11.18.2020

Worthy of note

Florida Army reservist is 10th service member to die of the coronavirus

Five other Army reservists have also died from the coronavirus this year, as well as two Army National Guard members. An active-duty sailor assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt also died from the virus. Chief Petty Officer Charles Robert Thacker Jr., 41, died April 13 at a naval hospital on Guam.

"Service member" here refers to serving Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, and now Space Force personnel, as well as Army Reserve and National Guard members. That's a whole lot of people. Ten have died.

Granted, these folks are, overall, younger than the general population (although not all of them are 20 anymore, or even 30). And possibly, overall, somewhat more fit. But they are also, as a group, trained to "go by the book." (You can say "follow orders," if you like. Or, "work together.")

Pretty clearly, it seems to me, an organized approach to this pandemic works.

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