Was it just a few years ago when we were cheering our “essential workers?”. Those were the people who went to work in the dangerous nursing homes and assisted living facilities to care for the sick and elderly. The pay was low, the protections minimal but still they went in. The facilities did next to nothing to protect the residents and workers and many died alone in the homes isolated from their loved ones. It was a dreadful time and the stories of bodies piling up in some facilities was a page out of the great bubonic plague.

Big signs were hoisted on building cheering our essential workers who went into hospitals to save the sick and dying. In New York City residents isolated in their apartments banged pots and pans out the windows to cheer those who tried to help and save us. I still see the sign “Heroes …