We are all Essential

All Business are Essential

Let me remind us all that the First Amendment and The Constitution are still vital and in effect.  While we’re at it, let’s all review The Supremacy Clause, as well.   Having written all that, I’m writing on a blog that not many read.  I don’t and won’t read an self righteous crap spewed out by self righteous lemmings.

We survive in this insanity, my family and I, but for how long?  I began a small business November 30^th, and our income is very, very modest.  I have really no other income of my own, just savings, and they are modest.  We have been shut down; non profit educational museums are not essential, declaims our governor, a billionaire who runs a hotel chain with dozens of houses of his own.  Of course, at one point he deemed his toilets were not essential, so there you are.

My husband has been deemed “essential”, so he can work.  My son can do curbside deliveries at his work place, but he works in a different state. We also are caregivers for an elderly relative who lives with us.  I’ve been a caregiver of some kind for over 14 years.  For two years, I was my dad’s caregiver, during his last illness.  I did it while I also dealt with my uncle in California.  We had simultaneous nightmares.  Please, as someone who did a lot of malpractice cases in her former life, and who watched her family suffered horridly because of medical incompetence, don’t ask me to praise health care.   My family is military on both sides; everyone one knew in each war what he was getting into.  Same for those in health care, the new CYA, damned with the patient, especially the elderly.  We knew in law, teaching, and small business what we were getting into.  Yet, all of what we do builds our economy; we all contribute.  We are all essential.  I’ve read everything, talked to scientists, listened to doctors, you name it.

The fact remains is, we may all well lose everything, and not to a virus.  The fact also remains that we in service professions, medical, firefighting, criminal justice, law, counseling, teaching, need to get over ourselves and realize that while we provide a service, while we may risk our lives, safety, and livelihood, we also profit over other people’s misery.  Sometimes, with all good intentions, we make that misery worse.  I saw that with Bad Sam, where my uncle died because of a blotched procedure, one of many.  The last one I was against, and it was a surgical procedure performed by an osteopath, not an MD.   When I protested, one, a two bit, two day resident, threatened me, and got in bed with a bogus social worker.  Hippa was violated, and my uncle died.  We were all kept in the dark.  It was close to two years ago, and I should let it go, but I’ve almost no one left in my family, now.

The fact also remains that no one is perfect, but some of us are arrogant enough to think we are.  I don’t’ want to say money is the root of all good, like Ayn Rand, but I am deadline driven, and I need dates and structure.  When will this self imposed misery end? 

I keep busy; I write everyday, handle the household financial affairs, take care of my aunt, manage her caregivers, watchover my museum and maintain its collections, read, cook, really what I did before, except now, I’m told where I can and can’t go.  I don’t’ like that.  We are being treated like dictatorship, like the one’s my family survived in Europe during World War II, the Fascists, Nazis, and Communists.  

I respect authority, but group punishment never works.  Do the numbers, straighten out the stimulus packages and grants no one seems to be getting.  Populations descending into tyranny and poverty only breed more illness and secrecy.  Use the drugs we have; SARS was worse, we made it through.  Reform the health care system and try to follow HIPPAA.

Above all, try to keep your sanity.  These are my opinions; please don’t virtually rant because I’ll just block and delete.  No comments needed, be safe, but please let’s go back to common sense caution and not lionize certain people for doing their jobs.

W