I altered the first line of an old song (“Let’s Fall in Love”) to shamelessly draw you in to a discussion of an important topic. As an intro, here’s a little Haiku for These Times Social distancing— Ants isolate selves when ill Healthy queen makes room. Why are ants so much smarter than a growing number of humans? I’m speaking now of the American variety (of humans, not ants), but surely there are others.
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More Notes From a COVID-19 Epicenter: Fighting This Thing Alone–Together
Events are moving very rapidly. Less than a week after I published my post about life in self-quarantine in an epicenter of the pandemic, far more Americans are in similar situations—some in mandatory lockdown, which I suspect will arrive in my community soon. In my previous post, I described being in a hard-hit area with a local hospital whose CEO was profoundly worried about running out of ventilators for patients and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for hospital staff. When staff members become ill, obviously, there’s no one to treat patients.