Thread by @TobyGialluca

Last night a dear friend called me. She was on her way home from working in the Covid ward.

A patient who had been doing well crashed and had been intubated on her day off. Today she died as her husband of 68 years (who recovered) sat by her side.

In this small town hospital she says that every day someone dies of Covid. She’s struggling to understand what they are doing wrong and how so many can die but she is told it’s not just them, it’s like this everywhere.

She has a family and she’s scared. She’s in awe she’s made it this long without contracting Covid but afraid she will before she’s protected by the vaccine. That she’ll bring it home to her family.

We talk for awhile as she drives home, and for a while longer as she sits in her driveway. The topic moves towards children and her tone gradually lightens as she gets her game face on for her family.

She has 11 days to go until her next day off.

She has too many Covid patients for one person to handle but there’s no reinforcements, no cavalry coming to help them.

My offers to help in some way, any way, feel hollow as we both know there’s really nothing I can do. “There is one thing,” she says, “keep your family healthy, keep them out of the hospital.”

I will do that for her, for her family, for frontline workers, and for strangers. I will stay home with love & gratitude for as long as it takes.

I share her story in the hopes that you all will stay home & stay healthy. If doing nothing is all we can do to stop the death and devastation, do it. There are dark days ahead, how dark depends on us. Ask yourselves what you SHOULD do, not what you can do. #COVID #stayathome

Meanwhile #DeathSantis goes out of his way to hinder local governments from protecting citizens.

He’s going out of his way to kill innocent Americans. #Covid

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