Dying For the Dow

(Published on March 25 on Facebook)

If you can’t think of a way to get your head around the idea of Trump and the Republicans saying we’ve got to get the country opened back up by Easter, and who cares if people die? Grandparents should be willing to sacrifice themselves to save the stock market, CONSIDER THIS:

The London Blitz lasted over nine months, with the city (and other cities) being bombed nearly every night. There were over sixty thousand casualties, and St. Paul’s, Westminster Abbey, the Houses of Parliament, the Tower of London, Buckingham Palace, the Guildhall, and Big Ben were all damaged or destroyed.

Plus two million houses and tenements and tens of thousands of
businesses.

Suppose two weeks in, Churchill had said, “We can’t afford this. It’s terrible for the economy, and besides they’re destroying some of our best buildings. We’ve got to give Hitler what he wants? And who cares if the Jews and the handicapped and gays and the intelligentsia get killed, like they did in Poland and the Netherlands and France?
It’s a small price to pay?”

And don’t kid yourself, Hitler intended to kill them all. He drew up careful invasion plans, including lists of people he wanted to kill. They include, besides the King and Queen and their daughters, and, of course, Churchill,
all of Parliament
and Laurence Olivier
Virginia Woolf
Aldous Huxley
H.G. Wells
Paul Robeson
E.M. Forster
Sigmund Freud
Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of the Boy Scouts
Noel Coward
C.P.Snow
and dozens of artists, musicians, and scientists.

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This is not to say that these people were more important than the ordinary people who would have been killed, it’s just to remind you how much we could have lost.

The same is true of us. This virus doesn’t care if we’re Judi Dench or a spring break partier, a child (and yes, there are children dying) or Yo-Yo Ma. Or some person whose name we don’t know yet who will save the world during some future crisis.

And for those of you who are thinking old folks are the only ones at
risk, consider this. The following people are all over 60 and part of the at-risk group:
Paul McCartney
Stephen King
Harrison Ford
Michael Eric Dyson
Elton John
Margaret Atwood
Robert Redford
Denzel Washington
Bruce Springsteen
and probably someone you would be terribly upset to lose.

So fight this terrible, terrible idea.
Just like Churchill fought Hitler,
in the hills, on the beaches
on the landing grounds,
in the grocery stores and the nursery homes and the hospitals,

Defend our people, whatever the cost may be.

Stay well,
Connie Willis