For Mexico's doctors, an especially mournful Day of the Dead

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Diminutive figures skeletons in face masks and medical caps are all too common on Mexico's Day of the Dead altars this year. Over 1,700 Mexican health workers are known to have died of COVID-19. They are being honored with three days of national mourning.

A portrait of Dr. Jose Luis Linares who died from symptoms related to COVID-19, placed on a Day of the Dead altar made by his wife Rosario Martinez at their home in Mexico City, Sunday, Nov. 1, 2020. He is one of more than 1,700 Mexican health workers officially known to have died of COVID-19 who are behind honored with three days of national mourning on these Days of the Dead.

Linares attended to patients at a private clinic in a poor neighborhood in the southern part of the city, usually charging about 30 pesos a consultation. Because he didn’t work at an official COVID-19 center, his family doesn’t qualify for the assistance the government gives to medical personnel stricken by the disease, his widow said“I told him, ‘Luis, don’t go to work.’ But he told me, ‘Then who is going to see those poor people,’” said his widow, Dr. María del Rosario Martínez.

They include people like nurse Jose Valencia, and Dr. Samuel Silva Montenegro of Mexico City, whose images rest atop altars in the homes of loved ones in Mexico City, At the peak of her own illness, she trekked from saturated hospital to overflowing clinic, looking for help.

 

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Commemorative memories posed in positive ways can be presented in many forms. Some translations just don't add up...like WashedInJesusBlood would SoundLike something washed their sins against god with his prophets blood (Christians believe that Jesus was the son of God)

😢RIP🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

In the United states health care workers are given n95 masks so they don't have to worry about the coronavirus

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How badly did you guys want to find a way to work in the day of the dead with COVID for a 'clever' morbid headline?

But here in America, our President claims doctors are just trying to make more money by claiming 'Coronavirus' when it's not🤦

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