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.