John Cole hit on something I've been thinking about, too. We are about to get hit with our 5th Covid wave by my count. There was the initial wave in spring of 2020, then the fall wave as weather got colder and schools tried to start up, then the brutal winter wave, then Delta and now the Omicron wave is coming.
In certain states or parts of states where vaccination rates are low, medical workers are near or past the breaking point. The next few weeks or months will again see our hospitals overflowing with people sick from an illness that they likely did not need to get. Nurses will be placing otherwise healthy people into body bags, because those people decided not to get a shot that would have saved their lives.
The physical and emotional toil of this will be massive.
These people are veterans of a two front war against a virus and ignorance. When this is over, we should reward them with several things:
- A lifetime of mental health coverage.
- Some sort of GI Bill that could include paying off their student debt or helping them buy a home. Whatever.
- A promissory note against future fucking ineptitude.
That last one will be the hardest.
No comments:
Post a Comment