For such a brief moment it was wonderful to believe that we might relive something resembling normalcy, whatever that might have once meant. It will not happen and we have to make that okay, which it cannot be. We will lose people dear to us, from the youngest to the oldest, and we must be ready for that immediately. I’m not prepared at all and I am not being or feeling negative.
Related Off-site Links:
History Won’t Help Us Now: We Have No Historical Precedent for This Moment – Howard Markel (The Atlantic, August 19, 2021).
Unvaccinated COVID-19 Patients Strain Alabama Hospitals Amid Warning of “Potentially Apocalyptic” Crisis – Brett Wilkins (Common Dreams, August 19, 2021).
Alabama Hospitals Run Out of ICU Beds. Chaplain Says It's a Frightening Situation – A. Martinez (NPR News, August 20, 2021).
Minnesota ICU Beds Filling Again With COVID-19 Patients, Some From Out of State – Jeremy Olson (Star Tribune, August 20, 2021).
U.S. Hospitalizations of People Under 50 at Highest Levels Since Start of Pandemic – The Guardian (August 19, 2021).
As a Doctor in a COVID Unit, I’m Running Out of Compassion for the Unvaccinated. Get the Shot – Anita Sircar (Los Angeles Times, August 17, 2021).
As Covid-19 Cases Rise, Global Task Force Lays Out How to Avert Future Pandemics – Jessica Corbett (Common Dreams, August 14, 2021).
America’s Coronavirus Outbreak Is Now a Patchwork of Highly Vaccinated States and Pockets of the Raging Delta Variant – Barbara Miller (ABC News, August 15, 2021).
The Far Right’s Deadly Embrace of Anti-Vaccine Stupidity – John Feffer (Common Dreams, August 14, 2021).
Child Hospitalization for COVID-19 Hits All-Time High in U.S. – Common Dreams (August 14, 2021).
Over 20,000 Mississippi Students in COVID Quarantine After First Week of School – Antonio Planas (NBC News, August 13, 2021).
Don’t Be a Schmuck. Put on a Mask – Arnold Schwarzenegger (The Atlantic, August 13, 2021).
How the Pandemic Now Ends – Ed Yong (The Atlantic, August 12, 2021).
See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• Something to Lament
• A Pandemic Year
• Out and About – Spring 2020
• A Prayer in Times of a Pandemic
• The Calm Before the Storm
• Hope and Beauty in the Midst of the Global Coronavirus Pandemic
• Marianne Williamson: In the Midst of This “Heartbreaking” Pandemic, It’s Okay to Be Heartbroken
• Sonya Renee Taylor: Quote of the Day – April 18, 2020
• Examining the Link Between Destruction of Biodiversity and Emerging Infectious Diseases
• The Lancet Weighs-in on the Trump Administration's “Incoherent” Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic
• Memes of the Times
Image 1: Richard LaFortune. (Photo: Richard LaFortune)
Image 2: COVID-19 transmission cases in the U.S. for August 17, 2021. According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the current 7-day average of daily new cases is 130,121. This is 13.2% higher than the previous 7-day period, and 1,016.8% higher than the lowest daily average in June 2021.
Image 3: Staff tend to patients in a hallway at The Woodlands Hospital in Houston, Texas – August 18, 2021. Texas – along with Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi – is experiencing a crisis in which over 90% of intensive care unit beds are full due to surging COVID-19 hospitalizations fueled largely by unvaccinated patients. (Photo: Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
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