Covid

I think most people have tried to just forget what a crazy time Covid was for everyone.

I remember that, before we knew what we were dealing with, my son was working at a large hospital and HE was placed in charge of testing for this new threat… He had just graduated from Auburn and had taken a temporary job, sterilizing surgical instruments. All of the sudden, they switched him to testing for this new virus.

When they opened the hospital’s PPEs, they had been expired by 10 years and were dry rotted. They would have to use the same masks for days, placing them in a paper bag, with their name on it.

That was when the hospital was so desperate that they put out a plea to anyone who could sew, to make masks for the staff, using a specific pattern. I learned how to sew! It was my son after all, and we didn’t know how bad this virus would be….

He actually lost friends that were college age. Then everyone started losing someone they knew.

Hindsight makes it seem so easy to judge things like mask efficacy, lock downs, the rush for vaccines, etc. At the time though, we had no idea if it was going to be like Ebola, or the Spanish flu. We all did the best we could. Politics made those issues an Us vs Them argument.

Trump was the one who pulled the experts together to find a vaccine. He should have been proud of that. Instead he turned on the idea of vaccines and turned those same experts into villains. It still makes no to sense to me

All I know is that the US had more deaths than any other nation, by far. Somehow, we didn’t do the right things. The states with masks and shut downs, did have less deaths though.

Looking at the Worldometer website, that tracked the data daily, and the breakdown of stats, by every country. The US was number 1! We’re always the best, right?!? Even in having people die.

I felt terrible for the kids whose lives were so altered. No proms, or graduations, no in class learning for so long, etc. Many are still struggling socially, according to the stats.

Covid changed our world as much as 9/11 or any war. People want to forget it all though. I just hope we learned some lessons for the next virus.

With RFK Jr as our Secretary of Health, we’re already having diseases, that were once eradicated, exploding around the country. Plus, our government has cut the agencies that used to track diseases around the globe, and helped to prevent outbreaks.

If the US hadn’t had those resources in Africa, during Ebola, there’s no telling how bad that would have become. Now, those resources are gone. What happens when the next outbreak happens, in a 3rd world country, and nobody is there to recognize it and contain it?

The US has made some very poor, and dangerous decisions over the last year + … Decisions that I believe that we will regret, if we have another, more dangerous outbreak in the world.