perjantai 5. kesäkuuta 2020

The right to live and breathe

This week I can't help but wonder why certain things get so much attention in media and why it spreads like an epidemic on social media. It's been all about how black life matters. It definitely does. I completely agree that we all should be equal no matter what the skin color or gender. Not to forget about animal rights either. All life matters. I just feel that if we all are only focused on what is happening in the USA, al lot of other lives gets forgotten. 
Like here in Mexico, can you Mexicans please go out and fight for female lives? Every day 10 women get murdered brutally. They get kidnapped, raped, sometimes skinned to death. It's absolutely horrible how frequently this happens. Now during COVID-19 it has gotten even worse. Because it's often by a family member. The term women include girls yet to become women. They never get to grow up and see what an unequal life they would have had in this country. How about we all go out in the streets and shout about this? Female life matters!!!


And to my Canadian fiends. The worst mass killing of the country's history happened now in April in Nova Scotia. There wasn't a beep about this in social media. These 22 lives clearly didn't matter. Justin Trudeau barely mumbled something about it. Probably only because amongst the dead there was a police woman who got called in on duty. I have tried to find more information about this ever since but it's like it has been hushed up. A white male going about the neighborhood killing who ever was in his way. Completely normal and acceptable apparently?? At least the killer got killed, so some kind of justice was served.

The policeman who killed the black man in Minneapolis hopefully will be put to serving his time in prison along with the 3 other policemen who were holding the victim down. Unfortunately the justice system they have in the USA has let other policemen in similar cases free. It's absolutely horrible. 
Here in Mexico a man got killed by the police, in a similar way hold down by several police men. He wasn't wearing a mask in public. Well, that's one version of the reason. I'm guessing it was for something else. He most likely won't get justice either.
I think it's good that we all stand up and speak for justice but my opinion is to do it locally. Buy local, fight for your citizens locally, fight for your animals locally, nature and climate change locally. This way change might actually happen. Little by little it becomes better. If you in Finland publish a black screen on your social media for a man in the USA, I'm sorry to say but it doesn't much matter. 
If you post something regarding unjust police treatment in Finalnd or perhaps one of the Nordic countries you have a better chance of contributing to a change for the better. 
This is obviously just my humble opinion that I needed to get out of my system. 
Yesterday we had the police telling us to wear a mask while driving in a car on our way to the pharmacy. Did I do what they said? Absolutely, I didn't want to die. Do I think it maid sense? Absolutely not. How on earth am I supposed to spread COVID-19 to people from a car that has the windows up and driving at least 40 km/hour? I don't have those superpowers unfortunately.


As for good news happening here in Queretaro. They finally understood that babies need clothing and they took off the plastic and tapes and gave us access to clothing necessities in the supermarkets. 




I was very grateful and happy to be able to buy a first pair of shoes for my sweetheart. 



My son is not quite yet ready to start driving but I promise I will force him to wear a mask if he does. I have understood that a drivers license however is not required? (I'm obviously joking)

They are now discussing of slowly opening up some parks here in the city. So maybe if we are lucky, next week we might be able to sit down on a park bench. I keep you posted of this great event.

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