What if They Gave a Pandemic…

And most of us just read about it on social media?

Photo Credit — Metropolitan Transportation Authority of the State of New York / Wikimedia Commons

Reading the below post by Zita Fontaine this morning nudged me to write about a similar phenomenon happening right at the current epicenter of the pandemic.

When Reality Becomes Too Unreal to Believe It

It’s only because of a telephone conversation with my friend, Nico, that I found out that Mt. Sinai is building a 70-bed tent hospital inside Central Park over in the East Meadow. That’s how small my world has gotten. The East Meadow is maybe a twenty-minute walk from here or a three-minute bus ride, but most of us aren’t riding many buses these days.

Globally, our worlds have gotten very small. Many of us have retreated to our lairs that afford an electronic view of the big, scary world out there.

I have had some limited experience with the madness of a city emergency room, Bellevue Hospital no less, and can’t even begin to wrap my head around what it must be like in these ERs now.