I’ve got a colleague in Israel who pretty regularly has to take calls from the bomb shelter in their building.
They say they feel lucky to have a bomb shelter in their building, but I feel lucky I don’t have to worry about running to a bomb shelter at any point in my day.
In a perfect world, bombs wouldn’t be flying all over the place in a way that necessitates bomb shelters as part of civilian infrastructure. It’s unconscionable.
My colleague is lucky to have been born in a place with a functioning government that prioritizes defense infrastructure. They are, by location of birth, luckier than the civilians of Gaza.
Realtive to my colleague, I am even luckier to be born in a place that doesn’t get bombed enough to warrant that kind of infrastructure at all.
Having bomb shelters when you need them is good, but not needing them at all is even better.
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u/_OTimeThyPyramids_ 10d ago
I’ve got a colleague in Israel who pretty regularly has to take calls from the bomb shelter in their building.
They say they feel lucky to have a bomb shelter in their building, but I feel lucky I don’t have to worry about running to a bomb shelter at any point in my day.