03-30-2020, 09:16 AM
hokuili,
"the lord helps those who help themselves" Compassion is one thing but many of the problems brought on people are self inflicted. A choice.
The pandemic is tragic, Many lives are being lost. But let us reflect the fact that many people die everyday needlessly. We accept those deaths for convenience. People could eat more healthy, loose weight and prevent millions of deaths related to that, Diabetes, heart failure, smoking etc. Few tears or empathy is given or nary a thought about those preventable tragedy's. The yearly flu kills hundreds of thousands each year. Aside from those who are directly affected not one word spoken.
Yet we are, half the worlds population coming together to fight the spread of this pestilence. Meanwhile, many of those people without work, without means to pay for expenses are hurtling towards financial destruction. Sure some will get a bailout check, and many will spend it wisely but many wont and that is the Choice they will make.
The pandemic is merely the stone thrown into the pond, the waves it has created will reach far and wide. Those ripples will travel slow but most assured they will reach the shoreline of everyone.
Help who you can, if you can. But dont let yourself become a victim in the process. Its not your fault for other peoples choices.
"the lord helps those who help themselves" Compassion is one thing but many of the problems brought on people are self inflicted. A choice.
The pandemic is tragic, Many lives are being lost. But let us reflect the fact that many people die everyday needlessly. We accept those deaths for convenience. People could eat more healthy, loose weight and prevent millions of deaths related to that, Diabetes, heart failure, smoking etc. Few tears or empathy is given or nary a thought about those preventable tragedy's. The yearly flu kills hundreds of thousands each year. Aside from those who are directly affected not one word spoken.
Yet we are, half the worlds population coming together to fight the spread of this pestilence. Meanwhile, many of those people without work, without means to pay for expenses are hurtling towards financial destruction. Sure some will get a bailout check, and many will spend it wisely but many wont and that is the Choice they will make.
The pandemic is merely the stone thrown into the pond, the waves it has created will reach far and wide. Those ripples will travel slow but most assured they will reach the shoreline of everyone.
Help who you can, if you can. But dont let yourself become a victim in the process. Its not your fault for other peoples choices.