Phwew!! I am on the struggle bus. I spent 300 dollars at the grocery store yesterday and I swear 1/2 of it was useless carbs. I bought six bags of chips, bubble bath and bath bombs, two boxes of brownie mix and ice cream. This is stuff I would never normally buy. I did buy fresh flowers tho and they have brightened up my home.
What I really want to talk about is the elephants in the room. Things that I fear will still be there when this is over and things that in my mind are criminal and ethically unconscionable.
The country is staying afloat by people who don’t make a living wage. People that sell you your groceries, deliver your packages, deliver your food. When this is over we will have done nothing to improve their way of life.
People of color are dying disproportionately from covid-19 because they suffer from health inequity. This is not a new concept. If you don’t know what this is, look it up! It is something that has been an issue for decades. When this is over we will have done nothing to ensure this does not continue to happen!!
Our health care system is a business based on profit. The focus is elective surgeries for people who are well insured. Prices fluctuate depending on who you are and how you pay. We have been told that cost is high to help off set the cost of the uninsured.
17 million people have filed for unemployment, losing their employee based health care. What is going to happen to the cost of health care for the insured? Will the expectation be to pay a higher cost to offset the uninsured. When this is over we will have done nothing to address our critical health care issue and ensure this will never happen again.
We have learned that we have an inept system for handling a public health crisis!! Many agencies that overlap, do not communicate with each other and fight for resources. We have no system that ensures medical equipment, medication and personal protective equipment for health care providers be easily and readily accessible. When this is over we will have done nothing to ensure that this doesn’t happen again.
We do not appreciate and protect all forms of business. Some are expected to go months without income, health insurance, and the ability to sustain housing. When this is over we will have done nothing to grant people the necessities for survival and ensure that it never happens again.
The virus is exposing our weakness, our weakness in health, in a living wage, in access to quality health care, in our ability to survive. Our inability to care for each other as equals. I am emotionally exhausted. I will retreat to my brownies and ice cream and hope for better things to come. To a world that will look to the big picture. The picture of humanity, survival of the species, and the human spirit.
Unapologetically Pretty 
You are so right! Great analysis! And we can fix these things if we have the will to do it! People need to wake up!
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