like, I'm a nurse by training. Patient education is one of the most joyous of nursing duties. If you can help a person take care of themselves, that's the best feeling https://twitter.com/mountain_goats/status/1312021527416766464

and if you try and try and the patient says "well, 'hypertension' whatever, you guys use a lot of 50-cent words but you're no smarter than me, and besides, Big Pharma is evil*, I have to follow my own path"
*people don't say this without cause, mind; however, etc

then it's much more frustrating than satisfying when the patient ends up on the ICU. "the patient" here isn't the president, it's the people who listen to him and who react to the state of play; they're not going to suddenly embrace science,

they're not going to suddenly say "maybe the weaponization of CDC data for political ends is Bad, Actually,"

they're just going to spin conspiracy theories, as will plenty of people from the other side of the political spectrum

the patient just doesn't want to hear about the actual problem

and we can't isolate the patient, so the infections, along multiple branches, spread. Hi, we're the Mountain Goats /thread