The Tough Year
This was a tough year. And I won’t lie, it’s going to get tougher.
A few days ago, I read about the situation that’s evolving around the country, for the hospitals. It’s like a worse version of what happened here, in New York City, 10 months ago. There’s so many sick people that hospitals are out of beds. If someone is in cardiac arrest, or needs an emergency room, there’s no where to take that person. People who may have lived won’t get that chance, and it’s not the fault of any doctor, nurse or hospital around the country, even though we’re all going to seek vengeance and blame once the crisis has passed.
The more contagious version of Covid-19 that appeared in the UK has already appeared in patients here in the United States, including in a 20 year old man in Florida. While so many people continue to get sick and die from this disease, as the hospitals overflow and people see what we saw, morgue trucks on street corners, there’s other people still in denial about what’s happening. A pharmacist a few days ago destroyed over 550 Covid-19 vaccines. In addition, vaccines aren’t getting to people quickly enough. This is bad for two reasons. The first reason this is bad is because the longer it takes to vaccinate our population, the longer the disease, its deadly effects, and the need for safety measures will continue. There’s already a substantial portion of our population that has been unable…