Although I do agree with this headline, her forgiveness of one another doesn’t account for the lives lost, the jobs lost, the businesses destroyed, livelihoods, addictions, suicides, shaming to extremes I’ve never seen in my lifetime, and the outright denial, nor accountability from those that led us into this.

This was a MAJOR setback and saying, ‘I didn’t know’ was the same thing that the German’s in WWII said when it happened to the Jews. It wasn’t that they ‘didn’t know’, it was that they didn’t care to know. They didn’t care to look into it because they, themselves might get persecuted. The truth was always out there. Just like today

She ends the article by saying that ‘The standard saying is that those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.’ I agree with this statement as well… unfortunately, most people never looked back in history to see that this had been done before, and before that, and before that. We’ve been warned that something like this would happen by President Eisenhower in 1961. I’ll let you do the research on that one. Again, unfortunately, most of you won’t.

I pray that we all learned something from this.

I pray that we CAN actually grow from this.

I want to leave you with this…

We are all mirrors of each other. When we are ‘against’ someone else we are really ‘against’ ourselves. Do unto others as you would have done unto you. That statement summerize it all.

Here is the link to the article so you can read this yourself.

Covid Response Forgiveness

Article written on globalcitizen.org

1. The world’s 10 richest men more than doubled their fortunes during COVID-19

The world’s 10 richest people (yep, they’re all men) more than doubled their fortunes from $700 billion to $1.5 trillion — at a rate of $15,000 per second or $1.3 billion a day — during the first two years of the pandemic.

According to Forbes figures cited by Oxfam, those men are: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Bernard Arnault and family, Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Ballmer, and Warren Buffet.

2. If they lost 99.999% of their wealth tomorrow, they would still be richer than 99% of all the people on the planet

According to Oxfam International’s Executive Director Gabriela Bucher, if these 10 men were to lose 99.999% of their wealth right now, they would still be richer than 99% of all the people on the planet.

In fact, a 99% windfall tax on the wealth they’ve gained since the start of the pandemic could pay to make enough vaccines for the entire world, help fight climate change, and address universal health care and gender-based violence, while still leaving these men $8 billion better off than they were before the pandemic.3. They now have 6 times more wealth than the poorest 3.1 billion people

The 10 richest men in the world own more than the poorest 3.1 billion people. In fact, they have six times more wealth.

4. The incomes of 99% of humanity fell because of COVID-19

As a result of the pandemic, 99% of the world’s population are worse off because of lockdowns, lower international trade, less international tourism, and other factors.

5. 160 million more people have been forced into poverty

It is estimated that 160 million more people were living below the poverty line — defined by the World Bank as living on less than $5.50 (£4.02) in upper-middle-income countries — than would have been without the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.6. A new billionaire was minted every 26 hours since the pandemic began

The world’s small elite of 2,755 billionaires has seen its fortunes grow more during COVID-19 than they have in the whole of the last 14 years — 14 years that themselves were a bonanza for billionaire wealth. This is the biggest annual increase in billionaire wealth since records began.

7. Inequality contributes to the death of 1 person every 4 seconds

A lack of access to health care, gender-based violence, hunger, and climate collapse is contributing to the death of at least 21,000 people each day, or one person every four seconds. What’s even worse? Oxfam says that’s a conservative finding.