Commentary: On the COVID front lines, we're tired of hearing lame excuses for risky behavior

In my world, there is a lot of anger — most of it kept professionally hidden.

In emergency rooms and intensive care units across the country, front-line nurses, respiratory therapists and doctors like me have been in danger every day for eight months. Smothered in PPE, we're doused in coronavirus every day while we take care of the very sick, the worried well and the dying. Some of the dead aren't patients; some are colleagues, friends and our own families.

We are furious and we are exhausted. And now we face again the flooding of our