So let’s do it again and get it right, coronavirus isn’t going anywhere anytime soon.
Social distancing reveals that too many believe, that like "Superman," that they are invincible.
Some believe that it's biblical — and the Lord’s design.
Thus, they do as they may without appreciating what my father (a preacher) conveyed—"The Lord helps those who help themselves."
And many obfuscate on the issues of thise crisis; they're clouding the whole picture with unclear information.
A note for public health, which Johns Hopkins taught, and which hand washing demonstrates. If you want to control global disease, start simply.
While vaccinations may be important, clean water and sanitation are primary.
This requires an understanding of aquifers and how to maintain their purity.
A second wave of information is now showing that the destruction of the initial virus attacks is far from over.
These effects will be felt by some for a while.
It's clear that coronavirus is more than a respiratory ailment; it's a multisystem disease also attacking the nervous system, as well as the kidneys and brain — with strokes as a complication.
Hallucinations also occur.
Children who were once thought to be not at higher-risk are experiencing Kawasaki’s disease (inflammation of the vascular system).
Dialysis may end up being a need, a need as great as respirators before all of this is over.
When to truly re-open society will not totally rest on the advent of a vaccine.
Medicine alone cannot dictate such a time. It can only give parameters to consider.
No one has been clear as to when one is infective and how many negative carriers are out there. The evidence doesn’t clearly define if positive antibodies mean personal immunity (from further infections) or, the ability to transmit the disease to others.
The money for testing and all other bailouts probably now exceeds the gold in Fort Knox.
With AIDS, which still has no cure and can only be prevented by changing behavior, it has been individual viral load which has been a predictor of infectivity.
Some medicines used to treat that disease have been shown over time to have some side effects — acually compromising individuals.
A most impressive work for the coronavirus is that which few are talking about; it involves community viral loads taken from examining sewage.
This may prove helpful in determining environmental exposure to this virus, as well suggest a gastrointestinal component to the disease.
If the community’s viral load is high it may show a need for continued social distancing.
We don’t have enough data.
Van Jones, a frequently bombastic African American political analyst, is being excoriated by the media and black community for rightly suggesting that lifestyle choices severely impact on society’s expression of disease though the inequality of opportunity and lack of access to basic services, that these may worsen among minorities.
There is no doubt that Marijuana, alcohol consumption, and smoking negatively impact on one's immune system. Multiple sexual partners and other alternative sexual choices increase the risk for HPV, Herpes, AIDS and other viral diseases that kill us.
The old adage "you are what you eat" has implications for those who consume bats and non-domesticated animals. This exposes them as well (and the food chain for humans) to viral diseases.
What the second wave of the coronavirus will spawn is unfathomable.
What the economic disasters of prolonged unemployment and loss of work is doing could be even worse. As in war, non-perfect decisions are made, ones that have to be lived with.
We are likely to be at such a point in time.
Ada M. Fisher, MD, MPH is a former Medical Director in a Fortune 500 company, licensed teacher, retired physician, former county school board member, speaker, author of Common Sense Conservative Prescriptions Good for What Ails Us Book 1 (available through Amazon. Com) and is the NC Republican National Committeewoman. Read Dr. Ada M. Fisher's Reports — More Here.
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