https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/military-metaphors-distort-the-reality-of-covid-19/ > In recent weeks, a flurry of headlines about healthcare workers treating people with COVID-19 have utilized a wide array of military metaphors: Doctors are fighting on the frontlines without sufficient ammunition. They are battling the enemy. They are at war. > But we are not at war. And we certainly have not enlisted. We are doctors. What we are doing is working extraordinarily hard to keep our patients alive.