No, theyâre not, and I think they should be. To me, calling people heroes is a way of saying they deserve extreme gratitude-- which in this case should take many forms. I do agree that theyâre not getting that.
I really, really hope thatâs a joke, but Iâm scared to check and find out.
I have a close friend who is high up in hospital administration in one of the top hospitals in Chicago. She normally commutes in from the âgreater Chicagoland areaâ, which means even with no traffic her home is about 40 minutes away: tough to stay awake to commute if youâre working 20+ hour days, plus 2 out of 3 family members at home have severe asthma. Normally in a highly critical situation at the hospital, she stays with us insteadâŚbut for this she canât, because I am even more at risk than her asthmatic family members. So sheâs worked out a deal with a hotel not too far away. Whoâs paying for it? She is. She was part of the negotiations to get another, closer hotel to open rooms to hospital personnel, but theyâre prioritizing nurses â for obvious reasons â so she doesnât want to take up a donated room there. The reason they can (barely) afford the hotel is because theyâre both medical and thus are continuing to get their salaries, and they live quite frugally otherwise. But she knows that she might never see her family again, if (when) she catches it herself.
That is what itâs like to be a hospital employee here in Chicago right now. And thatâs administration, not even front-line doctors/nurses.
But that IS being heroic.
The actions of others do not reflect upon you. Your actions can be heroic while being treated as expendable, it might even be considered a common thread in heroic actions.
The article headline:
Calling health care workers âheroesâ erases just how terrified and exposed they really are
And from one of my kidâs childhood books:
Bravery is what you do even when you are scared.
The title caption (in the program bar, not part of the article itself) on that article is a little different:
Health care workers during the coronavirus pandemic arenât just heroes. Theyâre terrified and exposed too.
Iâm sure Iâve got some biases. My wife is a nurse, my sonâs best friendâs mom is a doctor in a nursing home, one of my best friends is a PA at a pulmonary clinic and is terrified of how many of her patients sheâs going to lose over the next year.
So with all apologies, @docsoc, hard disagree.
The hero tag is whatâs applied by those that can see it. The bastards in charge may mouth the words and not give any support, but for me:
So, thank you.
Heres a hero and a true leader, who knowingly and willingly lays down his career for his crew.
Trump will never know what this even means, but this should damn well be the standard we hold our leaders to.
Does anyone else think this is a terrible time to have an academic debate over the meaning of the word âheroâ?
And this is the tangible result of âleadershipâ as we currently are experiencing it.
Keep an eye on this. It may be because of the need to limit # of people in an office. But donât be entirely surprised if it just somehow mysteriously stays this way.
Well shit. But also totally predictable. And on that fine note, I need to get back to work.
Another way to be a hero:
Indeed. Good thing no one here is doing that.
The moment that Doctor Ozâs name was mentioned: Hands to spider attack formation!
Theyâre still renewing passports supposedly.
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/us-passport-emergencies/index.html
