Love in the Time of COVID
Wow, what a difference a week makes! A week that quite honestly has felt like a year!
I hope that everyone reading this is safe and healthy and staying at home to do our part to help “flatten the curve” and show support and appreciation for “our troops” in the current world war―the courageous health care professionals who are putting themselves at risk everyday as they tirelessly fight this global pandemic on the front lines, facing life and death decisions that none of us should have to make.
This is not a drill. This is not just another flu. This is a highly infectious viral pneumonia that is currently devastating health care systems across the globe. Coming soon to a community near you.
As I type medical leaders just north of us in Washington State are facing a grim reality and having to draw up guidelines for rationing medical care―an ethical framework for deciding who receives care and lives and who’s denied care and dies if the state’s health system is overwhelmed as feared. A doomsday scenario that feels like something out of a movie but which is in fact altogether real.
Like everyone, I’ve experienced the full range of human emotions this week in the face of a new reality far scarier than any I’d contemplated previously. I’m slowly adjusting to a new normal that is anything but.
