Boardwalkbrats
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Nov 29, 2012
I too work in the medical field and have a few hours in virology as well as epidemiology as those courses are in the first few years of medical school. I too attend many hours of continuing education to keep my license to practice current. I don’t use Wikipedia for my info, I am old enough to have medical text books in my library. As you can see there is not consensus among medical professionals and scientists on how this should or should not be handled, or even how it is going. The next few weeks to months are going to tell the story of how this reopening is going to go down in history. If this virus is attenuating and the death tolls and ICU stays don’t spike along with the increase in infections. Then that’s when I say it was handled well. I do believe that is what is going to happen. But I have been wrong and am open to the prospect that I maybe wrong again. This is the path my education and history points my opinion to favor. We are dealing with a biological in a biological system, so there is variation mutation, drift and shift of virulence that is difficult to account for.I'm sorry if I come across as someone who is uninformed or uneducated. I was a critical care nurse for over 10 years. When my DH and I lived in Sunnyvale California in the late 90s, I worked at Kaiser Permanente in the I.C.U and occasionally on their step-down unit. As a nurse we had to do a lot of continuing education to maintain our license, and I actually attended a lecture series on infectious disease. One was given by an epidemiologist. Now, in no way am I saying that I attended Stanford...didn't have the grades for that, but I remember that lecture, and remember being fascinated by it. So, I am pretty clear on what a pandemic is. Do I have a rolodex of pandemics scrolling through my head? No. But, like you I am familiar with wikipedia and google.
And quite honestly, I'm not politicizing this pandemic at all. I, like many Americans, were hoping for....expecting.....a much better response to this pandemic. One that is led by public health officials, medical professionals and scientists. Politicians with "gut feelings" and pandemics....turn out to be a lethal combination. With each passing day, I am honestly shocked at how badly we're doing.
God bless and be well.