As History Would Have it

People everywhere forget what a pandemic actually can do. Including me. So, I had to do some research and find out what we are currently doing wrong with this pandemic. As a Registered Nurse, I can tell you there is so much misinformation out there. It is hard to believe what is real and what is not. And some of that information comes on the heels of someone who is wildly uneducated and is trying to push a cure for profit.

 

We know the Coronavirus can be destroyed by bleach on exterior surfaces. Drink that stuff and even the coronavirus itself will have to say,

 

“WTF are you doing?”

 

We know that the virus originated in Wuhan China in a wet market. And that the Chinese were not forthcoming about what actually happened. I mean do you blame them. Covid-19 is a highly contagious, super lethal, unknown virus. That is difficult to track, has an unknown transmission (airborne versus contact), and has no known cure or vaccine. And they were trying to control the outbreak before letting the world know. Heck, they built a thousand-bed hospital in ten days. 

 

 

Hiding information is not a Chinese thing. That’s a human thing. We all try to fix our mistakes before anyone finds out.

 

Hell, it took the US government almost forty years to apologize for the Tuskegee Syphilis Study.

 

It took the Canadian Government fifty years to apologize for turning away Jewish refugees fleeing from the Holocaust

 

And it took the Australian Government almost fifty years to apologize for treating the Aboriginals poorly.  

 

 

So I ventured out to see what I could find,

 

Step One. Find the pandemic closest and most relevant to me historically.

 

Step Two. Look at the mistakes that were made

 

Step Three. Don’t make those mistakes.

 

 

Our scientists are being shouted down by people who are more concerned about the economy than human lives. Not accounting for the fact that humans are the economy. People are rushing the beaches and open areas. And trying to return to normal. And believe it or not. This behavior was done before. And it leads to a system-wide clusterofuckero.

 

History would have it

 

Philadelphia (one of my favorite cities) open their doors for a World War One parade too early during the Spanish Flu pandemic. And paid dearly with over eleven thousand deaths.

 

And. . .

 

St. Louis kept their city shut down during the Spanish Flu hosting no parades and the losses were just over six hundred.

 

The ends often justify the means. But as history would have it. The information is readily available to read and study. But as history would also have it. No one is reading it.

 

 

Vale ~H~