Anyone else seeing various businesses offering freebies for so called “essential workers”, usually something like a cup of coffee or a sandwich?
If you’re law enforcement, or medical personnel, or military, show your id & get a free (whatever). Well, I’m medical personnel, and I’m done with it.
First time I saw the offer at a convenience market while putting gas in the car, I thought that’s nice; showed my id & got a coffee. Second time, also after getting gas, made the same coffee choice.
This morning I thought about one, but then thought what is it I’m doing that’s so special to earn one? How is my job choice any more special or valuable than any other? Many of these so called “nonessential businesses” give some benefit to someone and put food on the table for the owner.
Why is it right for me to grab a free food or coffee while someone whose small business is shuttered due to circumstances beyond their control may end up seeking assistance in a food bank? Someone else in one of those professions wants that freebie, have at it.
The whole designation of “essential” and “inessential” businesses reminds me of that famous line by George Orwell. We’re all equal, but some of us are more equal than others.
When I see a freebie for medical personnel during this time, I’m assuming they are targeting the ER workers and Covid-19 front-line staff, the people watching Covid-19 patients survive or die alone.
Could care less if a LEO or someone else grabs one, but I’m done.
Really. I think the small dance studio and my favorite gymnast’s so called nonessential businesses did more positive for the development of children in particular, and they’ve been shuttered due to circumstances beyond their control
oh please. stop with the histrionics. they’re doing their jobs. just like police do their jobs and fire fighters do theirs. just like the people stocking shelves at the grocery or the person checking you out. they’re jobs, people are doing them. they aren’t brave heroes, they aren’t special, they’re just people doing their jobs.
It’s sweet of them to offer these things, and, as private enterprises, they should feel free to make whatever special offers to whomever they please.
What fries my last nerve is the closure of generally small businesses not by the free market, as in not enough were interested in their products or services, but by state officials.
That small bookstore deemed inessential by some drone may have had some selections that helped a child get interested in reading. Classes in tumbling or dance may have helped anyone from a child needing to strengthen abdominal muscles to a Down’s syndrome child needing some muscle development, or increased short term memory from learning simple routines.
Just who is it who can say not what others want, but what they need?
