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#NationalNursesDay! #COVID19Response #st.kitts&nevis
May 2, 2020
Like the king of destruction, the corona virus has ridden hither, thither and yon leaving a trail of death, anguish, and economic despair. The swiftness with which it has claimed thousands of lives, decimated communities exposing fault lines of health and economics, reminds us that “all humanity is as grass” and that “the grass withers and flowers fade.”
Yet amidst the darkness and dismay there are many green shoots!
Green shoots evidenced by citizens in New York opening their windows at 7 pm nightly for a musical tribute to health workers who put their lives on the line, and Italians serenading each other from windows and balconies!
Green shoots of a prominent reminder that the garbage collectors, delivery persons and those who pack the grocery shelves are to be valued and esteemed!
Green shoots of sharing, caring and brotherly love as neighbors reach out to ensure food packages are given to those in need.
Green shoots of teachers still showing up at closed schools to ensure their students are not without a daily meal, and retired health workers joining their colleagues on the front lines of the battle despite the personal risks to their own lives.
Green shoots as we learn the importance of family and relationships when hugs and kisses are denied us, as we understand that we are all in this together! As we appreciate that as “citizens of this world” it is to our benefit to “seek peace and pursue it” amongst ourselves but also to constructively coexist with all of God’s creation.
May we never return to business as usual, but as the jewels in our Creator’s “Corona” may humanity strive to achieve “The Real Wealth of Nations” by carving out a New World Order not of dominance and submission but of partnership and corporation, of justice and equality of gender, race, religion and creed, safe in the knowledge that our lives are in the hands of a Supreme Being and that “THIS TOO SHALL PASS!”
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Thelma Phillip-Browne, a medical doctor, is Ambassador to the US from St Kitts and Nevis. Dr. Philip-Browne graduated from the University of the West Indies (UWI) Mona, Jamaica, 1978, and received training in Public Health at the John Hopkins University School of Medicine and is also a graduate from the Cardiff University School of Medicine in Wales, with a Diploma in Dermatological Science. Besides being a social and political activist, Ambassador Phillip-Browne is a sports enthusiast who represented St. Kitts in netball for many years and was a member of the Caribbean Netball Association’s Championship Team in 1973.