The Most Heroic Thing We Can Do Is Stay Out of the Way

Social isolation often feels like the opposite of heroism. But now is the time to swallow our pride.

Mark Shrime, MD, PhD
GEN
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4 min readMar 31, 2020

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NNothing about quarantine feels heroic. Nothing about sitting in an empty apartment, checking the Johns Hopkins Covid-19 tracker every 10 minutes, feels like saving the world.

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Mark Shrime, MD, PhD
GEN
Writer for

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