What the Pandemic's major lesson is to us all!

The importance of living in a community that's livable!

 We have come to realize the importance of stores in our neighborhood that meet our needs.  Of having in close proximity a hospital, a church or place of worship, convenient transportation and above all, people around us in time of need and of personal grief and sorrow.

China is moving its citizenry off vacated farmlands into places known as "village consolidations."  It's forced upon the people of that area  But we have come to know that it's not wise simply to let people go it alone--unaware of what disasters they are foisting on themselves and their loved ones.  

I remember teaching at Ohio University in the midst of poverty, as a result of the closure of the coal mines in Southeastern Ohio.  The residents who stayed on past the heyday of the industry seemed so lost and bewildered by all the vacant homes about theirs.  We need to have concern for one another, to help each other relocate to places livable for us humans--not simply exist in a shack with an outhouse out back.  You can see them still in the aerial shots of the western states on TV. 

I hope President-Elect Biden and his team will reach out into the very byways of our country with a message of mercy and care for one another.  When I was working in the computer industry many years ago, I learned early on to know the signs of a company I was working for about to go under; and would beat it out to better opportunities.  That is to say, I'd search for a "village consolidation" where I could prosper by reaching out--networking  through friends and professional organizations for leads to a livable and sustaining community.

Never should the human being "have no choice bu to move into these (forced) settlements!" p. 34 of the October 3rd Economist issue, regarding the present-day Chinese experience of the poor.

Here, the Army Corps of Engineers and the civilian administration should make part of its infrastructure upgrade agenda beautifying the country by getting rid of the slums in the inter-city and the shacks and junk of bygone years left to rot at the locales where they once were part of a thriving and prosperous vicinity.

LIVE AMONG PEOPLE WHO CARE ABOUT YOU--I think.