So it’s my third appointment with an acupuncture doctor. There’s a little rapport we could build, feeling that she’s not as soft and fuzzy as before- seems she’s hardened in her tone of voice and manners since our last meeting so I’m curious.
I ask “How are YOU doing?” Normally I suppose a patient is not the one to ask the doctor. But. Here’s the reply…she quips:
I consider myself LUCKY I haven’t LOST anyone yet !
It’s come to this. It’s like wartime stories we’ve learned in history books we prayed we’d never experience in our lifetime.
Almost a year and a half since the first shelter in place announced, we now consider ourselves lucky if anyone in our immediate family hasn’t lost his/her life in this battle against the pandemic.
We can overcome this predicament if we all do our part and do what’s most responsible. It serves no one when unwilling to read and hear and truly study the facts, some adamantly digging one’s heels, blindly advocating personal freedom and unjust big pharmaceutical’s profits etc. Those points – are just a distraction to the bigger problem and distracts from tending to the real and immediate threat to solve the huge public health challenge at hand. We need a United front against this public health menace and enemy that looms over us daily.
