Self-quarantine, government lockdown, and fellow refugees

By Kimberly Cavender

Do you need permission to walk down the street? Where's your government document allowing you to go anywhere they determine to be valid? Have other countries locked their borders against you? Are you unable to get on a flight even if you have the money? Are your children not allowed to attend school? Do people hoard while you need more just to get by? Have you lost your job? Are you unable to see a doctor or get the medicine you need?

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Now, what if you and your children walked hundreds or thousands of miles or you'd be killed. Or maybe your friends drown in a flimsy, rubber boat in icy water. Now back to us, we watch our neighbors die from a disease that nobody expected or controlled when they should have. When they could have. Back to thinking about refugees. If you search the history of how the Syrian civil war started, I think you'll be surprised how quickly it escalated. Farmers moving into cities and some boys spray painting. Seriously.

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This is a wake-up call that we have a tiny look into what refugees have been experiencing for a decade in Europe. How dare we be indifferent. The news we read about or watch on CNN is all about us, 24/7/365. Nobody has asked how the homeless, unwanted families on the outskirts of society surviving. How are their children? What do they need? How do they self-quarantine? Have we garnered any empathy from the coronavirus?