I don’t know what to do to support our stressed health care workers, other than to say the 730,000 thank-yous they deserve. Every day, they go into harm’s way to battle a virus that sends them more and more hospital patients. They hear too much argument and not enough gratitude.
I’m proud to be married to a health care worker. She reminds me to be thankful for the non-medical workers who risk getting COVID-19 because they, too, work on our hospital floors, often for lower pay.
We’re arguing too much. But we can’t argue with infectious disease Dr. Megan Clancy, who shared these words at a recent city meeting the mayor couldn’t attend.
She testified that hospital workers now have to decide “which one of those ICU-level patients get the last bed... I don’t know how many of us go through life having to decide who’s going to get the critical life-saving care... People are dying. They are sometimes dying alone.”
Our biggest thank-you would be to act in ways that don’t help this virus thrive.
— Les Gara
Anchorage
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