Exactly.
Spent about a year and a half as a Red Cross volunteer at Walter Reed during Desert Storm on ward 52, the amputation ward.
For the past 3 years I've been involved in a group that volunteers once a month bring lunch to the W.R. staff, patients and their families on Saturday's when the cafeteria is closed.
My respect for our first responders is through the roof and then some, on steroids.
For the first time in 30 years, our annual ride to support/donate for the WV VA hospital is cancelled, due to “Covid”.
Apparently it can fly fast enough to infect a couple thousand bikers on an interstate.
The money we raise every year [average, couple hundred thou] pays for their “non essentials”, like soap, toothpaste, underwear, etc.
But a couple thousand looters rubbing all over each other is *just fine*.
[thank you for your service]
TN makes me sick
https://twitter.com/The_Norse_Man/status/1267914072885989383
Addendum:
Every year, we ride, even through pouring rain and cold.
WE RIDE.
But Covid...nope.
Got shut down.