We may disagree on the number of victims, how to prevent the infection and its seriousness, but there is one thing we cannot argue about: the effect it has on our overwrought health care workers/system.
You can drive right now to your nearest hospital. You will find doctors, nurses and ancillary staff on their knees from exhaustion and fear, begging you to be safe and take the epidemic seriously. Over 1,000 of them have died in the country.
Do it for them, for your grandma and for yourself. If you get sick, the only bed they may have for you may be in the parking lot, attended by an orderly who will not have any training to help you.
Let us not overrun our health care workers/system.
Reference
Health care workers continue to be frustrated by coronavirus skeptics
“The AP (10/8, Hollingsworth) reports that physicians and nurses are increasingly frustrated with coronavirus skeptics, while also acknowledging that fewer people are dismissing “the virus entirely since the president was diagnosed.” One physician explained that “he also said he fears people may draw the wrong lesson about the seriousness of the disease from what happened to” the President, since he is nominally in a high-risk group but appears to have fared very well against the virus.”
