As Covid-19 flares across this country, I have heard experts describe what is to come as a tsunami.
Our health care professionals are exhausted.
They are frustrated.
I imagine they are struggling more than we know in some of our country’s hardest hit areas. Someday, I fear they will have the same kind of PTSD that effects soldiers.
The holidays will likely usher in a new era of horrors that we all should be worried about now.
It’s hard for many of us to stay home all the time as we need to work, to buy Christmas presents or food. The economy needs us to be out there buying and exchanging money for services – a calculated risk here and there may be worth it. But we owe it to ourselves to stay healthy and to not share our germs with others. So please wear your mask, wash those hands, and social distance like your life depends on it.
After all, it may.
The mural is in Denver and is one of many spectacular pieces of art you can view from the car in that city. The image of a healthcare angel in boxing gloves seems more appropriate now than ever.
Those does seem like an appropriate image. My best friend’s daughters are both nurses – one in the ER. I know she worries about them quite a bit. I’ve heard some doctors and nurses are leaving health care over the stress.
I cannot fathom the stress they’re under on a normal day, much less during a pandemic when people won’t take the simplest steps to slow the spread. My hat is off to all our healthcare workers.