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The COVID-19 pandemic has reached and exposed forgotten corners of our society, some of those corners dark and unpleasant. One such corner involves the welfare and health of individuals in our prisons, both those awaiting trial and those found guilty.
Should we ever let people die? That is, when reasonable efforts and not unreasonable expenses would save a life should we ever send an individual to their death? Never is a difficult standard, here as everywhere, as we send young people to war, remove dying and incurable patients from life-support, and, in the workplace, construct tunnels and buildings and open mining operations with the near certainty that significant numbers of workers will die in the effort.
We Americans take pride in our freedom. No one can take that from us. Is that true? What about a bug with the name of COVID-19, the coronavirus? What about every mayor, governor or health commissioner in the United States? Could any or all of them put us in a lockdown, the term generally associated with inmates in a prison, to be let out when, if and in a manner they determine? Does the common welfare (health) override somehow all of our rights: no speech, shopping, worship or walking the dog? Perhaps no voting (that later).
This is a story about equality, about justice and, ultimately, about democracy. It is about the historic struggle to create the kind of nation that America professes to be. But, as frequently happens, those with power have made every effort to bend the moral arc of the universe, in Martin Luther King’s Jr. famous statement, away from justice – not towards it.
Russia is attempting to have a say in the geopolitical realignment of the Middle East, provoked by instability, sectarianism and Iran-Saudi rivalry. It has been able to simultaneously support conflicted parties and project itself as a force of stability.
Israel went three times to general elections in a period of eleven months and may go shortly to another one-crazy? Maybe, but still, a situation that can be explained and hopefully also be resolved.
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