I'm gonna tell you all a secret: I'm actually still in the camp that this is "just like the flu", if the flu chose to slam us in a pandemic form, a la 1918.
I have seen some nasty flu deaths. The flu has ALWAYS had the potential to do this, we just don't acknowledge that.
I have seen some nasty flu deaths. The flu has ALWAYS had the potential to do this, we just don't acknowledge that.
Really, ANY viral respiratory illness has always had the potential to do this to us, we've just always felt safer and more secure with a known enemy than a new one, even if that known enemy has always had the potential to be ugly to us and just hasn't for a while.
It speaks volumes that the general public is so lacking in knowledge and fear around even the flu, which killed 5% of the population at one point, that they can't even bother to get a readily available vaccine or treat it likes it dangerous, when it kills thousands every year.
Let this be a lesson to us ALL as providers: Don't let your guard down and educate your communities on their risks for all diseases, ALL of them, not just ones that sound foreign and scary.
Treat everything like it's "just the flu", because it decimated the entire world once.
Treat everything like it's "just the flu", because it decimated the entire world once.
@threadreaderapp Unroll, please
