Isn’t it interesting that the people capitalism values the least are the ones that when the shit hits the fan we value the most! Thank you for your leadership, humility, authenticity, inspiration, love and above all courage:
Tom the 99 year old veteran and all like him who gave their best years so we could live ours
NHS staff who from top to bottom are not paid enough to risk their lives as they are today
Carers who love those and protect those we have chosen not to care for ourselves who in societies opinion have passed their sell by date and can no longer feed the machine or add to the profits of others
Drivers; who are delivering the PPE, food and medicines that keep the wheels turning.
Emergency responders - keeping us safe, secure and saving lives whilst being spat at by idiots who cannot follow simple guidelines.
Teachers; perhaps we will complains less about you now we realise just what a little shit Johnny can be and how much patience you have to put up with him every day.
Refuse collectors; stopping the streets filling up with the rotting waste that some of us can remember from the past.
Volunteers; supporting the community hubs, delivering food and medicine; manning temporary mortuaries and hospitals, augmenting emergency response, covering for sickness and absense. Asking for nothing in return whilst others complain they have to work and get paid 100% of their salary whilst others are getting 80% for doing nothing!
Shop staff; risking their own health to make sure you can still put food on the table. I still feel a visit to the supermarket is the most dangerous task of a week given how some behave.
Migrant workers coming back to Britain to bring in the crops because we can’t or won’t do it ourselves! Grateful to be exploited with less than minimum wage because it is still better than what they can earn at home doing those jobs many think they are too good for or too much like hard work.
Good neighbours just doing the right thing and checking the vulnerable or shielded person next door is ok
Farmers - working their backsides off long hours 7 days a week to get the food in the supermarket and be paid a pittance compared to the high street sale price massively marked up by Tesco’s and Sainsbury’s et al.
All of them continue to put themselves at risk on our behalf every day yet how did we judge these people before COVID19? How should we judge them after? What a great opportunity this has given us all to reflect; re-think and recognise what is truly important. Is the highly paid footballer, tv personality or banker the person we should aspire our children to be? If whilst home schooling we can teach the next generation the value of community; of service; of humility; honest hard work, nature, environment and family then perhaps we have a chance to change this world for the better.
Finally Covid-19 has, for many, put in perspective what is important in our own lives. Time spent together is precious. Away from the distraction or excuse of keeping busy we slow down, we connect at a deeper level and reset what is really, truly, deeply important to us as human beings. It is meaning, connection and love.
Each day H I have speculated on where you are? How you are and who you are? Not knowing is the worst thing. If you were dead I would not know. If you were lost, alone, suffering, frightened I would not know. What I do know is how important you, your happiness and your life are to me. With the work I am doing currently, I am only too aware of the risks and the longer term implications for us all but most significantly for your generation going forward. Just know I am here to help, or just to listen. Stay safe LHBH.x
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