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<blockquote data-quote="slobster" data-source="post: 7943634" data-attributes="member: 6693711"><p>To add on to [USER=6799753]@lowkey13[/USER] with my own story about local preparedness, I teach a class at our community college on weekends for phlebotomy students (the people who draw your blood). This Saturday we had a class, and while I was setting up in the back one of the other assistants was making an announcement about the corona virus situation.</p><p></p><p>It was, to paraphrase him, "nothing to worry about", "mostly just the media and politicians making a frenzy", "the flu kills thousands a year and nobody cares about that", "the only reason anyone cares about it is because the NBA cancelled games because they are worried about getting sued", "even the president isn't getting tested so you know it's not really a big deal", "even if you get it you'll probably be fine", the whole 9 yards. I swear to you this really happened, I am not repeating a story I heard from someone else or exaggerating a media report, I was in the room.</p><p></p><p>I was floored. This is a guy who is great at his job, whom I like and respect as a healthcare professional, but he was shovelling all this naughty word in front of these young, impressionable students who were looking for some reliable information and behavior to model their professional opinions on.</p><p></p><p>After he was done, I went up and made a follow-up announcement. I didn't directly contradict anything he said, because I think it's important not to have conflicting messages coming from positions of authority. But I restated the reasons why COVID-19 really is a different beast, and tried to emphasize our responsibilities as healthcare providers, that we need to really follow the information given by public health agencies because if we don't take it seriously, how can we expect civilians to do so, or to stay calm? I think underlining that we can be the difference between dozens or thousands of people getting sick, even dying, and being healthy got through to them, but it was hard.</p><p></p><p>But yeah, as if the virus wasn't bad enough, the alternate realities that different groups live in are just being reinforced by the alternate messages given by different sources/politicians/media companies. It's crazy how fragmented people's opinions on the seriousness of this situation, even within healthcare, often based on political persuasion and who a person listens to.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="slobster, post: 7943634, member: 6693711"] To add on to [USER=6799753]@lowkey13[/USER] with my own story about local preparedness, I teach a class at our community college on weekends for phlebotomy students (the people who draw your blood). This Saturday we had a class, and while I was setting up in the back one of the other assistants was making an announcement about the corona virus situation. It was, to paraphrase him, "nothing to worry about", "mostly just the media and politicians making a frenzy", "the flu kills thousands a year and nobody cares about that", "the only reason anyone cares about it is because the NBA cancelled games because they are worried about getting sued", "even the president isn't getting tested so you know it's not really a big deal", "even if you get it you'll probably be fine", the whole 9 yards. I swear to you this really happened, I am not repeating a story I heard from someone else or exaggerating a media report, I was in the room. I was floored. This is a guy who is great at his job, whom I like and respect as a healthcare professional, but he was shovelling all this naughty word in front of these young, impressionable students who were looking for some reliable information and behavior to model their professional opinions on. After he was done, I went up and made a follow-up announcement. I didn't directly contradict anything he said, because I think it's important not to have conflicting messages coming from positions of authority. But I restated the reasons why COVID-19 really is a different beast, and tried to emphasize our responsibilities as healthcare providers, that we need to really follow the information given by public health agencies because if we don't take it seriously, how can we expect civilians to do so, or to stay calm? I think underlining that we can be the difference between dozens or thousands of people getting sick, even dying, and being healthy got through to them, but it was hard. But yeah, as if the virus wasn't bad enough, the alternate realities that different groups live in are just being reinforced by the alternate messages given by different sources/politicians/media companies. It's crazy how fragmented people's opinions on the seriousness of this situation, even within healthcare, often based on political persuasion and who a person listens to. [/QUOTE]
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