13. DAILY MUSINGS DURING PANDEMIC COVID 19 -- WILL TO DO WHAT MUST BE DONE

3.29.20  I read today that temporary field hospitals are being created in sports stadiums, arenas, and large tent facilities on community soccer fields.  It's a new world.  I'm amazed at the skill and ingenuity to make this happen so quickly.  Maybe I haven't lost faith in humanity after all.

But I grieve that it takes a pandemic to create the will to do great things and to look out for each other.  I wish this steely will would extend to addressing gun violence deaths, climate change action, addressing the lives at risk due to obesity and sedentary lifestyles (leading to heart attack, stroke, diabetes and other illnesses), humane immigration policies, criminal justice reform, all the "isms" and on and on...

A pandemic got our attention, but suffering and death are not new phenomena.  Just sayin'.

At least, that's the view from here...©

PHOTO CREDIT:  Lester Black, Seattle PI