TESTS AND SUPPLIES NEEDED FOR ALL MEDICAL WORKERS
Testing is still extremely limited. Beyond the elderly and the already infected, the single most crucial demographic right now who needs REGULAR testing and who is not getting it are the medical workers.
Not just doctors and nurses, but all of the techs and support staffs. They are all daily exposed and they are all fully capable of catching and continuously spreading the virus. And none of them can stay at home. And all of them have families, neighbors and communities they can bring it home too.
It needs to be called for RIGHT NOW that all medical staff get tested each day before and after their shifts.
Every moment these medical workers are thinking about their patients, they are also being normal people who are simultaneously thinking about their families.
You want them to keep going to work like the soldiers they are and fighting this thing? You want them to keep you and your family, neighbors and community safe?
Well then, PUSH for their health and testing.
Given short supplies, hospital management everywhere is trying to convince its workers that it is okay to reuse N95 masks after contact with the infected. This simply is not true.
This is where we are. We’re at the moment when our front line of defense is being put at the greatest risk without sufficient tools to defend. We’re at a moment where the front line can buckle.
Companies like Tesla are switching production to make ventilators and other supplies. Small businesses like Tailors are making homemade masks as if they were Rosie the Rivetter.
Republican Congress wants a huge corporate bailout in the stimulus package. Well NOT for NOTHING.
Companies who would seek the largest portions of bailout monies should be eligible not for the losses they’ve incurred so far—-but based on what precisely they are doing to pitch in and fight this thing.
In WWII many of our businesses switched production and service to aid and assist in the war effort. We need that now. We need supplies produced here and now. Tests and equipment.
Spread the word. Make a push. This has to come from the bottom up—-because the top is still thinking more about the future political implications of any of these actions and less about the present health implications of not taking bold, swift and decisive measures.
Nobody should be thinking about what will happen in November. Only about how well we will emerge from April.