#weprotectthevulnerable

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Day 2 - 3-21-2020

My name is Nick and I just turned 33 years old. I currently live at my parents house.

This morning I hid my parent's keys.

I respect my parents right to make their own decisions, that is not what this is about.

My Mom is 59 years old and works as a nurse. Since she works in an industry that won't be shut down by the government self quarantine, she still has a job to go to.

She takes immuno-suppressents for her rheumatoid arthritis. Effectively, she has no immune system. If she were to contract COVID-19, the likelihood of her surviving would be very low. She will die if she gets COVID-19.☠

My Dad is 60, and although somewhat healthy, he is also at higher risk of dying if he caught the virus. The other weekend he got a flu shot and his temperature went up and we found out he had an infection. He was started on a course of anti biotics, and is recovering from the bacterial infection.

Both my parents could die if they got COVID-19.

That would mean:

No more seeing them in the morning.

No more hearing stories from my dad about his day babysitting my nephew.

No more watching undercover boss together.

No more family pictures with my parents in them.

No more talking, no more hugs, no more seeing their faces, no more begrudgingly having my mom help me do something I can do for myself while saying "I will always be you Mom". 😥

No more mom.

COVID-19 can be handled if people choose to do what's in the best interest of the most vulnerable among us.

I got into an argument via text earlier with brother and sister in our family group chat about hiding my parents keys to protect them from themselves.

Corona virus is spreading in the United States and it is killing people. It is spreading because people are doing so many unnecessary things that they need not do. Going to the store to stock up on perishables, hoarding toilet paper, eating at fast food restaurants.

There was even a guy who, in anticipation of COVID-19, went out to stores in advance and bought up all the purell and hand sanitizer, so that he could sell it overpriced on Amazon.

This isn't a game. This is not an opportunity to make money by creating shortages of supplies that can help keep people safe in order to sell those items at a much higher price. That is not capitalism. That is just wrong. Amazon stepped in and stopped him from selling it online which is good. But that mentality of "I can make money at the expense of other people's health and well being" is horrible.

I am also a tutor. Speaking with one of my students, I joked around about the shortage of toilet paper and how crazy it was that people were buying so much, and he said that his family didn't have any. 🤯

What happened in the world that there should be a shortage of toilet paper?

This is craziness. If everyone just bought what they needed, then we would not have run out of toilet paper.

The CORONA VIRUS is just like the Sars virus.

The world will not end from COVID-19. PEOPLE HAVE DIED AND WILL DIE from the Corona Virus. How many in America really depends on how well Americans take up the challenge of doing what's best for their neighbor.

Yes. We have the right to go out with a contagious virus and cough on all the fruits and vegetables at the store. The question is: having that right to live freely, and as a circumstance, the right to contaminate food, is it really in everyone's best interest, including your own, if you exercise that right?

The weak and vulnerable do not have a choice on whether they live or die if stronger healthier people are going to rub COVID-19 in their faces.

This is about loving eachother and doing what is best for everybody, by putting aside our own egos.

ITS ONLY A FEW WEEKS PEOPLE!

What you do now will determine how many people will be alive at the end of this.

And the end is only a few weeks.

Only a few weeks.

Only a few weeks.

Can you stay inside and make do best you can with what you have and only leave when necessary so that others who are weaker and more vulnetable than yourself don't die?

Love your neighbor, as you would love yourself.

Sub Ek - It's all one.