Immune Response

There is a deep seated disquiet about. A global nervousness that I cannot help but feel. Do you feel it too? If I am to presume you are reading this then it seems like you must. Personally I do not have any fear for these days, my own is a fairly strong approach in fact. I just feel nervous for others as they do for themselves, an empathy between cell walls. My mind plays scenarios by which a clever idea at the right time could save millions, but sadly I'd play it off key by their estimation.

Namely right now, we should be testing people who have gotten sick in the last month and offering any who test positive (I think this can be tested retroactively? Like indicate those who have gotten the virus and already fought it off? Even carriers would be okay for these purposes) a paid emergency role in healthcare. Broad healthcare is complicated to be sure, the skills needed to aid in an outbreak would necessarily be less so, and hopefully significantly less. The training should be linear and condensed/focused: testing and treating the worst symptoms of the virus. Something akin to martial law could be implemented, but the rights removed are the rights to sue for one's healthcare during an emergency. The Hippocratic Oath will be observed across the board, including by the waves of bright eyed heroes stepping in right in the nick of time, knowing little more than how to insert and change an IV and intubate- those with a empathetic heart to step back into the storm they have already weathered so others may live.

I am not saying these assistants can replace doctors or nurses. I am saying that in the worst of times, when the options are lose patients because doctors and nurses are unavailable, lose doctors and nurses because they are truly exhausted (and then lose patients), or having these medical professionals train a class of 10-30, taking the most naturally talented to the front of this war to amplify, reinforce, and provide rest amidst the storm, then that same Oath demands you bring in reinforcements. Start with the medical students already out of class due to quarantine, but who have already gotten the virus. How many military medics in training can be retasked for this? Consider the other professions whose dexterity and resilience may come in particularly handy in this exact crisis, and have likely already been exposed and then displaced from their normal jobs. We likely have about a week left here, and if I knew I was already immune to the virus and I could start class tomorrow to start helping save lives next Monday, I would absolutely do it. Make it worthwhile, make it lucrative, make one's normal role secure (like jury duty), this choice will already carry a natural air of heroism to it, but amplify that if you can.

Manufacturing plants could be repurposed to produce the supplies and durable medical goods needed most- let us learn from other countries further down this path and be prepared with respirators. What else can be used to provide breath? What other inventors will toss and turn tonight before that spark of some new emergency protocol idea wakes them from their dreams tomorrow and they run wild eyed to an open armed system which is ready to receive and ultimately compensate them for coming up with a symptom mitigating tool that shifts the mortality rate 1% and ultimately saves 10 million lives. This will not be the last global crisis, and I personally would love to find myself in a world where, as it turns out, when push comes to shove we are resilient and brilliant and collectively indomitable in the best possible way as a species. Responding in this way to crisis will result in a culture of being able to respond in this way in crises of all kinds.

The key is finding the first wave, which passed in secret, and incentivizing them to save the second wave which approaches fast, while the rest hole up. Then waves one and two can assist the rest in turn, hopefully with a vaccine around the corner, but prepared even if not. I can see it all, I cannot help but be exhilarated by the possibility of rallying so powerfully against a common enemy in what is certainly a war- kingdom against kingdom. Sadly my personal motivation is stemmed by my lack of voice. If you are reading this, and decide to take your voice, full of volume, and run with this simple motivational/logistical concept; if you want to save the world just like I do, but share no interests beyond that with me, don't site your source, I would never tell a soul. Take it, take it all, do with these thoughts what I cannot- sing a rallying cry loudly and on key, I will remain gladly unsung if it means this concept grows wings and takes flight.