Angels and Demons

It is interesting to look at the way the world is slowly evolving to deal with life during the beginning of this pandemic.

First they asked people to stay in if they could.

Then they closed the schools followed closely by restaurants and bars.

Now our regional airport has let most personnel go except for security and a few necessary employees who deal with any incoming or outgoing passengers here.

Nursing homes have a no visitor rule, so people are becoming creative and skyping, or coming to windows and talking on their phones through the glass.

The hospitals are limiting surgeries and admissions to those absolutely necessary. They have closed their gift shops and are limiting any visitors to a rare exception like hospice.

One school unit's buses are delivering meals to kids who would go hungry without school meals.

Local businesses have provided food at given places around town for other children 18 and under.

Another business provided a hundred furnished apartments for students who cannot go home when the universities closed.

People are applying for unemployment and a few people who are entertainers are finding ways to use their home quarantine to continue making a small amount of money in donations from fans via Facebook Live.

Zoos and closed public aquariums are showcasing their animals for our entertainment and accepting donations to help subsidize lost revenue.

Most of the people in the world seem to be trying to help each other out and make do. In other words, they are exhibiting what Margaret Meade called "Civilization" or civilized behavior.

Of course there are always the few low lifes who jump in to take advantage of everyone else. Senators who sold stock before news of the virus spread. Men who bought up all the hand sanitizer so they could sell it at usurious prices to people wanting to live. People hoarding things they don't really need just to be sure no one else gets them, sometimes to take advantage of selling them at high prices and sometimes just because they can.  A United States President who tried to buy up the rights to a vaccine so other countries would not have any.

Our true colors never shine brighter than in times of crisis.