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Katarina Johnson-Thompson Tumbled But She Never Backed Down
That spirit will get us past bad pandemic policy and behavior
Imagine training for years to be excellent at the heptathlon 200M.
You win two World Championships, but this is the Tokyo Olympics, Pandemic Edition. You round the curve, and all is well until it is not.
A connection amid all the nerves, ligaments, muscles, and more that make you magnificent gives way, and then because you are human, so do you.
Johnson-Thompson’s display of fortitude sparked thoughts of the race we all must run these days.
Calm means waiting for small minds to accept the truth
When the Supreme Court adds to the damage they did to the Voting Rights Act by okaying a voter suppression in Arizona, you know your SCOTUS considers you a non-citizen — that is, if you are a black person.
When your governor encourages citizens to carouse without PPE or common sense, considering jabs don’t immunize, your leaders consider you COVID fodder.
And when even sensible people believe in some magical pause that allows business to return to normal, there is nothing to do except waiting.
