I'll just say this. I've known people who knew things that they were sworn, even by contract, to keep secret. I've known people who to their credit arrived at the decision their conscience could not let them remain silent, while the world or parts of it sought answers and postulated sometimes unfathomable ideas of what truth was just to satisfy that need to know something. And some never realized how close their guess was to the real truth.
And I've known those people for whom the conscience spoke louder than the threat of breach of contract, lawsuits, jail, or worse, and did speak up and out. And people gathered and listened and were amazed. Some not so much because their notions of what was true were very close to what turned out to be when the whistle blew and the truth entered the light.
And then they died.
Maybe we should give the dead their respect in looking at the new whistle blower(s) who arrive to our attention from somewhere in the world to realize what they're risking for bravely stepping from the darkness of silence under threat and into the light for full disclosure.
And if we criticize there is only one maybe rather than think that means there are no others and the one is possibly out of their mind, we might just wish to consider all those numbered dead who came before. And maybe think that while there could be more who know that truth they wish not to be numbered too.
And so, there is just the one who in this case, and I'm not saying she is absolutely right, I'm saying she is absolutely bold and brave to do this, maybe arrived at the conscious conclusion that she'll risk being the next among the numbered dead among past whistle blowers because she can't live with the numbers of dead who succumb to this virus if she remains silent in the dark.
Just a thought.
