Jeff (Jeff For Local Marketing) records a short spoken reflection during early COVID-19 (video dated April 25, 2020). He describes taking a photo on a walk of a group of about a dozen bikers using a trail/parking area, criticizes the apparent disregard for public-health guidance (people treating their actions as harmless because it’s 'only us'), and frames the issue with the 'butterfly effect' — arguing individual actions affect others and emphasizing human interconnectedness. The speaker expresses frustration that some people seem to ignore how small actions cascade through the community.
I often wonder why we need so many laws.
I think sometimes we have way too many laws because it's really hard to enforce the ones we do create. And you're looking at an image that I took this morning when I was out walking, hence the look here. And I immediately saw.
An abuse already of what we'd been given, which is a little bit of freedom. And that freedom looks like, hey, we can go back out on the trails, we can park our car in the parking lot for the trails, we can go back to a park, we can even play a little tennis and maybe some pickleball, as long as it's a single match. But this picture again that I'm going to show you was a little disturbing because sometimes we forget that we're all interconnected. Now, I guarantee you there are people in that group that said, hey, you know what, What I'm doing is not affecting anyone because it's only us. It's only this group of, you know, 12 or 13 bikers. But really what we've learned, and maybe this group hasn't learned it, and I don't mean to be, you know, disparaging to anyone, is they don't think we're all connected. This is one of those things that the pandemic really opened our eyes, that we are all one. And when, you know, that whole butterfly effect is like, hey, when the butterfly flaps its wings.
In Wuhan, the entire world gets sick or is exposed to this and we forget about that. I think the sooner we start remembering and keep it in our conscious mind that we are all connected and my actions may affect somebody else and my actions or the actions of others may affect me. And so when I see that these people, and I don't know them from anybody, but I see this out on the trail and I'm like, wow, raise your awareness. We've just gone through, you know, Here it is April 25th, and we've probably gone through six weeks of shelter and home and you know how it devastates our economy. And I know these people are doing it innocently, but I remember one time a police officer pulled somebody over and they said, well, I didn't see the sign. Well, just because you didn't see the sign does not make those actions acceptable. So keep that in mind. We are all connected. And what actions are you taking today that you think, hey, are only for you, that it will only affect you, but in reality it could affect us all. Alright, that's all I've got today. Stay connected. My name is Jeff Harrison with Swingpoint Media.
