Time to Lead

I can’t believe we are still debating the best way to handle the pandemic. We’re coming up to our second year in and we just prepped the Butterdome to serve as a field hospital. The time to debate is over, we need to act.

Whether or not you agree with this government’s approach to curbing the infection rate while simultaneously keeping the economy rolling, is irrelevant. It does not matter what plan that is put into place if we do not follow it. What we know beyond any reasonable doubt is that the everyman for himself approach is not working. We need to work together.

Triaging the situation tells me that your life has greater value than my business. Therefore I am going to do whatever it takes to save as many lives as possible and hope like heck I still have a business at the end of this pandemic. It also means that I am not going to join in on all the lobbying to get martial arts schools open just because the hair salons and tattoo parlours were already able to successfully prey upon this government’s weaknesses to get themselves back in business at a time when our hospitals are overflowing and our healthcare workers are burning out.

What is more important right now, the economy or your fellow man’s life?

“Money often costs too much.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)