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Reasons Not To Move Freely About The Plane
Have you ever loved anyone who worked in a hospital? No?
Ok — try this. Have you ever loved a child? Any child — just pick one. Maybe this child had cancer at one time. Or needed to stay in an ICU — even just overnight for their peanut allergy. Or maybe they were a preemie and spent a month in a NICU before they could go home. Still drawing a blank?
Ok — Let’s try again. Have you ever loved anyone who is on dialysis? Or had an organ transplant? We can also add all the people who ever received chemo or radiation therapy for their cancer into this group as well. Not yet?
It’s okay — I have more.
Have you ever loved anyone who was ever taken to an emergency room? After a car crash? Or for chest pain? Perhaps they needed surgery or to go to an ICU for treatment or observation.
I could go on — but you’re getting the picture here — by now, I hope.
Humans aren’t staying inside so they won’t get sick. They’re staying inside to save other Humans.
The doctors, nurses, every Human still working at a hospital, driving a truck, stocking shelves, or filling prescriptions. The Humans in the ICUs, walking around immune-compromised, for whom this virus is a gruesome death sentence. The Humans who are the…
