Downtown Minneapolis is very quiet. Trygve took us for our mid-day walk through much of the city, (Excurses: There are no ATMs accessible from a sidewalk in Minneapolis.) Restaurants, bars and coffee houses are closed by government mandate. Lights are on at Penny's Coffee shop across the street but there is no one there. What will all the employees do without their paycheck? How will the shop owners make their payments? etc., etc., etc.????????
Here I sit, only slightly inconvenienced. The dichotomy between having and having not rises starkly to the surface. Living wages, paid sick leave, income distribution so that the many do not have to live and the brink of insolvency, and other issues we often ignore finally get some notice.
The suffering unleashed by this pandemic staggers the imagination. In the face of such misery I find myself almost mute.
Takk for alt,
Al
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