This was posted by the Washington State Department of Health. We believe it’s worth sharing.
If you have kids, maybe you’ve had a chance to develop your version of the “life’s not fair” speech. Here’s the public health version of it: There’s nothing fair about disease. Families in our state do not have equal access to medical care, or jobs, or food, or housing. And this puts some of our families at higher risk of getting sick, or losing income or even their homes as a result of a serious illness.
Even the way we fight the spread of COVID-19 isn’t fair — some of us are able to stay home and protect ourselves and our loved ones, but some of us have to go to work to provide medical care or keep our grocery stores open. Some kids have access to online learning and leftovers in the fridge, and some kids don’t.
And some of us will get COVID-19 while others won’t. Some of us will recover, and some of us won’t. Some of us will be able to help others in need and some of us will need help. There’s nothing fair about it, but at least we know we are all in this together.
WE’VE LOVED HEARING STORIES about Washingtonians finding creative ways to help people in their communities who are in need. We’ve heard about Facebook communities connecting people who can help with people who need food or groceries delivered.
A medical supply company donated their entire supply of personal protective equipment to local hospital emergency rooms. People are sewing masks in their own homes. Chefs and restaurants are turning their restaurants into community kitchens and providing meals to folks in need and to hard-working first responders. Artists are hosting virtual dance classes and live concerts online to keep us entertained.
People have found creative ways to help each other, share what they have and build community, all while staying home!
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All – Used to live in WA state, realized the day after I retired, the nuts had taken over the government and we moved far, far away. The nuts are still in charge, voted into power by the same nuts who wrote the piece I am commenting on. WAKE UP
No where, Not in the bible, not in the constitution, not written anyplace I have ever seen, nor stated in any other country, nowhere is it written. LIFE IS FAIR. Get over it, life is never going to be fair, at best a crapshoot. You make your life the best you can, so WA wake up. Did those folks in the nursing home every smoke, were they ever drug addicts, did they because of their lifestyle, have compromised immune systems? Or, like everyone of us, if lucky just get old and worn out? It’s not access to medical care, it has more to do with how you lived your life, and the choices you made during those years, what medical conditions you are now under. I want to remind all, Italy has socialized medicine, France, the UK, many countries in Europe, they are not doing one iota better than we are. No one bit. If you think we as humans can make life fair, you live in a dream land, and need your own planet.