Doctors Are Holding Up Their End of the Bargain. Society Is Not.
Sending health-care workers into hospitals with too few masks is a betrayal akin to sending soldiers into battle without armor.
Updated at 10:20 a.m. ET on April 26, 2020.
On Tuesday a candidate for the Connecticut Senate, J. T. Lewis of Sandy Hook, posted one of those suicidal tweets that goes off like a mortar shot straight up into the sky, with nothing to do but plummet back down onto the head of the one who fired it. Here it is, whistling back to Earth in its full contrarian glory:
Unpopular take: didn’t nurses and doctors sign up for this? I have respect for the great job they’re doing, but this is exactly what they signed up for.
The Easy Target Firing Squad rapidly and Lewis. Their points were good. Doctors and nurses signed up to care—not to
