There are many like me. I'd wager in the tens of thousands willing and able. If we'd started in March, you'd have had us trained by now.
If you start reservist wildfire training me now, I'll be ready by next season.
Certification fetishism is ruining America's agility. Unsurprising. All societies switch from exploration to exploitation to preservation at some point until they are replaced by a new disruptor. It happened to Britain. It's happening to America.
In March, I was trying to convince my family that COVID19 even existed.
We did start in March. Discussing that COVID19 is real, that masks help, and that pooling health care resources was needed for the imminent future. Fortunately, my local area is doing good on stockpiling PPE, expanding hospital beds / resources and more.
The issue is that a good chunk of America decided that COVID19 was a fake virus that only afflicted China, no wait, only affected Europe... no wait... only affected liberal cities. There was no way for it to spread around the country.
Sad fact: its too late to change the nursing situation now. Your state is either ready for this, or it isn't. Too late to change things. You had since January to prepare (when China announced to the world the COVID19 issue), maybe March (when New York City announced to the country that COVID19 arrived on our shores).
What we can do is start the propaganda campaigns needed to get mass vaccinations ready.
We can still start. It's okay. Having a reservist force of emergency personnel isn't going to suck.
And if everyone had a secondary job they could get refreshed on, we'd reduce the disruptive shocks to our society that things like coal becoming worthless do.
Do you honestly think people aren't 'take this seriously'? People are scared out of their minds, and a lot of the fear has gone way too far. We are well past the point of mass hysteria.
You know what is? An entire society taking this thing seriously.