Almost a month into the internship experience, it's amazing how fast the time goes. I've been working on migrating/creating content on the company blog and until just now, I felt like it would never end. I just migrated/reposted the last article. I've recreated everything that has ever been posted to all of their social media and written entries for every single mention in the media. A grand total of 60 published postings, with a few unpublished as I can't track down links to the articles online and feel wrong copying and pasting articles. Surprisingly, The Detroit News makes it hard to link to older articles.
So, after spending the majority of my day posting blog entries and doing my best to create unique and engaging blurbs about very similar articles, the last thing I really want to be doing is blogging. I think I decided to write tonight because it gives me the opportunity to write something that isn't about infant mortality.
...but then the statistics run through my head, and I can't stop thinking about the numbers.
I read earlier today that in developed nations 1 in 10 babies with hypothermia die, while in developing nations that 9 in 10 babies with hypothermia die. Those numbers made me really stop and think. Then I ran across an article about how in the early 1900's, Dr. Martin Couney, the dude who invented the infant incubator had a preemie sideshow on Coney Island. Nurses would show off preemie babies, some as small as two pounds, and people became aware that there was a need, and hospitals started ordering incubators for premature infants. Sometimes, it takes something extreme to shock society into recognizing a problem. If it took a preemie baby sideshow to get people to recognize that incubators could save lives in the 18th century, will it take the equivalent of an internet sideshow graphically showing infant mortality to realize a solution today?
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