But epidemics and pandemics come and go, and so do health care workers.
Married as many are to their professions, when infections rise beyond the point of properly caring for patients based strictly upon high numbers, physicians, nurses and supporting personnel with common sense may simply walk away. They have families to protect, too, and when there comes a point where sticking around to care for high-risk patients becomes impossible or hopeless as well as dangerous to health care workers prone to multiple viral exposures in hospitals, clinics and doctors' offices, it's simply time to grab your sensibilities and get the hell out. Left behind are not "the walking dead," just the dead. This, at long last, is not just a television series with similarities.
Medical personnel tolerate a lot of crap from patients every day, some of it enhanced by lawyers looking to sue at the drop of a scalpel. You think an attorney is going to wander around an emergency room as human virus incubators are wheeled in one after another?
If we take the abuse administered by unruly or frantic patients and add it to the incredible risks involved with approaching and staying close to vectors of new and perhaps untreatable diseases, one wonders how long it will be before virtually no health care personnel stay involved.
When the only thing to do is to wait until bodies of the dead can be retrieved weeks or months later.
As always, the depth of nearly every crisis is all about the numbers, and the numerical black hole respects neither patient nor medical professional. We may just be in the early stages of forced self-education regarding this matter.
Bernie on the gurney: No, it wasn't a lethal coronavirus, but the Democrats somehow gained common sense and put everybody's favorite communism fan in the back of the bus, at least for the moment. Biden isn't really a cure, but at his age and mental state it's no secret that leftist people way behind the scenes would totally be puppeteering his nevertheless unlikely presidency.
SETI cuts back: After two decades SETI has terminated its popular universe-scanning project which involved the collection of information via personal computers by private citizens -- and once again we say, hey SETI, everything you're searching for may already have been witnessed in the skies as UFOs. Why shop for milk at the dairy store when the cow's been sitting in your living room, flatulently insisting upon its presence all these years?
