Covid-19 Won't Leave On Its Own! - a podcast by Tony Rush

Covid-19 Won’t leave on its own.

What’s up everybody Thanks for continuing to support the show. Also thank you in advance for continuing to spread the word about the rush on life. Just a quick programming note. We will be taking the show on the road and broadcasting from an undisclosed location later on this week. 
 No matter what you are hearing on television or throughout social media Covid-19 won’t leave on it’s own. We the people have to put aside our political differences and conspiracy theories and accept the truth that this Corona Virus is here to stay for a while. The reopening up process has been a disaster.
Yes some folks went back to work. Yes some businesses were able to resuscitate their livelihood. But at what cost? Agent Orange is trying to wish the Virus away and blame others but he cannot simply tweet his way to a vaccine.
 People are dying. People are getting infected at an alarming rate. And while the pandemic has pulled back the curtain and forced America to see that the healthcare system as it is presently constructed is indeed a part of the systemic racism that continues to erode the foundation of our democracy.
Yes far too many of our Black and Brown citizens have been dealing with the underlying conditions that infection may lead to death. However the aforementioned factors are not the only reason Blacks and Browns are dying from Covid-19 at a much higher rate than their white counter parts.
Poverty, inhumane living conditions, Limited and inadequate access to quality healthcare which is affordable for impoverished communities of color contribute greatly to the disproportionate amount of Blacks and Browns who are loosing their battle to covid-19 at a significantly higher rate than whites.
Covid-19 doesn’t care what the color of your skin is but our society does. And while the color of your skin is not the only consideration, but it is a determining factor as it relates to the type of care one may or may not receive.
Long before Covid-19 arrived minorities were and still are mistreated by our healthcare systems as a whole.
(Edith Isabel Rodriguez February 1, 1964 – May 9, 2007  Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital Los Angeles)

 Esmin Green, who died on Brooklyn hospital floor Kings County Hospital, perished from sitting June 19th 2008

So yes we need to take better care of ourselves. Wash your hands, Wear your mask. Practice social distancing when possible. Take care of one another.

Until next time Peace and Love.

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