QUESTIONS?
The skies look the same, the ground beneath it seems unchanged. The roads remain filled with cars, and the pavements alongside it reside under the steps of pedestrians. It is true that we are seeing more and more masks spread across the face of the populace. We may also witness an increasing number of boarded-up shops, deemed unessential businesses by the government. Unessential to whom is a question that lingers in the air we breath. Unfortunately, it is a question that blends itself within the myriad of interrogations, frustrations, despair, (misplaced?) optimism, that currently circulate around society.
Well, for all I know these may be the kind of questions that only I ask myself. Perhaps I shouldn’t question why multinational companies and their services are deemed essential. I wonder why certain activities that are overwhelmingly undertaken by aristocrats and their wanna-be understudies are deemed permissible when new restrictions are put in place. I question a society in which it is criminal to meet with an acquaintance outside for a coffee, but it isn’t to mount a horse and hunt innocent animals with 29 other people. These could be questions that one does not ask if one does not wish to know the answer.
However, I can’t help but have many questions. So here they are:
- How did the 7th richest nation on earth fail to provide PPE to it’s medical staff?
- How did this same nation allow 100,000 (and counting) deaths to happen?
- Why did this government deem free-school meals for the poorest…