Over the past few weeks, I've noticed a growing number of social media posts discussing the fact that the poster had a family member who had died recently and expressing sadness that they were unable to be with them. The other thing I'm seeing is people who are being forced to limit attendance at funerals or to forgo or postpone funerals already.
I suspect that as these people watch the news and see thousands of people gather with impunity, that they are asking themselves something like "Why isn't my loved one important enough to die with family present, or to mourn together?".
I further wonder what the Jewish congregations in NYC thing as DiBlasio sends cops to prevent them from holding services, while thousands gather to protest, riot, and loot.
it's becoming more and more clear that the Covid reaction was an overreaction, and that any semblance of justification for social distancing or limiting numbers of gatherings, is a joke.
I feel sorry for the small business owners whose life's work has been severely damaged or destroyed, and for those whose loved ones have had to die alone, all based on really bad science.
6 comments:
I'm right there with ya!
Thanks,
As someone who's lost 4 parents and a sibling at relatively young ages, I understand how people are going to feel devalued by these inconsistent applications of the social distancing mandates.
I realize that it's a heathen and bizarre concept to base empathy in shared experiences, but it's true, I do empathize with people who have lost family members and with how different people grieve. Since loss of family members pretty much crosses every possible demographic line, it seems a pretty universal experience.
Of course, being an asshole and not empathizing with people who've been denied the ability to be with family members at death, isn't universal. It takes some work to dump that much humanity.
feo's a Christian. Can't ya tell?
Clearly it’s his Christlike demeanor and grace filled attitude that tells everyone that his faith is strong.
Certainly Jesus was well known for making negative assumptions about people and expect expressing those in expletive filled rants.
Jesus would be all about denying people the ability to gather to celebrate/mourn their loved ones.
I find this obsession with making this thread a divisive racial discussion to be frankly unhinged. There is nothing in my original post which touches on race or indicates that some races deserve to gather with their loved ones and others don't.
It does point out that certain religious groups are being singled out and having their gatherings limited, while mobs fill the streets of NYC.
But, the left isn't nearly as committed to calling out anti Semitism as it is to other things.
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