{"id":806517,"date":"2020-04-17T14:38:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T20:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=381895"},"modified":"2020-04-17T14:38:06","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T20:38:06","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-we-were-walking-a-fine-line-before-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/letter-to-the-editor-we-were-walking-a-fine-line-before-the-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the editor: We were walking a fine line before the pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On Easter Sunday, a Biblical wrath boiled inside of me. Every time I hear someone say \u201cWe\u2019re all in this together,\u201d every time I see some poor worker at the supermarket risking his family\u2019s health to stave off starvation, every time I see some overwrought nurse sewing a face mask because her hospital was too profit driven to stockpile personal protective equipment, every time I see a CEO hunkered in his mansion while his employees work the front lines, I fight the rising bile.<\/p>\n

And I\u2019m doing OK. I won\u2019t starve. I have options. But many people don\u2019t. And I can\u2019t stop thinking: If I\u2019m having these hazardous urges, what are the more desperate and less restrained among us feeling? How long will they remain silent? How long can bread lines and billionaires exist at the same time? We were already way out of balance before the virus. Now, as we\u2019ve all been ordered to stay home, the little bit of cash that previously trickled down to the bottom has dried up. But the bills still come. The bilge pump is still running, desperately sucking for dollars from the bottom of the barrel. And soon, it will run dry.<\/p>\n

Then what? <\/p>\n

Can you really expect a father to let his children starve just to adhere to laws written by the privileged to allow them to hoard all the resources? Eventually, fear of starvation outweighs civility or fear of prison or blind pride in the flag flying over the whole mess. Then someone in the ruling class says something like, \u201cLet them eat cake,\u201d and it all descends into chaos and guillotines on the streets of Paris. <\/p>\n

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