When your family members are sick and you bring them to a hospital or a clinic, you expect medical professionals to do their very best to treat, stabilize, and save them. And we absolutely do our very best. We agonize when someone dies in our care despite our best efforts.
Why can’t you do the same? Why can’t you do your very best to protect your loved ones, friends and strangers? What gives you a pass? Some high-falutin' notion of freedom? Some puff-out-your-chest-I’m-gonna-stand-my-ground-show-em-who’s-boss attitude? This nasty little COVID-19 bug doesn’t care about your politics. It sickens the red and blue equally. We in health care don’t care about your politics either. We just do our very best on your behalf.
Fellow Alaskans, it is time you stepped up and took responsibility for the lives of others (including strangers). Why do you so willingly risk the lives of your friends, your family and strangers by stubbornly refusing to wear masks and social distance? You expect us medical professionals to do our part? Then do your part.
— Theresa Philbrick
Anchorage
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