By ZHEN HUANG
Los Alamos
Thanks Eli Ben-Naim for the Los Alamos pandemic updates for the week ending Nov. 1. It’s very useful for taking in-time mitigation means to fight the pandemic.
Apparently, we have seen a community pandemic spread following the initial Barranca Elementary outbreak that has died down, a second wave is now creeping in. This time, it mostly attacks another vulnerable group of people, those who were recently forced to early retirement, or in the struggle of “to retire, or not to retire”, because of the pandemic.
The involuntary forced retirement poses extremely harmful psychological impacts on the health and well-being of the individuals, in particular, on their immune system. In the United States, millions of people were forced to retire unexpectedly.
Los Alamos is no exception, in particular, with the extra pressure that LANL’s Vaccine Mandate policy has imposed on. To some extent, this is the aftermath of LANL’s Vaccine Mandate policy we are dealing with.
Los Alamos, ranked among the top-ten most favorite retirement communities, we need to work together to mitigate such unfortunate adverse impacts. At this time, let’s offer more support for our “Recently Retired.“
