Cahir joins Ed to discuss an upcoming meeting focusing on transportation issues across the state during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Meanwhile, Ed has rearranged his home studio!
Ed also received an interesting email regarding reopening the country:
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Just read this from a Reopen Washington group post:
Why reopen our Country?
I was reading some posts for and against reopening the country. One was talking about being selfish and it got me to thinking.
There are those wanting to reopen yet they’re being classified as selfish. There are those healthy people who rely on all kinds of people to supply them while they sit safe at home for the foreseeable future. Isn’t that being selfish too?
You expect your garbage to be picked up, you expect the grocery store to be open so you can get milk, you expect truck drivers to supply the stores, you expect farmers, meatpackers, fruit and vegetable pickers all to keep food in that grocery store.
You expect Amazon to still ship all the things you’re ordering while you sit at home shopping. You expect the delivery driver to leave it on your doorstep. You expect your phone to work, your power to stay on, and your mail to show up rain, sleet, or shine. And most important, you expect the doctors and nurses to be there if you need them although many of them across the country have been furloughed because their units and services have been shut down while the entire system focuses only on COVID19.
The whole premise of shelter in place is based on the arrogant idea that others must risk their health so you can protect yours. There is nothing virtuous about ignoring the largely invisible army required to allow people to shelter in place.
I know there are some of you may be screaming mad about what I just said but stop and really think about what is allowing you to stay safe in your home.
I truly believe that with some common sense on my part, I could easily go back to life as it was. I want to go to restaurants, I want to shop at the little store just up the road.
And yes, I could catch COVID-19. I could also catch the flu or a cold. I could get run over by a bus. I could get struck by lightning. We take risks everyday. If you choose to stay home, that is absolutely your choice. And please don’t start screaming at me about how I’ll just spread it. Why are you worried? You won’t get it because you’re staying in your home. Are you going to shelter in place every time a new strand of the flu happens?
The entire purpose of the shelter-in-place idea was to let the healthcare system to prepare and to flatten the curve. It was not to eradicate the virus (impossible).
Our economy can’t withstand much more of this. If our economy collapses, so will the rest of the world’s. If that happens, you will see the rise of tyrants.
So stay home if you want, but please do the rest of us hard-working legal Americans a huge and deserving favor-Please do not ask or expect for us to continue to work to pay your bills or feed your family, you figure out a magical & mystical way to do that on your own!!!