I'm well aware. Unfortunately, you just have to let those people think what they will. It's not worth the effort to try and change their minds. Especially when they do have some reason to feel the way they do.
He'll be all right. Our world just loves to jerk us around, and this place decided to go along with that.
He's a registered nurse and worked as an EMT for a year, and he's been doing emergency work the last few years to underserved populations. I'll send him that way once he recovers from our world being cruel.