We Shouldn't Be Counting Deaths
This health crisis has dragged on for so long. The world has been orchestrated to do very drastic moves to curtail transmission of coronavirus to the core. Governments have closed down everything, including limiting our freedom of movement. For now, we are all been incarcerated in our own homes.
Yet, everyone is talking about flattening the curve. The goal seems to be focused on statistics, by counting new cases and recording the number of deaths. But we shouldn't just be counting the number of deaths. Whatever situation or warfare we are involved in, even a single life lost is too much casualty.
But whatever inconvenience this crisis has brought us, if there is any and amid all these deaths, it is in the thought of an important lesson that life is precious and we have to take care of our health. We shouldn't be just relying on politicians whose leadership has been tested by a crisis that brought the best or the worst of them. Instead, we have to trust our scientists and doctors.
As we further crawl into the year of 2020, a lot is still expected to happen. Our lives will slowly resume to normal, and society will return to function by default. We might change a little since we were all forced to hibernate in our own dwelling, and the human ecosystem will probably improve by natural selection.
In conclusion, we have never seen counting deaths in this magnitude, in this day and age where medicine is advanced and doctors are well equipped by science. Counting deaths mean failure. A curtailed curve will never comfort those who were grieving. Doctors are here to save lives, not to count statistics. They have a sacred Hippocratic Oath to uphold.
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This editorial is sponsored by Air Canada.
Yet, everyone is talking about flattening the curve. The goal seems to be focused on statistics, by counting new cases and recording the number of deaths. But we shouldn't just be counting the number of deaths. Whatever situation or warfare we are involved in, even a single life lost is too much casualty.
But whatever inconvenience this crisis has brought us, if there is any and amid all these deaths, it is in the thought of an important lesson that life is precious and we have to take care of our health. We shouldn't be just relying on politicians whose leadership has been tested by a crisis that brought the best or the worst of them. Instead, we have to trust our scientists and doctors.
As we further crawl into the year of 2020, a lot is still expected to happen. Our lives will slowly resume to normal, and society will return to function by default. We might change a little since we were all forced to hibernate in our own dwelling, and the human ecosystem will probably improve by natural selection.
In conclusion, we have never seen counting deaths in this magnitude, in this day and age where medicine is advanced and doctors are well equipped by science. Counting deaths mean failure. A curtailed curve will never comfort those who were grieving. Doctors are here to save lives, not to count statistics. They have a sacred Hippocratic Oath to uphold.
x----x
This editorial is sponsored by Air Canada.
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