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I want to say this to all of my family and my friends. The covid-19 pandemic is complex and the ramifications of this horrific disease are intensely emotionally challenging. For clarity, let’s discuss WHY we CANNOT behave in a “business as usual” fashion.
I want to say this to all of my family and my friends. The covid-19 pandemic is complex and the ramifications of this horrific disease are intensely emotionally challenging. For clarity, let’s discuss WHY we CANNOT behave in a “business as usual” fashion.
1. Covid-19 is highly contagious. It’s considered the “perfect” virus because of the time patients are sick, the high % of patients who are asymptotic (don’t know they’re spreading), it lives on surfaces, transported by live hosts (humans, who do not suffer fatal effects).
2. With this in mind, only essential activities should be conducted.
3. It does not matter if you and your friends have been quarantining, you should not be socializing. I will spell this out in the following story about how easily covid spreads and often unknowingly
4. Shirley goes to Paul and Cindys house to watch a movie. None of them have symptoms and have been quarantining for weeks, only going out for essential services or seeing one person or two people at a time.
5. Earlier in the week, Paul went to the grocery store and got sneezed on. The customer didn’t know they had covid-19 and Paul didn’t hear the sneeze.
6. After the movie, Shirley goes home to her husband Jeff and their 2 kids- Jack and Jill.
7. 5 days later, Shirley calls Paul to ask if either he or Cindy feel sick because Jill is having fever and is coughing often. Cindy has the same symptoms.
8. Shirley & Cindy notify the public health services. Contact tracing begins. Because they thought they were safe, Cindy has to inform 5 friends she saw and Shirley has to call the 3 sets of parents of Jills play date a couple days ago. Those contacts then contact their contacts.
Is it becoming more clear? It doesn’t matter how “careful” we are, isolating, social distancing and only doing essential business is the ONLY known effective preventative measure.
I am begging everyone on my feed, consider how you may unknowingly become infected or unknowingly infect others.
I am sorry if you are feeling in need of company, truly. Let us rely on each other virtually. How SORRY would you be about the number of contacts that would have to be traced because of your actions?
The only way out of this, is through. The only way through, is together- physically apart, emotionally connected.
