Spare the prose and pass the pictures! E.g.,
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ohio-covid-case-growth-exponential/ CBS News, ©CBS Interactive, Tuesday, November 24, 2020.
Covid Fatigue sounds new to the ears. It describes all of us who are tired of a pandemic and all the ways it has disrupted our daily lives.
Social distancing.
Masks.
Hand sanitizers.
And more, much more.
Yet we live in a country now which does not respond to words as much as we respond to pictures. Sometimes we act as though "it did not happen" if there are no pictures of it.
So spare the prose about what it means to be in a hospital ICU with COVID. Show us the pictures.
If you show us the pictures, we may travel a little less this Thanksgiving, some of us. Millions are on the road this Thanksgiving carrying the infection with them all across the nation. "This is a recipe for disaster," says one of the people interviewed on the CBS News video clip in this article.
The report shows some of what it's like inside a COVID ward in a hospital, but only briefly. It's a beginning. But it's not enough, yet. 8 months into this, and it's not enough yet.
Show us the pictures.
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