Blue Scrubs Lives Matter

I keep comparing the behavior of cops to health care workers. And the cops keep looking like babies. Spoiled babies. Don’t go on about how they risk their lives every day. Thirty police officers have died so far in 2020 compared to over 300 health care workers from covid-19. 60,000 have contracted the disease to date whereas in all of 2019, 13,700 police officers were injured. By comparison, policing is safe.

Before you tell me I’m comparing apples to oranges, stop. These numbers are about the risk of the job. Even though being a police officer is not the most dangerous job out there, boosters point out that every day the men and women who put on a uniform do so with the stress of knowing the danger they face. Well that goes double for health workers these days, because their attacker is unseen and every decision they make all day long has to consider the risk of this one killing them. On top of that, many don’t get to decompress with their families because they don’t want to take the virus home.

Then there’s the investment. Doctors and nurses must study for years. In LA, a reserve cop gets about half the hours of training required of a massage therapist. Even the most stringent police training doesn’t come close to what is required to get an RN let alone an MD.

It’s almost as if more armor and manly weapons of war the cops get, the weaker they…