This shit will kill you ... more

As I’m 3000 miles away from home caring for the sickest patients I’ve ever encountered in my career, with a disease process that is unlike anything I’ve ever seen. Young, old and in between. Obese, normal weight, fathers, wives, brothers, sons. Nothing will heal these families and these statements are only making things horribly worse. Doctors and nurses can take the heat. But what these statements are doing to families is terrible. In my whole career I’ve never broken down over the tragedy I’ve seen. I did today.

We must change our behavior. Most if not all of my friends are wearing masks but I’m beginning to think that’s not enough. We must take this back a few steps or we are truly heading to a continuous crisis for months to years which will be an unending tragedy. We really need to cut our activities 25-50%. Not to where it was in January and February because that will never happen and is unrealistic, but we have to get out of this ridiculous mindset that Covid is declining. It is not. It is accelerating.