how much do we really care about all people?

I haven't wrote on here in a long time.  Mainly because my actual life is do busy when I have time to stop I would rather relax then write. Now, however in this very odd situation we all find ourselves in I have some free time.  Please excuse the mess while I re-stretch this muscle of writing.

So let's get started...


WTF?  How did we all get into a situation were there is an actual pandemic so we have to navigate all our daily problems under the microscope of what can happen if we even leave our home?  Plus, the issue of people having no home to stay within. It's the ultimate showdown of how much we care about others.  And then if we really care about others are we willing to risk ourselves to help them while also asking that of others.

It throws no many things into a tailspin with special circumstances for every resulting situation.

There's a pandemic, kids can't be at school.  But they get their food for the day from school.  Ok, we will risk ourselves and make sure school children have food. But by doing so you put every one of those kids at risk because something could happen and our precautions aren't enough and these kids could become victims of the pandemic we are trying to protect them from.  It's constant.  There is no "only one right answer". It's driving my mad!

I feel like I'm watching a survivor style existence battle between most of Bernie Sanders platforms and this pandemic.

Most things you do for yourself in some capacity means other humans are having to put themselves in danger.  Even the act of needing and buying food.  You go to a grocery store, you put yourself at risk plus those you live with while also putting everyone else at risk for being the reason they need to be risking themselves.

It's the ultimate my life is more important than yours but only possible because of others.  So we make sacrifices, we determine what risks are ok. For some that's flooding the internet with shopping for delivery so we don't have to go out. That means people in places are gathered to fulfill these orders putting themselves in danger. And these people are usually those that don't get supported for wanting their jobs treated as an essential part of society.

Take Amazon for example.  They have had issues in distribution centers of people having COVID-19.  Those that work there don't get paid enough to be risking themselves to be there but they also just expect the company they work for to take steps to better protect them so they can meet the needs asked of them.  The deserve better working conditions.  Thus we have corporations putting monetary value on human beings. How many can we sacrifice to maintain a profitable and essential need requirement? And it's wrong that a company does this, ever. However, they are allowing others to maintain staying at home protecting themselves.  So it's an endless cycle of the "essential" employee needing to have the public care enough about them that they are at least:

1. Paid a wage that supports them and their families
2. Healthcare so if they, while putting themselves at risk, get sick they can be taken care of without having to worry about losing income or their healthcare
3. Closing the loopholes available to corporations to keep from providing those first 2 things. 

Now in solving this issue other problems arise from childcare to what constitutes good healthcare. All of which need solved in order for the two original needs to be met.

Which all leads me back to...

WTF!!! How did we get into this bad of a situation.