Most of us would rely on experts if diagnosed with cancer. When I was diagnosed with breast cancer, what any president, prime minister or senator had to say about managing the disease didn’t matter. I sought the opinions of the very best oncology experts.
Sometimes a stark metaphor is what persuasion requires. Think of it this way: If you don’t engage in social distancing and stay at home other than for absolute necessities, you are exposing yourself to a terminal disease. You may not die, but you may. And you’ll do so alone, painfully – without your family.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, U.S. top expert on the coronavirus pandemic, wants all of us to stay at home. Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, Director, Division of Infectious Diseases & Professor of Medicine at the University of Alabama Birmingham and Dr. Rochelle Walensky, Infectious Diseases Chief, Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston agree. As do their colleagues with equivalent expertise across the world.
What more do we need? Staying at home saves lives. It can save yours and that of people you love. You’ll save people on the front lines. Ten states in the U.S. are holding out on stay-at-home orders and Florida is allowing religious gatherings.
Listen to the best medical experts. They’re the qualified leaders of this crisis. Stay home.
(If you’re here from Linkedin and want to read “Leadership Styles for the Five Stages of Radical Change” by Kathleen Reardon, Alan Rowe and Kevin Reardon in Acquisition Review Quarterly, you can find it here. Basically, as the article above states, style and type of leadership should alter with the demands before us. Who we follow should depend on what they bring to the type of change required. Never is this more important than in a crisis.)
