https://redriverhealth.com/the-final-covid-surge-and-our-common-purpose/ Fri, 05 Feb 2021 17:10:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://redriverhealth.com/the-final-covid-surge-and-our-common-purpose/#comment-230 Fri, 05 Feb 2021 17:10:36 +0000 https://redriverhealth.com/?p=1273#comment-230 Well said Robert! I agree on the comparisons you made between the film about WWII and this pandemic. That time and the people were “the greatest generation!” Everyone came together on the common cause back then. Everyone sacrificed something and willingly did it!
My own father and his 2 brothers were all in WWII. Which means my grandmother (their mother) had all her children, all three sons in the war! Talk about sacrifice! My Dad was on a destroyer in the Pacific around Iwo Jima and saw the horrors of war! His youngest brother made the ultimate sacrifice and was blown up in a foxhole in Germany. He was only 19 yrs old! I can only imagine what my grandparents went through!
So to ask everyone one of us to wear a mask, social distance, wash your hands is little to ask of us! To have to skip that vacation this year to protect yourself and others is little to sacrifice! We have become such a self-centered nation, sometimes it’s beyond belief! Most people are so protected from this, they don’t even know what’s going on in their own city! The sacrificing all the doctors and nurses are making everyday! Other frontline workers too! They all have families of some sort!
Then the numbers of deaths we see everyday…..it is horrifyingly unreal! They are not just numbers…..they are souls, each with a story to tell! So I hope we can come together in this life and death fight and really realize that there is nothing we can’t do when we have that common purpose and put it into action!

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