Don’t give the gift of COVID this holiday season
As we sit watching the presidency unfold and COVID rates sky rocketing, we must ask if our nations experts are following outdated policies to combat the modern pandemic.
Many states developed multi-phase reopening plans and moved forward over the summer from phase one being an almost lockdown to phase two and three, but none of the experts stopped to ask if phase one was in control.
As an occupational therapist, before I can clinically progress a patient I am working with, I have to make sure they are stable in the current approach and it is working to allow me to build upon for their recovery. As a lean six sigma black belt, before I can say a process redesign is complete, I have to make sure the process is in control. Both notions I used in my clinical practice to help people overcome their aliments, yet who we are looking too, highly educated and regarded experts on COVID are failing to follow these basic concepts.
When you go back to late spring when many states had plans in place, they may have appeared to have flattened the curve which many experts called for, yet they failed to do what other countries now at net zero did. Simply put, they failed to refine phase one to assure the curve was flat or starting to project downward. Sure, we can blame an outgoing presidential administration for pushing to re-open, but states were left to reopen under their expert’s guidance, not federal mandates.
As we look at the incoming new
We need to look at the approaching holidays and know that federal and state governments are at a loss, utilizing scapegoats rather than taking the tough road to advise and develop sound, logical guidelines to allow for a clear collective effort to be pushed out.
executive administration, we see those same experts picked to sit on the next COVID task force. Promising science and logic, but are we really obtaining logic? Or are we getting what we have had all along just without the side banter of an outgoing administration. We need to look at the approaching holidays and know that federal and state governments are at a loss, utilizing scapegoats rather than taking the tough road to advise and develop sound, logical guidelines to allow for a clear collective effort to be pushed out.
We need to prepare the nation now for the upcoming holiday season as in a few weeks, families will travel around the nation and gather in small bunches. This will only further spread the virus.
As nation we all must do our logical civic duty and wear a mask while out in public, physically distance, wash our hands, and not gather in even small groups. This small sacrifice can help pay off in the long run by keeping our nation going, save lives, the economy, and our overall mental health.
Let’s not give the gift of COVID this holiday season but the gift of logic.