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I keep hearing from medical professionals across the country in DMs and in FB groups that they are still getting no extra training, prep, or even information on #COVID19 . This insanity.
Still hearing from healthcare workings & second-hand from the families of healthcare workers. Military, civilian, near the quarantine sites, away from the quarantine sites -- so many are reporting zero guidance or even discussion of coronavirus.
It's truly as if we think the scenes from Wuhan and Iran are some sort of "it's just those people over there" problem that is not very possibly about to happen here imminently. It's terrifying to contrast this w/ all the talk of preparation & coordination & isolation etc...
...coming from some corners of public health and infectious disease twitter. The latter folks are talking about things that are not only NOT happening, but in so many places there's not even a discussion of a plan to make them happen.
The "we can beat this if we plan, coordinate, & isolate" talk is like me with this WIRED editorial (wired.com/story/opinion-…). I knew when I wrote it we weren't going to lift a finger to fix it in time. I still had to try sound the alarm. But privately I always knew the score.
I think the privately all the "here is how we will beat this" people are in the same boat. They have to say this stuff because it's true & somebody needs to say it, but privately they're probably as aware as anyone that nobody's doing jack & everyone has their head in the sand.
If it's still like this into next week, I'm going to pivot from buying canned food & bags of beans to buying ammo. 🤦‍♂️
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