A 🧵 on staying human in a #pandemic:
Every day I look at #COVID19 deaths in my own county. The number is always small. I can picture that number of people. I allow myself to imagine their last days, sit with the likelihood of their suffering, their regrets, their fear
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Every day I look at #COVID19 deaths in my own county. The number is always small. I can picture that number of people. I allow myself to imagine their last days, sit with the likelihood of their suffering, their regrets, their fear
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I have watched a lot of people die. I have tried desperately to save some. I have sat quietly with others who have asked us to stop & let them die peacefully. I have declared people dead. It’s a fact of being a doctor. It’s a fact of being an oncologist. So I can picture it.
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What I cannot picture is nearly 500,000 in the 🇺🇸 dead. It’s a 767 airplane full of Americans crashing every single day between now and 2028. It’s about 11 full Camden Yards stadiums. I can calculate it, but I still cannot picture it.
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But the one person who died yesterday in my county of #COVID19—a person whose name I don’t know—that, I can imagine. I envision that single human’s end, their loved ones. And then when I multiply that by 500,000 dead in 🇺🇸 alone, I feel the vastness. I stay human. #pandemic /End 
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