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How much do you like to gamble?

In the wake of a close-to-home friends death this week, and having the reality of the events before us sat upon my lap last night on shift... I feel compelled to share this morning’s thoughts before I even leave the parking garage at work.

You see, I had a few days off from work. Last night was my first shift back in over a week. I was given a “rule out” Covid-19 patient right from the get go. The thought settled in that this is now serious to me. This is now real. This would be my first. All my calm, prepared demeanor suddenly fled as I realized I would have to use all of the PPE (personal protection equipment) that is running short in some places in the US, to keep me safe.

MY first thought was, “do I have what I need to do this job, safely?” Thankfully the answer to that was a resounding yes.

Then, later the news came sweeping across my social media as I was eating my lunch last night; someone very well known in our area, someone my wife and friends all know, has passed from complications of Covid-19. He was a young, healthy, family man. Gone too soon. Too close to home and things I hold dear.

These two events have settled in this morning, along with an article I read, and it has me thinking, planning, worrying, and scared.

How much do you like to gamble?

Would you gamble with your life? Your Wife’s? Your Husbands, boyfriends, significant other?

How about your child or children?

Would you be willing to gamble that this year could be potentially your child’s last year to live? All of this based on your actions and choices made from your opinion about something you cannot fathom, or correctly comprehend.

Now let me add to that, it gets better.

If one of your loved ones does contract this disease and is taken to the hospital, guess who isn’t going to be sitting at their bedside while they are scared and alone? You guessed it, YOU will not be there with them. The hospitals are not taking visitors, and certainly not for quarantined patients.

That’s what a quarantine is. Alone.

Is that how you want your loved one to have to experience potentially the end of their life, alone and void of their family slowly and chronically dying off on a ventilator?

Then go ahead and gamble.

Gamble that you know better than those fighting on the front lines. Gamble your children’s future, or their future without even you. Gamble things are as benign as you think they are, and nothing will come of this.

I hope you’re right, I really do hope your right, but I’m not willing to gamble that nothing will happen if I just ignore the signs and the experts.

I can’t say this any clearer than I am right here and right now as a terrified Nurse, Husband and Father...

STAY HOME IF YOU DON’T HAVE SOMETHING URGENT TO DO OUT IN PUBLIC!

Wash your hands and don’t wear gloves out and about in public. You’re just helping perpetuate it.

Don’t travel or hang out at your friends house because “social distancing just means fewer people and it’s okay!” Don’t be a fool.

I’m going to go home now, strip off my work clothes on the front porch, put them right in the washer, head straight to a hot shower, tell my family how much I Love them, and sleep in the spare room.

This is just starting. I’m not gambling.

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