Dr. Jason Barnes, who works in the emergency room at
Christus Spohn hospital in Corpus Christi, Texas, is treating patients by day
and sleeping in his tree-house
by night. He told KRIS-TV he is living in the tree-house during his off hours
because he has treated people who have tested positive for the coronavirus and
doesn’t want to put his family at risk. After looking at various ways to quarantine
himself, he opted to equip his tree-house with a bed, air conditioning and a “bathroom”
of sorts, so that he could be near his family.
Dr.
Barnes told the television station that his family time consists of watching
his wife and kids play in their backyard from the porch of his tree-house. His
wife Jenna said, “we miss him terribly, being in the house, being able to hug
him and be with him daily.”
While
the doctor is making a worthwhile and laudable sacrifice, it is one more
indication of the bizarre times in which we live. It often seems the further we
travel down the road of technological progress, the more we devolve in other
ways.
We are climbing back up into the
trees now. How much longer until we slip back down into the primordial soup and
simply disappear?
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