Berkeley student Abrar Abidi re right of sanitation

Apr 13, 2020 15:37 · 176 words · 1 minute read like 19 epidemic people vulnerable

  • I think that the COVID-19 epidemic is just a miniature of the kind of problems that we’re gonna be facing in the future, and not just with future pandemics but also with enormous unprecedented economic crisis, climate catastrophe, and so in order to adapt to this new reality, we are having to discover new ways of responding to these problems and using whatever resources we have at hand and coming together and considering things, like in this case, just sanitation is a basic human right, not something which is a commodity that should be bought and sold, but something that people, who are the most vulnerable, should have. And the cost of this whole operation is absolutely negligible. We live in one of the wealthiest cities in the history of the world. Some people on a weekend vacation end up dramatically outspending what its cost for this entire operation to run for the last three weeks, and maybe what it’s gonna continue costing for the future. It doesn’t take much to take care of people. .