COVID-19: Health leader gives tough love we need
Sometimes the truth is unpopular. As parents, we understand this.
We make decisions that are wildly unpopular with our kids but that are in their best interest. No, you can’t watch TV all day. No, you can’t have candy for dinner.
But the rage we face in parenting pales in comparison to the outbursts we have seen in response to safety measures put in place to control the spread of the coronavirus.
Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department Director Dr. Anthony Chen is a hero. He is showing tremendous courage in pushing forth recommendations to close schools and potentially re-enter Phase 1.
It is hard to get up and speak truth based on data-driven science when so many people do not want to hear it. We need to think of community health as a shared resource, and the more we overstep or ignore health guidelines, the more we damage our community.
Problems like this seem abstract on an individual level until suddenly they are not.
Optimism has yet to prove a viable strategy in combating COVID-19.
Riley Meinershagen, Fircrest
This story was originally published August 8, 2020 at 6:38 PM with the headline "COVID-19: Health leader gives tough love we need."