Dr Fine, Dr Howard, Dr Fine

Since we try for the family audience (Addams, Lucchese, Kardashian) I'll try to keep this on the PG, but let's say that there are people who like to spice up their love lives by dressing in costumes. The call it Cosplay, from the days when the Dad would don a Coogi sweater and eat a Pudding Pop, but now, all sort of people wear all sorts of get-ups in the game of love.

And some of them like to dress up as doctors and nurses.

Yeah, that's not weird.

But there's a happy payoff over in the United Kingdom, where there is an entire company devoted to selling medical garb to those who like to strap on the scrubs. They call that company MedFetUK, and they recently got a call from the National Health Services, looking for scrubs, surgical masks and so on so as to equip REAL doctors and nurses in the fight against coronavirus.

“Today we donated our entire stock of disposable scrubs to an NHS hospital. It was just a few sets, because we don’t carry large stocks, but they were desperate, so we sent them free of charge. We don’t usually do politics on Twitter, but here’s a short thread,” said a tweet from the "let's play doctor" group.

Mind you, they went on tweeting, placing the blame for the government's lack of supplies as the coronavirus swept the Isles squarely on...the government.  They said the NHS is "barely able to cope under normal circumstances, much less when faced with the onslaught of a global pandemic. It did not, and should not, have to be this way."

As of this writing, some 20,000 British people - up to and including their Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, have tested positive for coronavirus. 1,228 souls have been lost to the present plague in Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

MedFetUK also pointed out that British health officials claimed to have all the supplies they need to face the pandemic, but by reaching out to a kinky costume purveyor, they sort of showed that that was not the case at all.

In Great Britain, as in the US and all over the world, there are going to be years and years of what's called "analysis" of the preparedness for this pandemic, and we all know that it's one thing to be prepared for the normal catastrophe, but when something like this sweeps across the world, a tsunami of suffering and death, there's really no way to have enough stocked up.

The real test is how we process the tasks ahead. We can cooperate, asking off-base sites like this for help (which, in this case, was swiftly given) or we can blame our predecessors, refuse to take responsibility, and act in a jejune manner.

I like the way they do things in Great Britain. And the next time I go in for surgery (the doc said he might need to remove my thesaurus), I am going to ask, "Where'dja get those scrubs?"