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As I've seemingly finally kicked COVID and it's impacts on my body (6 months later), this will be my last post about it.
When I get older and my future children ask me about this point in time and whether or not I think the measures put in place to help slow the spread of COVID were a good or a bad thing....
I'll not only tell them about my personal experience, but will ask what they've learned about WWI & WWII. How many American lives were lost in those wars? If they don't yet know, I'll talk to them about it.
WWI: 116,516 deaths in almost the same time period that COVID has currently been in the states.
WWII: 291,557 deaths over roughly six years
As of writing this post 317,508 American lives have been lost to COVID in less than 1 year.
WWII: 291,557 deaths over roughly six years
As of writing this post 317,508 American lives have been lost to COVID in less than 1 year.
I'll ask if they've learned about Pearl Harbor or 9/11 and the tragic number of American lives lost in both attacks. Day's which are memorialized and remembered. If not, I'll talk to them about it.
Pearl Harbor: 2,403
9/11: 2,996
Both one day events.
Pearl Harbor: 2,403
9/11: 2,996
Both one day events.
Yesterday (12/16/2020) 3,561American loves were lost to COVID-19. This was not an abnormal spike, more Americans daily are now dying of COVID-19 than in those single day events.
I'll tell them that I didn't understand why people wouldn't take this seriously or mocked measures put in place to help slow the spread.
How people talk about those measures as if they were supposed to 100% stop the spread and deaths caused by the virus when that was clearly never the point.
That the point was to slow the spread until the cavalry (vaccines) arrived, which are now being deployed...
We're almost across the finish line.
We're almost across the finish line.
Sure, everyone has the personal choice to go out in public or to play it safe and stay home, but simple things like wearing a mask and avoiding large crowds could help save so many lives.
Lives of people that are mourned by loved ones. To most they may just be numbers, but to many they were so much more.
They had names. They had built life long relationships and memories with them. They were loved. They were called before their time, no matter their age nor risk factors.
It's not realistic to tell those at high risk to live like hermits and never leave their homes so they don't die.
It's the responsibility of the rest of us to try to mitigate their risk when going to the grocery store, pharmacies, etc.
Why we get so disgusted at the loss of lives from wars or attacks on American soil, yet cry oppression when our leaders try to mitigate the huge number of deaths caused by a virus ravaging our country will forever be beyond me.
This is something I'll never be able to explain to them and it breaks my heart.
