Anyone else have an ominous feeling that April's going to be a really tough month in the US? I'm kinda dreading the next 4 weeks. (Because as much as the infection rates may have started to inflect, what with patchwork-distancing, we know those death numbers time-lag, and those're going to be the big emotional hits....)
@nitsua60 Yeah, this is gonna be rough. Guam's used to "hunker down and wait" being a legit emergency technique, but we're used to it on the scale of days.
And we haven't seen the kinds of death numbers we'll probably get from this, since... WWII. Which is a generational trauma.
We've got 500 staffed beds available on island right now. The absolute minimum projected need for simultaneous beds is a thousand, if we do everything right.
(Which is one reason I'm glad our governor got ahead of events and made a deal with the military for health aid in exchange for hotel accommodations, instead of waiting to be ordered to let the sailors bunk in our hotels with no obligation of compensation.)
@nitsua60 Ursula Vernon just tweeted about how this is a generation-defining experience similar to growing up in the Cold War. Which is different from generational trauma, but also a lens to keep in mind.