Showing posts with label SARS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SARS. Show all posts

Friday, March 13, 2020

Covid-19: How To Prevent Our Hospitals From Collapsing



The great Canadian cartoonist Michael de Adder drew that one seventeen years ago, during the SARS outbreak. But it works just as well today.

For it reflects what many people all over Canada are feeling about the latest killer virus, Covid-19, as it keeps ramping up. 

Shock. Fear. Panic. Stunned confusion. Madness.

But as for me, I just hope Canadians can be made to understand one of the biggest lessons of SARS: 

Protect our hospitals and health workers, or watch a pandemic turn into a living nightmare.