{"id":2854,"date":"2020-04-03T11:56:12","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T15:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/?p=2854"},"modified":"2020-04-03T11:56:17","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T15:56:17","slug":"a-day-in-the-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2020\/04\/03\/a-day-in-the-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"A Day in the Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Track Meets<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Got up early this morning \u2013 had to get a workout in before \u201conline\u201d school began.  I stepped outside to take the trash to the street.  It was cold, clear, with stars in the sky, and the hint of a much warmer day to come.  It was a \u201ctrack meet\u201d day in early April.  The kids would have to do more warm-up to get going for the early races in the cool, but it would heat up enough by finals to run fast, throw far and jump high.  I\u2019m an old track coach:  it\u2019s not too often I miss track meets to my core, but this morning it was a \u201ctrack meet day\u201d.   I went back into my elliptical machine and \u201cMorning Joe<\/em>\u201d, back to our world of COVID-19 and desperate pleas from New York. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s no track meet today, not here, not anywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Command<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Desperate pleas might be the theme today.  The Captain of the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt<\/em> was fired yesterday.  Corona-virus was moving through his crew of 5000 sailors, and he was desperate to find a way to separate the infected from the well.  Obviously, his \u201cchain of command\u201d wasn\u2019t responding to his requests, and he wrote an email to a wider spread of the Naval commanders. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the first rules of military command structure, is don\u2019t go out of your \u201cchain\u201d, and even more, don\u2019t make your superior officers look bad.  But there\u2019s another rule of command.  As Captain of the ship, you are fully and ultimately responsible for what happens.  You can\u2019t push it onto a junior officer and you can\u2019t share the blame.  Captain Crozier knew full well that his career was in jeopardy by pushing for a solution to the problem.  But he also knew full well the burden of command.  His sailors were more important to him than his career.  So he paid the price, and took care of the problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They gave him a standing ovation as he left the hanger deck<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Desperation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Mayor Bill DeBlasio of New York is desperate.  He\u2019s looking at the burgeoning crisis:  the hospitals are filling, the medical personnel are worn thin, and he only has enough ventilators to cover through Monday.  That\u2019s this Monday, three days from now.  After that, medical personnel will have to begin choosing who gets to live and who gets to die.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DeBlasio is begging the military:  mobilize the military medical professionals and send them to New York.  The doctors, nurses, respiratory therapists tnere are overwhelmed, and tired.  Many are sick, and some are sick from the corona-virus they are constantly exposed to.  Some have gone from caregivers to care-needers.  And some have died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They too cannot bear up for much longer without help.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh Captain!!<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Mayor knows that his demands are going out of \u201cthe chain of command\u201d.   Even if his oft-political rival the Governor joins him, the President is already on the record as saying New York \u201chas enough\u201d.  Mr. Trump was immediate in responding to New York Senator Schumer\u2019s statement yesterday morning.  It\u2019s like the President wants New York\u2019s leaders to beg, and when they do, he still doesn\u2019t respond.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Governor Cuomo and Mayor DeBlasio don’t often agree, but on this issue they are on the same page.  We need a Federal \u201cstrike force\u201d, a militarized medical team that can \u201cfly\u201d into the crisis with personnel, equipment, and experience.  They need them in New York today, and for the next couple weeks.  Then they\u2019ll need them in other places, in Detroit and New Orleans, in Miami and in Texas.  They are needed to supplement the local caregivers, to take up the overload.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s not a job anyone would want, but it\u2019s one that needs to be done.  And the need for it will occur over and over as the \u201cwaves\u201d sweep over our nation.  It\u2019s a desperate measure, but it\u2019s a desperate time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some day it will be track meet weather again.  And some day we\u2019ll get to run.  But right now, we ALL have to be together to fight this fight, not as a city or a state, but as a nation of one.  Send in the strike force.  Make this a national war against pandemic.  Mr. President, take command.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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