Her name is Israa Seblani and she's a doctor . Immediately after this, she went to help nearby injured people before being forced to take find safety for herself. The entire world falls short of the mark next to people like her.
Tonight people in Beirut are going to sleep in shattered homes, during a deadly pandemic, with a collapsing economy led by corrupt politicians, surrounded by countries that have attacked & threatened them and a world that has abandoned them and their refugees. They deserve better
I cannot read another essay by someone who thought covid was a hoax until, whoops, they too got deathly ill. Somehow, they thought everyone else impacted by the virus was...lying?
An inability to believe suffering in others until it happens to you is its own disease.