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I posted on a softball Facebook board last week that I booked my PGF flights (we already have a premier bid). You would have thought I personally offended people.
Can I ask why people get SO mad when we look past this virus?
It's like we are offending people that we are planning for a future after the peak.
I’ll try not to get political ... I think it is important to realize the impacts of the virus are being felt almost universally, but the experience with it is not universal. Large portions of our population are still too far removed from the “hotspots” or any personal contact.
Unfortunately, the disgusting national reaction has forced people even further to the edges and away from rationale civility. “Looking beyond” can (incorrectly) be seen as being as obtuse as those who should have been working to prevent this.
Even more extreme, people in areas being hard hit could conceivably find it insensitive to be talking about spending thousands of dollars on traveling and softball — people who don’t know if they will still have a job, people who don’t know if they will have food in the pantry next week.
I‘m not chastising you, just trying to provide perspective. I agree that we need to find the steps we can to move forward, but we also need to have an understanding of what others are going through — something that is in short supply these days.