I stayed home sick today. I have a cold with cough and with the recent Corona virus people would not appreciate me coming to their home. Three months ago I would have gone. The truth is health care professionals often don’t do as we say. We go to work sick and contagious because the team suffers if we aren’t there. Let’s be real….We aren’t supposed to get sick.
So we have this super virus that has got people in a panic. My thoughts are, this was expected. Things like this happen, and I am puzzled why we are responding in this way. There have been super bugs in the past, that killed people, caused babies to become deaf, caused brain damaged and permanent mobility issues. Super bugs that wiped out entire populations. We responded, created ways to combat these diseases and improved health. I am talking about things like measles, polio, small pox. The weapon was vaccines.
I am in no way minimizing the threat. Just puzzled at the understanding or lack there of. So it is here, and people are going to get sick and people are going to die. The elderly, immunocompromised and people with chronic medical conditions are at the greatest risk. This includes people who are under-insured, have not been able to treat their medical conditions appropriately because of cost, or poor insurance coverage. Maybe their community lacks providers and they don’t go as often as they should. But wait. We don’t have a problem with this. Oh yes we do.
I see it DAILY!!! People rationing their medication or missing necessary appointments because of a co-pay they can’t afford! These are people who have paid into a system that was supposed to cover them when they retired. A system that isn’t adequate because there are loop holes, coverage limitations etc. Problems that were not supposed to exist when it was originally designed. This is not the patient’s fault. It is a system that isn’t working.
This leads me to my next rant. Corporations are taking a financial hit due to the super virus. Businesses are losing money and somehow that seems to be a top priority. I do have compassion for small business owners, it could be devastating but I have a problem with bailing out huge companies. Companies that don’t pay their fare share of taxes. Families are often ridiculed for living pay check to pay check. Why don’t you have money in savings, a cushion for the unexpected? Point taken, but there is a huge difference between 30 thousand dollars a year and a company that make billions of dollars and pays their CEO’s 6 and 7 figure salaries. I’m sorry, where is your cushion, did you not plan for something like this? Guess where the money for these bailouts is coming from? The money that funds Medicare and Social Security!! Umm go back to the previous paragraph!! What is happening. Have we all lost our minds?
Sooo Wash your f’ing hands. Vaccinate your children. Take the flu shot. Insist on healthcare for all, healthcare that is a right not a privilege. Talk to people and hear what is really happening. Have compassion and vote for crying out loud!!
Unapologetically Pretty 
Right on!!!
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