Tomorrow
Tomorrow, we must eat. We must work. We must travel. We must come out of the cave and look at the real world.
Tomorrow...we must return to "normal".
But, for today, we must be patient.
We see the shadows dancing on the walls and we know the dangerous enemy waits outside our doors. The real world is very scary.
Sooner or later, people are going to have to return to work. People cannot survive without working. They have bills to pay and children to feed. If they cannot find work, the government will need to create work for them. Our country cannot survive without our people working. It is an immediate necessity.
When they do return, their protections against the coronavirus should be 100% guaranteed, at least as much as humanly possible. They should not be required to put their lives on the line without any protection.
Before they return, all safety precautions should be taken and each and every employer should guarantee total health coverage to any employee, and his family, that might come down with the virus. That should be a right to every American employee. It is a tragedy that it has taken something like this epidemic to open our eyes to the health needs of our country. Workers need to return to work as soon as it is deemed safe to do so. Then, only with the guarantees that they will be protected from this deadly virus.
It is up to the Congress to figure out the best way to accomplish that. In my opinion, their next piece of legislation, when they return from their homes, should be to assist small businesses, with less than 100 employees, in their cost of acquiring insurance for these employees. This should have already been the law. It is unfortunate that it has taken a crisis of this magnitude to come to this realization.
It is clear that in our capitalist system, business cannot survive without its laborers, and labor cannot survive without their jobs. That is the system we have created. We go to war with the workers we have.
Until they do return, the new legislation should provide basic requirements for food and shelter, perhaps in the form of a monthly guaranteed income? The people will need a government that works and a leader that is able to empathize with their situations.
This will be something the Congress needs to address as soon as they return to Washington. Hopefully that will be soon. The workers cannot hold on forever. The reality must change.
At some time, we must emerge from the cave and challenge the shadows that have become our reality.
From our perspective today, the world has changed.
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