Thread by @yaneerbaryam

I have lost my mother to COVID.

May her light shine bright forever in the places that truly matter.

Western society is uncaring. The society is self-destructing.

I watched the loss of compassion build over decades, recognized its danger, was appalled, as well as afraid of its consequences for my family. I built around us the best protection I could. People who care. A black market in compassion.

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I learned to navigate the system to find individuals who would go around the system to find ways to help others.

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I wondered where to escape to.


My mother was born in Jerusalem and I wondered about going back there. Now I see why I didn’t. Its modern society has adopted western values and has not passed the test of compassion.

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I thought about New Zealand, a beautiful land with caring people I met there. I am pleased it has passed the test.

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The systemic failure is apparent. Every country has its compassion measured in the number of its COVID sick and dead. I have tried to explain how to stop it. The problem is not in the understanding, the problem is in the absence of compassion.

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The healthcare system is not a care system. It has rules and procedures, and fears of lawsuits. It cannot overcome them. The society cares more about the overwhelming of its capabilities than whether people are actually sick or dying.

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It sends sick people home to their families to infect them and to nursing homes to kill many. This way the system is still working. If people died quicker it would be OK according to its values, because the system would be able to take more patients.

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Virtue signaling. No caring.

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People must recognize that the system has completely failed. The black market of compassion must become the system. Sweep away the policies, the mathematical equations that count the dead rather than focus on how to prevent them and the suffering that preceeds and surrounds them.

The world was a special place with my mother in it. She recognized what was special in every person, in every experience. She would point to it so that they and others would recognize it and become enriched by it.

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She taught me the meaning of the space of possibilities. Aspiration never for self but always for improving the world for everyone. She gave me my responsibility.

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The knowledge of mankind has advanced, but knowledge in a system of virtue signaling has no benefit. Only by focusing on each individual and the unique lives we can live and contribute to each other will we move forward.

The world is not forgiving. The test is now.

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The knowledge of mankind has advanced, but knowledge in a system of virtue signaling has no benefit. Only by focusing on each individual and the unique lives we can live and contribute to each other will we move forward.

The world is not forgiving. The test is now.

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