This is what I look like reading bedtime stories to my 2 year old through a door while on #quarantine.

Luckily I'm negative for #Coronavirus. Life as a #healthcare worker now = any symptoms, even mild -> #gettested and quarantine.... can't get patients sick! 1/

I learned a few things on my week of self-imposed quarantine.

#1 - Not being able to touch your children is awful. Every fiber screams "WRONG" when they cry and you can't hold them. My heart breaks for the many front line workers who plan to do this for months on end. 2/

#2 - The option to #Quarantine and #SocialDistance is a privilege. It requires a supportive partner, a supportive job, enough space, understanding of transmission. As heartbreaking as it is to be away from family, how much more heartbreaking must it be to not have a choice? 3/

#3 - The second victims from this #pandemic will be many - not just the front line workers seeing the tragedies first hands, but the families they leave behind lonely and worrying. Being on quarantine is not like being on a trip. Every moment is filled with fear. 4/

Watching the curves flatten is heartening. I am hopeful that the surge is slowing. But I feel like the country is forgetting that that hitting the peak does not mean hitting the end. 5/

Health care workers have months to go caring for continued cases, months after this helping recovered cases resume normal function. Then there will be months of processing and healing for workers and their families. 6/

Is it worth it? Of course we will do it; this is why we are here. We do our jobs and our jobs are to #KeepYouSafe. But when this is done, I want the country to remember these sacrifices and remember:

We are the people who left our children so the country could be safe.

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We don't recommend #vaccines because we are pharmacy shills; we recommend them because we want to #KeepYouSafe. We don't recommend surgeries because we want a paycheck; we recommend them because we want to #KeepYouSafe. 8/

The same people you ring bells for today - listen to us tomorrow.

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