Not everyone trains to be a hero. After Medical staff, police, rescue workers, soldiers, are the average person who work for very little pay and cannot risk being sick. And yet these are the front line workers who continue providing you services and access to supply who are often overlooked.
They work because they need to. They have bills and family to care for. They are terrified of getting sick and dying or suffering this upon any member of their family and friends. They have the opportunity to stay home and wait it out, take a government handout to cover some of their bills and return to work at whatever job is available when it is safe to do so.
Yet, the leave the safety of their homes to go to a workplace exposing them to coronavirus, SARS and COVID 19 to do a job that NOBODY expects them to do, but a job that everybody NEEDS them to do.
While everyone applauds the Doctors and Nurses and hospital staff, remember that this is what they were trained to do, it is what they are EXPECTED to do. I expect a nurse to risk her health for mine, I expect a doctor expose himself to risk to save me as much as I expect a fireman to race into a burning building to save my life or a soldier to take a bullet meant for me. I appreciate it, absolutely, but this is their job. It's the downside of the job that they do.
A grocery clerk never signed up to be put in harms way just so you can horde toilet paper.
Try to remember that the next time you encounter these unsung heroes.
