OPINION: I'm a doctor stuck in quarantine in Melbourne — our strategy is failing frontline workers
There has been considerable media debate around suppression vs elimination with commentary from epidemiologists and business leaders.
In fact, I am writing this from hotel quarantine after exposure to a presymptomatic colleague who caught COVID-19, most likely via community transmission.Dr Aaron Bloch is in hotel quarantine after a colleague contracted coronavirus.From my own perspective — widely shared by my colleagues — suppression cannot win.
But we are human. At the core of our humanity is the desire for touch and intimacy. Who hasn't hugged someone in the past three months? Who hasn't slipped at least once in their social distancing as the threat appeared to recede? Try as we might, natural instincts will break through. Once is all it takes.
This time around, our stocks of PPE, medicine and ventilators are bolstered, but our physical and emotional resilience is depleted.
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