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