Healthcare workers on the line are risking their physical and mental health right now, every bit helps. If the system relies on the same people holding it together for the next (few? many?) months on end without any reinforcements, it will not be sustainable.
Your wife is not wrong. But will she also ask you to sit out the next pandemic?
Your wife is not wrong. But will she also ask you to sit out the next pandemic?
This is also true. If you're not even provided proper PPE, screw that. You're not just some sacrifice for an administration's incompetence.It depends on where you are and what medical staff is treated like there. I am reading all sorts of stuff about some places having no ppe at all or having benefits cut and all sorts of mistreatment. If you are in one of those places then wait it out until there is more ppe and better support. If you are in a place where medical staff is seemingly treated with respect and where the ppe situation is at least modest then join up. As much as you want to jump in and help if you are given terrible support you can't do that anyway.