California seems to be having difficulty maintaining its COVID defenses, some observers say. How else do you explain 31,000 deaths? Despite issuing the first state stay-at-home order that aimed to keep these below 2,000? The death toll was almost that number in Los Angeles last week. What is going on in the place with the nickname Eureka, I found gold. Has fatigue hit California defenses too hard?
It’s Difficult to Keep Rowing Against the Flow
‘The people are tired,’ Dr. Neha Nanda, of Keck School of Medicine told BBC’s Regan Morris and Sophie Long. ‘It’s multifaceted, but fatigue is a big reason why,’ she continued.
That’s not difficult to understand, given ‘makeshift morgues across the state’ according to some. And from what we’ve heard, ambulance crews being told ‘not to transport terminally ill patients to over-stretched ICU’s’. When they might not last the night, and someone with better prospects ‘should have the hospital bed’.
However, experience teaches us we have to keep rowing to prevent the torrent flooding the boat. ABC11 News spoke to Dr. Samantha Meltzer-Brody, chair of the department of psychiatry at University of California for advice. If California finally unmasks after yet another long month, what happens after that?
Life Goes On After Fatigue Hit California COVID Defenses Hard
The COVID wave could start receding across the length and breadth of California within a month. That’s provided Californians remember fate is in their hands, and their breath. What happens then, when they find a backwater to tether their virtual boat and explore the land?
‘People are wrestling with where we were, what we’ve been through,’ says Dr. Samantha Meltzer-Brody. ‘I often think of it as a cell phone battery and now everyone is down on one percent barely.’ Fatigue has hit California defenses hard.
She suggests starting small when the shutters roll up again. ‘Perhaps a day trip to the beach or the mountains will do some good. How about reaching out with a small act kindness to people you’ve lost connection to?’ That could be the first step as we leave the tunnel.
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