Eli Francovich, The Spokesman-Review; Viral ethics: Keeping our moral compass in a time of confinement
"“We can’t panic and we can’t lose our intrinsic moral compass and
doing right by our fellow human beings,” said Dr. Darryl Potyk, chief
for medical education at the University of Washington School of Medicine
in Spokane. “I would worry more about me giving it to her. But if she’s
in danger, the present danger is apparent. I want to deal with the
apparent danger right now.”
Coming together
And so, last week, I approached the ailing woman.
She needed to go to the bus plaza. She’d taken a bus from her home in
the Spokane Valley, where she lives alone, to drop off some paperwork
downtown. While she was walking back, she had some sort of attack or
episode, she didn’t know what exactly, maybe something to do with her
diabetes.
She grasped the crook of my arm and, I’m not proud to admit, I recoiled at first, worried she might touch my hand.
Five people had already passed and not helped, she said. We walked
slowly to the plaza. She stumbled often, her back arching backward,
threatening to upend her precarious grasp on gravity. A Spokane Transit
Authority employee saw us and, without any visible hesitation, took her
other arm. The three of us shuffled to the waiting area for her
Paratransit bus.
I bought her a slice of pizza and she thanked us."
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