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[ittuabafarda]

I want to say a word or two to you my dear countrymen/women who have lost your employment due to the undeclared recession caused by this very virulent pandemic. You know me by now that I have nothing but unconditional love for all of you. I am very proud of all of us who are very hardworking compatriots. We have shown ourselves and proved to everyone else that given the opportunity we make something out of nothing. We have brought back dying neighborhoods on every corner of this country where many of them were left to rot to vibrant business districts. We don't sit back until luck strikes but we go out there and toil making honest living in the process. Very many of us have become valuable assets to high tech companies and multinational financial institutions. That is us. We can stack up to anyone else in every field when we see the opportunities. In every one of our successes we were not granted but earned it all through grinding hard work. But this pandemic is not showing any mercy even to hardworking people. I am sure you are feeling the pinch already. This virus does not seem to go away soon or confine itself to few places. It is everywhere taking lives in thousands already. This is the time for us to huddle around and face this scourge together. Look after one another. I am down on my knees begging all of you to stop looking at each other as Oromos, Amharas, Tigres, Somalis or whatever. This virus is here with one and only one scheme: To kill every breathing and living human being on this good earth. It will never favor and an Oromo over a Tigre or Amhara or anyone else. Help one another. Practice proper social distancing and in the meantime help those small businesses like restaurants by ordering takeouts. Check on the elderly who live alone from the proper distance. Let's tell each other 'I have your back’ I am my brother's keeper.' This could end up being 1918 déjà vu or worse. It could lead to a 2nd depression like the one in the 1930's or even worse. As one economist opined before as ‘Recession is when your neighbor has lost his/her job. Depression is when you too have lost your job’. Keep that in mind. The trick is not to panic but face it head on with courage and looking for one another. This shall pass but not before giving humanity a scar that it will never forget. It shall pass. Insha'Allah!!!!

[ittuabafarda]

In the meantime, I would like to say a word or two to those few knuckle heads among our millennial generation. I know you. You think you are tough guys. You think you are too strong for this deadly virus. You’re wrong! You’re dead wrong!!! You should listen to what the experts have been telling us. Social distancing is not just an advice but a must. Remember that with your reckless behavior of socializing in en masse does not only put you at risk but you are jeopardizing your loved ones who are at the higher risk of catching the flu by Coved-19 like your moms, dads and grandparents. Heed, heed and heed the experts’ advice.

[ittuabafarda]

Stay up there!!!! Way way up there!!!!