Flattening the Curve - Social Distancing

Social distancing is not about fear or panic, it is about compassion and love. As a public health professional, the daughter of a recent lung transplant recipient, and someone who has a grandparent who was just hospitalized with “unknown caused pneumonia”...please take social distancing seriously. Even if those that are most compromised and vulnerable stay home, they still often depend on family members and health care professionals daily. Stay home because you have compassion for a friend/coworker like me who has a mom in the ICU. Stay home because you feel for the moms and dads who have immunocompromised kiddos and want this dang virus to pass as fast as possible. Stay home because your heart is full of love for your 96 year old neighbor who depends on a granddaughter to come visit to cook and do laundry. Stay home because you have deep gratitude for the nurses and physicians who are doing their best in our overwhelmed ERs. There is still much to be learned about this virus but we all need to do our part to “flatten the curve”.

Here is a great example of why social distancing (staying home even if you feel healthy) is important : tinyurl.com/v78fmrg

Not everyone can stay home. For those of you who are out there, risking your health so that everyone else can maintain normalcy...you are AMAZING.

I am so thankful for you.

There is NO place for panic and fear.

Just COMPASSION and LOVE.

xoxo (from a distance),

Nicole