When This Ends…

When this ends, when will it end? It has to end, because what goes up must come down, remember? Even Newtonian laws have to apply right? For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. It’s true, is it not? But what about the maxim, is it the darkest before the dawn? Oh and how dark it has been!

At a time of paranoia on states possessing nuclear weapons, here is a tiny microcosm that has proven more destructive than conventional weapons in recent times. It’s as concealed as nuclear weapons, except it can’t be seen at all. It’s fired without warning and is more relentless in its attacks. It knows not visas and borders, can’t be kept out by walls and economic nationalism. It doesn’t understand xenophobia towards immigrants and does not distinguish in race, class, nationality or ethnicity in its attacks. It has been ageist though, taking more lives of the elderly. It can’t be shut out by protests or elections or does not necessarily go away with seasons.

It created problems but didn’t necessarily create new ones. It merely accentuated and exacerbated the wide-open fissures in the system. America has long had a sclerotic political system that was bickering on healthcare. And my oh my, did COVID-19 bring in the discourse needed for an overhaul of the healthcare system. It showed us an apathetic political class globally, that has failed to act on income inequality or solve the minimum…