In this age of pandemic, we rightly honor the many heroes among us. Our health care professionals deserve unending praise, of course, but they also merit any actions we can take to make their lives a bit easier. How about ensuring they have toilet paper? That’d help.
It’s easy in times like these to overlook other acts of leadership, especially given the bilge continuing to ooze from the vomit-in-chief and his henchmen. Truck drivers come to mind. Keep in mind that we cannot survive without the men and women who drive the big rigs with the medical supplies, food and household products we need.
Crissy Becker is a truck driver from Maine. She told CBS News several days ago, “I'm a mom. Instead of going home, I stayed out driving my truck sometimes 24 hours at a time. So y'all got what you need. And there are hundreds of thousands more like me but instead of going home are running until we can't see straight in our tracks." Becker understandably laments that truck drivers, store clerks, food-delivery folks and garbage haulers are all too easily forgotten in these crises.
If nothing else, please say thank you to truck drivers you see delivering needed goods and potentially putting themselves at risk. I did so the other day with two guys from Boar’s Head Provisions. Yes, in better times, there’d be a joke in there somewhere about making the world safe for mortadella, but not now. We'll leave that to the flattening-curve-deniers still sitting around Starbucks' stores today, which in a more evolved society would seem simply unimaginable. Anyway, the men from Boar's Head were initially puzzled by my expression of appreciation, but then got it, smiled broadly and said, “You’re welcome.”
Leaders can be found everywhere in our daily lives. Please let them know you care.
It’s easy in times like these to overlook other acts of leadership, especially given the bilge continuing to ooze from the vomit-in-chief and his henchmen. Truck drivers come to mind. Keep in mind that we cannot survive without the men and women who drive the big rigs with the medical supplies, food and household products we need.
Crissy Becker is a truck driver from Maine. She told CBS News several days ago, “I'm a mom. Instead of going home, I stayed out driving my truck sometimes 24 hours at a time. So y'all got what you need. And there are hundreds of thousands more like me but instead of going home are running until we can't see straight in our tracks." Becker understandably laments that truck drivers, store clerks, food-delivery folks and garbage haulers are all too easily forgotten in these crises.
If nothing else, please say thank you to truck drivers you see delivering needed goods and potentially putting themselves at risk. I did so the other day with two guys from Boar’s Head Provisions. Yes, in better times, there’d be a joke in there somewhere about making the world safe for mortadella, but not now. We'll leave that to the flattening-curve-deniers still sitting around Starbucks' stores today, which in a more evolved society would seem simply unimaginable. Anyway, the men from Boar's Head were initially puzzled by my expression of appreciation, but then got it, smiled broadly and said, “You’re welcome.”
Leaders can be found everywhere in our daily lives. Please let them know you care.
Crissy Becker image courtesy of CBS News.