*Here I am. Fighting to regain my good health. Doing whatever modern medicine dictates must be done, inclusive of quarantining for going on two years as lung cancer, which has left me with one healthy lung, causes me to continue to be extraordinarily cautious of catching anything air born, even so much as the common cold.
And over these past two years, I’ve had lots of time to consider that which makes no sense when a stubborn mindset adopted by millions becomes so closed minded as to place loved ones at risk of dying on respirators in intensive care units, no visitors allowed during final hours for fear of how contagious the Delta variant of this virus proves to be.
Though many decisions that people make are not based in common sense, denying the death threat of Covid, hanging over everyone’s heads when vaccinations have been free, readily available and are now fully approved by the FCC, carries us way beyond frustration when contemplating the fact that millions of parents are acting as if they care nothing for the safety of their children much less for the public welfare.
Just as laws were enacted against speeding to stop people from willfully hurting, maiming or killing each other in cars, it’s high time for a state of national emergency to mandate masks, especially in schools (as well as vaccinations when the vaccine is approved for children). Seriously, if parents do not provide for the safekeeping of their children by masking up, themselves, then our President, whose primary responsibility is national safety, must provide our offspring and their playmates with safe passage during hours spent in school, most especially when unmasked parents prove to be amongst those who are spreading this deadly virus while wrongly ranting that their personal rights are being violated when deeper truth clearly holds fast to the fact that their reprehensible attitudes and behaviors are directly responsible for the up surging nature of Covid’s death toll, again. In fact, perhaps if a bell rang throughout the land each time Covid claimed another life, unmasked citizens would awaken to the part they play in not masking up.
As ‘enough is enough’ is way past due, it’s time for millions of masked citizens to rise up to declare that the Federal government’s intervention is necessary, being that too many state officials, acting like puppets on strings (remaining as immature as their unmasked constituents), cannot be relied upon to decide the fate of millions who, having masked up, are healthy, today, but may find themselves amongst those unfortunate souls, who will be hospitalized with Covid if nothing is done to create change for the better, across the nation, once and for all.
Seriously—isn’t this ‘near and present danger’, which has continued to kill more Americans than those lost to war, the very reason why need for a Federal Government with a Presidential state of emergency to preempt Congress and state governments was established in the first place? 👩🏻Annie
