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More than five years have passed since Covid-19 began spreading through the United States, the virus killed more than one million Americans and remodeled our total society. Our new series will bring reflections from people, in their own words, who have lived and worked through pandemic. We started with Dr. Colleen Bridger, who supervised the reaction in public aptitude in San Antonio for almost two years the pandemic.
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Amna Nawaz:
More than five years have passed since Covid-19 has to spread throughout the United States, the virus killed more than one million Americans and remodeled our total society.
Tonight, we are starting a new series with other people reflexes in their own words that have lived and worked through the pandemic.
Colleen Bridger, former deputy director of the city, San Antonio, Texas:
I am Dr. Colleen Bridger. I am the former deputy director of the city of the city of San Antonio who supervised the public aptitude of the pandemic.
None of us expected the pandemic to last as much as she. And then we don’t treat it as a marathon. We treat it as a board. And then we continue to run after board after board and never rest. There was no way to balance the paintings and life of the pandemic if it were a public health response device.
You were just a public fitness worker. And then I have two young adults. My first child was born pandemic, a husband who is now 35 years old. All of them have not earned my attention. My marriage had problems. My appointment with my young people had problems accordingly. And I ended up taking flight because, in a way, I said I was going to be a representative because it was an intelligent cover.
I wasn’t, I didn’t retire. It was happening, but I needed a break. I just needed not to do that more. But it took me more time to succeed on the pandemic of what I thought. And the concept of starting again puts a well in my stomach.
Looking back five years later, I have the impression that public fitness did a job, given everything we are dealing with, at the same time at the local, state and national level. However, it was incredibly difficult to be the user who was one of the many public faces when it comes to communicating about the pandemic, communicating about COVID-19.
And probably 3 years before avoiding waking up at 3:00 am in this type of sweat without blood, wondering what I had forgotten or damaged or did not think. I won death threats. I have tons of vocal messages and many hidden messages.
When other people are afraid, their brains paint differently. You want to become before and center. At least retrospectively, I perceive this. However, I would say that now what I see is, it becomes a defect for other people. And it scares me for the next pandemic, because, as it increases, I don’t know. If I have a risk of death today about something, not only to say, Oh, it is just someone who is afraid and will not really happen.
There is a solution of trust in public aptitude that has actually received its critical mass, pandemic, and I see that worsens. And I think we see that it is played around the measles epidemic we have at this time.
If there is another pandemic, the local Public Fitness personnel will have to come in combination to perceive what they know and how the data of a position of respect for the autonomy and freedom of other people. But I think we have to begin to perceive whom messengers have a good reputation to talk to the scientifically accurate data that other people want to do what they produce the most for their circle of relatives to protect themselves.
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