And they think they should go into quarantine for a week every time they hear a politician say, “Look,” before lying about something. Everyone knows that cigarettes are safer than somebody wearing a mask who is vaccinated coughing 30 feet from you. Two of my employees ran outside to hide-I mean, to smoke. A contact lens rep came in and coughed through their mask. The staff’s response to COVID seems to be one of paranoia. But when an 82-year-old World War II veteran who fought at Normandy reaches his hand out, I am shaking it. Sorry, I know some of you think I should chop my hands off at the wrist after such a terrible act. I just assume they are singing “Happy Birthday” twice while they watch.Īnd, I have only shook hands with someone probably two times in the past two years. Of course, now I wash my hands in front of the patient. I wash my hands as I have done between every patient over the past 42 years. I mean yes, I am vaccinated and I wear a mask when I should, when with the staff or patients or when I am asked to by a business. Has that been studied? If you see Fauci, could you run that by him, please? Never happens on a yucky weather afternoon. Seems like when the day is sunny and beautiful, that somehow triggers COVID. This has happened a little too frequently lately. My first three patients this afternoon all called in with COVID. 'Uncomfortable questions' for AustraliaĪustralia is now charting its own way out of the coronavirus pandemic, with politicians and pundits weighing the effects the lockdowns are having on case numbers against the economic toll.Ĭolumnists have used that very term, keep calm and carry on, while others have put forward ideas with a distinctly similar flavour.įormer Prime Minister Tony Abbott doubled down on this kind of philosophy this week, calling for COVID-19 restrictions to be relaxed and saying authorities had to confront "uncomfortable questions".I write because I have the time. "It was the closing months of the war, a lot of people were dying, a few flu deaths here and there didn't make much difference," Mark Honigsbaum, a medical historian and author of The Pandemic Century, told the Telegraph.ĭr Honigsbaum estimates this "carry on" advice may have led to thousands of additional deaths in Britain during the pandemic. The Spanish flu is thought to have claimed 228,000 British lives. So what does this have to do with the "keep calm and carry on" slogan?Įnter Arthur Newsholme, Britain's senior medical officer. "The entire military industrial complex of moving lots of men and material in crowded conditions was certainly a huge contributing factor in the ways the pandemic spread." "The rapid movement of soldiers around the globe was a major spreader of the disease," James Harris, a historian at Ohio State University, told the History Channel. It was with this in mind, and against the backdrop of the Great War, that the trouble began.
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Symptoms did include high fever and lethargy, but they generally lasted a few days, and there is data to suggest the mortality rates were similar to the seasonal flu. The virus would go on to infect 500 million people and estimates of the death toll range from 20 million to 100 million. We're running out of cemeteries", perhaps alluding to conflicting media reports of the pandemic. A cartoon of the Naples Soldier, which was a metaphor for the Spanish flu in Spain. The caption reads roughly: "Latest: The flu is still appearing as harmless.