COVID-19 • Rethinking After A Full Breach

March 03.2020

IF YOU ARE SICK, YOU HAVE COVID-19 UNTIL PROVEN OTHERWISE

Containment seems to have failed entirely.  That is not good.  With serious testing just beginning this week, reported cases will likely multiply exponentially.  Our health care system could well take a big hit.  We need to help them right now.

Again.  As citizens our goal is to keep out of the healthcare system.  To stay healthy and keep our neighbors and coworkers healthy.  When H1N1 arrived, the public responded and that was critical to our success.  We must respond similarly.

COVID – 19 kills those with respiratory disease and compromised immune systems with unfortunate effectiveness.  If you are sick with COVID-19 – have any of the symptoms – you could be lethal to those with diabetes, COPD, asthma, emphysema, cancer, AIDS, etc.  Stay away – really – stay the %$#@ away!  Stay away.  OK?  Please.

I want to congratulate The State of Washington on a great press conference yesterday.  If you want to hear folks who get Emergency Preparedness – they seem to have their arms around it.  I continue to be shocked and dismayed at the federal response both in their press conferences and actions.  Their continued magical thinking, under-reporting, failure to deconflict the chain of command, contradiction of medical experts and full politicization of this crisis is nauseating.  People are already dying due to their inept response.

So….

Stay healthy or stay home.

If you’re scared, you are not prepared.

Have a beer (if that’s your thing).

My love to all of you.  Especially to my friends and family in Lake Oswego, Oregon and all my former colleagues in healthcare and Emergency Preparedness.

We’re going to get through this and better if we do it together.