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Heardoc's avatar

Wonderful article, as usual. As I speak with my patients who are 70+ and just received their 5th booster (or are we on to 6 now? I don’t remember), are wearing a tight KN95 which is permanently damaging their outer ear and likely compressing their ear canal (but hey, I’m sure their hearing is perfect anyway), and talking to me about safety, I’m thinking “what are you saving yourself from?” They drive to the appointment in their car (are they not also fearful of a car accident?) they ate breakfast (are they not also fearful of choking?) they used a public restroom, they did so many things that could possibly end their lives. But did so without consideration, without fear. What are they so afraid of with Covid? We have medicines, we have knowledge about the disease and how to best treat it, the hospitals aren’t full to capacity.

As a fellow healthcare provider, one who also works with the elderly, we (as a society) have neglected these people and treat them with such a lack of respect it’s sad. They are our history, full of wisdom and knowledge. They should be revered. What an honor to work with them. I feel privileged to work with them.

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yendi's avatar

as usual, beautifully written, you could contemplate to write a book on the subject which will include your experience with covid, masks, social distancing, etc... and then tackle your field of medecine that is the least glamorous and paid for all the obvious reasons (youth obsession, productivity rationale, fear of death or rather the dying, including self denial and a genuine human reluctance to want to come to terms with our own decay. I would be happy to help. Thank you for your work.

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