What I’ve Learned This Spring

As Covid begins to wane, we cannot forget how burned out the nurses, aides, and doctors have become due to the excessive demands upon them over the last year and a half. Aides in particular have been stressed because they are paid so little that they have to often work two jobs just to make ends meet.
The Covid epidemic has taught us about the futility of trying to get things perfect. No matter how hard we strive to make things perfect, we never quite reach the goal. As opposed to striving for perfection, we need to learn to manage with what we have.
The Covid experience has sharpened our awareness of who our good friends and family members truly are. Who has stayed connected to you over this time and who have you rarely heard from? This should give a pretty clear picture about whom to focus your attention on in the future.
While many describe some positive learnings as a result of having lived through the Covid crisis, the pain of having lost someone or having suffered long-term consequences as the result of the illness is devastating and life altering.
The pattern of who has lived and who has died has helped us to see the consequences of economic disparities among our citizens. Furthermore, the economic disparities are highly related to educational disparities. We must focus on giving children a better education, and thus a better chance to succeed economically.
For true healing to occur, our minds and our bodies must converge.
Men’s attitudes toward health care are detrimental to our well-being. Many men die because they are embarrassed to seek timely health care.
Illness changes everything. All of the goals and priorities that we had before, become irrelevant as we try to regain health and help those we love to recover.