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SaturdayMay16,2020at1:09PM

A serious fault line is developing in Randolph County, like the crooked line in Western California where the tectonic plates rip the Earth under communities. Our county is ripped apart by beliefs, by income status, by politics, by race and now by age.

Have you ever noticed where the lines are drawn between those who need to go back to work and those who are retiring?

As the cracks develop, the pandemic opens up enmity where we thought the surface was healed over. I want to speak about where the working healthy folks under 60 are opposed to the vulnerable aged people and dont want to talk about it.

I see it in the arguments among elected officials and more in the stores and around the restaurant take-out counters. Younger working adults with or without children are becoming more vehemently split against the older people who just happen to be the biggest group being killed by the C-virus. How do I know? Just go to a store in Randolph County and watch.

Two restaurants I have visited recently do not make their employees wear any gloves or masks and I assure you the many patrons circulating there to pick up food have no concern. No wonder theres no change in the infection number increase. Randolph County is the land of the brave and the foolish.

The American health care system relies on employer generosity and the fee for service model. Medicare waddles along behind taking advantage of the workers who are able to keep the system afloat. Specialists are doing well off of the latest procedures and medicines to keep the old people going into their 70s and 80s and comprises a huge percentage of those people with pre-existing conditions. Its the pre-existing conditions that make the coronavirus so effective among the elderly.

I have to wonder when the great loss of vulnerable people will be welcomed by the mega crowd and the cost-conscious Tea Party types. Oh yes, thats another division. Political pollsters are trying to figure the odds.

John C Miller

Randleman

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Randolph, home of the foolish and the brave - Opinion - Asheboro Courier Tribune