The Staggering, Heartless Cruelty Toward the Elderly
A global pandemic doesn’t give us cause to treat the aged callously.
by Shai Held
Mar 12, 2020
3 minutes
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Crises can elicit compassion, but they can also evoke callousness. Since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, we’ve witnessed communities coming together (even as they have sometimes been physically forced apart), and we’ve seen individuals engaging in simple acts of kindness to remind the sick and quarantined that they are not forgotten. Yet from some quarters, we’ve also seen a degree of cruelty that is truly staggering.
Earlier today, a friend posted on Facebook about an
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