Coronavirus #4: The Foolishness of Opening the Economy Now

There have been many, many TV shows about doctors. But for my money the most accurate one was the NBC comedy Scrubs. Scrubs was not always factually correct, but it captured the mood and vibe of hospital life better than any show I've ever seen.

There is a particular episode that I have thought a lot about during the pandemic. In it, an a doctor in his first year of residency training was struggling in his work, and after a series of failures he was asked to leave the training program. On the day he was fired, he was walking down the hall of the hospital and picked up a glove contaminated with a dangerous bacterium and put it in a trash can. Without washing his hands, he walked into a favorite patient's room and shook her hand to say goodbye, and in doing so transferred the infection to the patient.

She died of the infection in the next episode.

That's coronavirus, in a nutshell. More and more I see goofballs popping up and saying the young have little to fear, and it isn't worth shutting down the economy for the sake of a "1% death rate."

To you I say: The life you take won't be your own.