Total Destruction only solution? The irrational idiocy of the state

For the past couple months I have been consistently writing a weekly blog on a Sunday morning with a nice hot cup of coffee. I would think of a health subject matter and the blog would write itself based on my experiences working in the fitness industry.

This Sunday however, the material is not flowing as easily. This Sunday, I am hours in, on the announcement from Trinidad and Tobago's government that we are at the first stage of many restrictions to come. It may not have been said that more restrictions are coming but if you believe that, I suggest you pull your head out of the sand, (cause from tomorrow you are banned from the beaches) take a breath and by your own experience of the first shutdown, take a look at the inevitable that's underway.

This is just the beginning and what a starting point! We have already seen businesses closed down and many, maybe even ourselves, are out of work.

We barely came up for air and the colossal wave that's coming to finish off the job, is rapidly approaching.

I am not talking about the destruction that covid itself will bring, but a far scarier and far more destructive force is on the way.

The social and economical crisis, to anyone with more than two brain cells on speaking terms with each other could rationalise, that a virus which is at high risk to a very small population is not even close to the threat of violence and death that's coming to the entire nation, is incomparable.

The last time I checked, the wealth sits with one percent of this nation. They can kick back at home for a couple months sipping daytime magaritas, enjoying some downtime away from their offices and employees (the ones they have not let go) while 99% of the nation face the primal needs and means for survival. Survival, when faced with death and suffering, comes at any costs. Think about that for a second.

Think about the harder fight. Covid, or an armed bandit with absolutely nothing to lose because he has already lost it all?

This by no means is me downplaying the seriousness of covid and saying a big hard luck to the elderly and immune compromised. There are elderly and immune compromised people in my life whom I love and would not want to see suffer the fate of a painful covid death. It is the responsibility of the family to do everything in their power to keep them safe by following all the sanitary guidelines.

Unfortunately though, there is that very hard philosophical question that we HAVE to face. You may have heard different variations of the question but it basically translates to do you save the one person on the train track or the train full of people? The train is on path to crush the person stuck on the tracks but in bringing it to a sudden halt, the train can slide off and over the mountain killing everyone inside.

I may come off insensitive to some by raising all of this but the fact is, the time to make the right decisions has already passed us by. We can fight tooth and nail from here on to rebuild but the government is about to halt any possibility of that happening.

10 people have died from covid this far. Of that 10, how many represent the majority of our population? How many had serious preexisting ailments? The argument is to flatten the curve for hospitals. Why are we flooding the hospitals with people who can quarantine at home rather than keeping only the few who are at high risk? And this isn't just coming from me. A friend of mine who is an actual doctor that works at a government hospital has raised this concern. There are many who are draining the resources out of fear rather than necessity.

How do you see over 90% of the population coping without food for them and their family's?

The despair, mental anguish, anger, resentment,desperation and primal need for survival will be far more devastating than the covid virus.

I am not a doctor nor an economist. Just someone who has been thinking of all the variables.

My heart goes out to everyone struggling in these really devastating times.

Buckle up, because it's about to get messy