It’s only a TV show, but after watching the first episode in which the ER team and other hospital staff on The Pitt dealt with a mass shooting, I was moved to opine on the depravity of anyone who decides a viable option for expressing anger or making a name for themselves is by unleashing high-powered weaponry on unsuspecting victims and wreaking absolute carnage.
It was the part most of us never see—the victims brought in by ambulance and police cruiser and family vehicles; some trampled in the rush for cover, others hit by cars, but most with varying degrees of gunshot wound ranging from grazing to fatal shots that reduced a human body to a target for projectiles that rip through human flesh and bone with unimaginable force and horrific result.
Lives instantaneously ended or permanently changed; the purposeful chaos of triage and an urban ER that turns into a MASH unit, the focused attention and expertise of a hospital staff that has to compartmentalize their revulsion and anger so they can function and tend to the massive needs at hand.
It’s only a TV show, but one surely must sense that what unfolded on the screen was not excessively dramatized, not wildly different from real life. In fact, as bad as we might imagine these incidents to be, the reality has to be much worse.
But, well, thoughts and prayers, right?
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