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History repeats itself. Plagues have wiped out millions of people every 100 years for 4 centuries. That\u2019s why we trust facts and statistics. When we aren\u2019t testing our 350 million US citizens, yet the government is talking about lifting the shelter-in-place orders based on economics and not the status of COVID-19, I am outraged and disillusioned.<\/p>\n
My daughter Nicole (ER doc) just texted this to me:<\/p>\n
\u201cIf the first wave of the Spanish Flu killed 3-5 million but the second wave killed 20-50<\/a> million, should we be stockpiling PPE for the second wave?\u201d<\/p>\n I told her that she shouldn\u2019t be a hero and work in an environment where she has to wear the same N95 mask for an entire day \u2013 even though the manufacturer recommends discarding the mask after examining each patient. My friends and I have made 300 3-layered cloth masks with MERV-14 filters and 300 face shields to give every frontline worker in the Emergency Dept at her hospital the personal protection they can use when they don\u2019t have the supplies they need. This is ridiculous that we have to do this.<\/p>\n It sickens me to know that come fall 2020, my daughter and all of the healthcare workers in the United States and the world will face the second wave of this pandemic that will overwhelm them and probably kill 20-50 million people.<\/p>\n Why?<\/p>\n Because short-sighted people who run the government at the federal level and in many states don\u2019t understand that by lifting the shelter-in-place order to get people back to work again BEFORE we\u2019ve analyzed the spread of the virus and antibodies, we may experience an overwhelming resurgence of the coronavirus that will topple our economy and kill over 100 times more people in the process.<\/p>\n We need to listen to the medical professionals and stop listening to the politicians. Hunker down, simplify your life, and then come out to play and work when the coronavirus is contained and controlled.<\/p>\n The post Have we learned anything from 4 centuries of plagues?<\/a> appeared first on Merit Educational Consultants<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" History repeats itself. Plagues have wiped out millions of people every 100 years for 4 centuries. That\u2019s why we trust facts and statistics. When we aren\u2019t testing our 350 million […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,41,136,142,146,180],"class_list":["post-1149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2nd-wave","tag-coronavirus","tag-pandemic","tag-plagues","tag-ppe","tag-spanish-flu"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanmotherscalifornia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanmotherscalifornia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanmotherscalifornia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanmotherscalifornia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanmotherscalifornia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/americanmotherscalifornia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanmotherscalifornia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanmotherscalifornia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanmotherscalifornia.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}