Not dead yet!
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I was watching news about Coronavirus and I was thinking of all the "community spread" fears in the US. Our response to viruses in general is "Oh whatever, you're fine, go home and eat soup." It's medieval. We've created a medical environment of denial about anything that can spread in a contagion. Denial about Lyme, about parasites, about persistent EBV infection, about aftereffects of food poisoning. These (and others) are placed in the basket of "deplorables" as if they were beneath contempt. Tell a doctor you're afraid you may have a tapeworm because you rescued an animal that has them, and you will get scorned, even if you bring evidence of fevers, etc. So why wouldn't we be fools about Coronavirus? We've systematically denied that anything's wrong about so many things, it's hard to imagine we'd pay any attention now.
Am I putting it too harshly? Am I "capitalizing" on the global tragedy?
I don't know.
But I do feel this way.
Am I putting it too harshly? Am I "capitalizing" on the global tragedy?
I don't know.
But I do feel this way.