Stay Home, Save Lives

It was a centerpiece of a carefully-crafted, hugely successful campaign aimed at persuading the populace that a new disease was “spreading” — a silent disease they may already be “infected” with and could unwittingly pass to others.

Staying home, we were told, was critical to helping frontline workers save people from the spreading disease and making sure hospitals weren’t overrun with suddenly-sick patients.

In the U.S., this effort included an open letter from more than 20 healthcare professionals, published in USA Today on the Ides of March, 2020. (Accessible here and reproduced in full at the end of the post.)

https://www.woodhouse76.com/p/15-march-2020-stay-home-save-lives