The thing you people don’t get is when covid first happened, NO ONE knew what was going on. They HAD to enforce zero visitor policy to protect patients. If you don’t get it then you’re a caveman. As we learned more about the virus, they started allowing “mercy” visits, and allowing 1 family member to visit hospice patients, or someone actively dying. The visitor policy loosened as we learned more about the virus.
Unfortunately, many people were tragically not allowed to visit loved ones during these times, and that’s horrible. You can’t blame people, who in good faith, we’re doing what they had to do to balance their moral/ethical, and professional obligation to protect their patients and staff.
I personally thought the virus was a load of shit about 2-3 weeks into the “pandemic,” but i can’t force the rest of the country to trust my intuitive judgement. I don’t know what you expect people on the front lines to do. It’s easy to look back and be pissed off, but back then, no one knew how serious the virus was. There was a ton of fear and uncertainty.... and and economy was in a free fall. So for me to be a hero in your eyes, i should have completely ignored my hospitals visitation policy, instantly lose my job, and i would have accomplished nothing in the grand scheme of things.
Don't blame front line staff. Blame our administrators. I worked in the ER when covid started. Me and my other night shift co-workers let visiotrs in the ER if their loved one was dying. If you wanted to get into the inpatient area's we couldn't let you up there because you'd just get kicked out anyway when you get up stairs. Admins were watching us like hawks.
Can someone make a website that lists retailors who don't enforce masks?
Male nurse here.
A few years ago the nurses in my unit tried to give me some fucked up assignment where they gave me 1 patient on the total opposite side of the unit. The reason was he was "sexually inappropriate toward women."
This patient was in restraints and had a 1:1 sitter with him 24/7. They thought that because I was a "man," he should go with me. I normally wouldn't have really cared, other than the fact that in a 24 hour period, I was the ONLY male nurse on that unit. Completely fed up with the fact that for 80% of the time a female would be taking care of this patient (and they'd be taking turns) and I would be taking care of him 100% of the time I would be there, I asked the charge nurse "What do you guys do with this patient when I'm not here?" She replied "We just deal with it", so I said "so why not just "deal with it" when I am here?"
They lost their shit, complaining that I didn't want to be a team player, "we're women and don't have to be subjected to the "verbal sexual abuse" (From an obviously mentally impaired patient).
I basically just told them that I think they're all very capable, strong, professional women who have the ability to ask for help when they need it, and do not have to single me out and give me the "aggressive, or verbally abusive patients" whenever I come to work. Their behavior abruptly stopped.
I'm a registered nurse in a hospital. We abruptly stopped testing for flu 2 weeks after covid started.
Shut up and take my money!
“The Act of 1871”
This looks pre-recorded
"I will fight for you with every breath in my body and I will never, ever let you down." Please, Mr. President.
Every year, the flu shot is more or less effective than others. I have always gotten the flu shot without objection because I have always trusted the medical field because most of the medical professionals I've encountered have been ethical, and I feel like the medical community as a whole is very ethical. This year really made me think twice about that. I declined the covid vaccine that my hospital is giving out. I just tell people that I don't like the politics and the media blowing it out of proportion, and I would like more time to digest what's going on. Watching the medical community go bananas over covid just made me take a step back for right now.
I can't really give a valuable answer regarding whether the flu shot is necessary anymore. I trusted it when I had no reason to distrust the medical community. I'd definitely talk to a doctor that you have a good relationship with, maybe even a pediatric doctor for your little one. I have a feeling that they're going to eventually mix the covid vaccine with the flu shot and make it mandatory.
I cancelled. I'm going to trash my alexa's too. Now I have to physically turn on my lights :(
This litigation should in theory prompt the removal of all dominion machines and force us to use a more reliable method of voting. Let’s hope that by the mid terms, we have have something reliable because we all know what a landslide for republicans it will be.
I thought newsmax isn’t to be trusted.
They’re going to use newsmax and fox to further divide republicans.
Maybe he’s referring to the antifa kids posing as us?
I think the overall net result of their tweet is positive.
- No one worth their salt changed their political view based on that tweet.
- It pushed the issue of election integrity further into the public eye. Remember MSM is Trying to make the public forget that there ever was an issue of integrity in our election and manufacture Biden acceptance. M
Funny thing is, a lot of hospitals are over burdened EVERY year during the cold season. My hospital for the last 5 years had been holding 5-30 patients in the ER about 3-5 days per week. When covid hit, our census dropped dramatically. Did not hold in the ED at all. What happened was the hospital changed nursing ratios and gave covid nurses less patients... so we were basically on a shortage of staff because they decided to give all the covid nurses 3 patient assignments. The hospitals also stopped routine surgeries.
Can confirm. I was a charge nurse in my ED when covid hit. It was the quietest few months we ever had. It was amazing. The regulars stopped coming in, the homeless stopped coming in to sleep, 302’s stopped clogging up our beds/techs. It was pure bliss. It did get really busy there for a month, but then Recently people started getting spooked again.
Something very similar happened to me in 2015. I don’t think I said “I love you” to my father ever growing up. Maybe hugged him twice. When I found his dead body. I did cpr until medics arrived. When we determined he wasn’t going to make it and everyone left the room, I whispered into his ear “I love you dad” and kissed him on the forehead.
Exactly. When I was trying to explain this to other nurses I said “firefighters don’t get hazard pay for fighting fires because that’s what they are trained to do”. Then they would say “yeah but we weren’t trained to deal with some unknown virus” and I’d say “you have PPE that you were trained to use” then they’d move the goal post again... “well. We didn’t have enough PPE”. They’re grasping at straws.
There is also the issue of nurses taking what I call “covid vacations”. When nurses on units who don’t regularly take care of covid patients find out one of their patients has covid, they try to “self quarantine” even though they are asymptomatic. They think that because they were wearing a surgical mask instead of an N95 that they were exposed. I wear a surgical mask with every patient unless they had some aerosalizing procedure (bipap, intubation, nebulizers) and I haven’t had any symptoms. These people need to start acting like professionals.
The real hero’s are the people who stuck around who don’t have our level of knowledge... (housekeeping, maintenance, radiology, food services etc). Or perhaps those nurses who didn’t take covid vacations or demand hazard pay maybe we can throw them a hero trophy for being a fucking normal person.
Nurse here. I’ve never been comfortable being called a hero. Whenever I hear nurses bitching that they’re not getting hazard pay, or that they’re special because they take care of covid patients. I remind them that taking care of sick patients and using PPE is part of their fucking job and training. I also remind them that while they’re sitting here bitching about not getting hazard pay or student loan forgiveness, there are Americans out there losing their businesses, jobs/income, health benefits. Nurses are some of the most entitled people I’ve ever worked with in my life.
I’m a nurse and this is just one of the many reasons I’m not taking the vaccine. Ironically, I volunteered to help administer it at my hospital. It’s going to be fun answering the “so did YOU get the vaccine” question that I will inevitably be asked 500 times.
I live in PA and my polling place was handing literally everyone sharpies. I wonder if the sharpies trigger an "error" and send them for adjudication where they mark them for Biden.
RN here.
Like you, I wear my mask to keep my job. I also wear it when I go to the store because... "private institution." Any other time I don't wear one. It amazes me how different nurses on different floors act. I personally wear surgical masks with every covid patient interaction except if they're intubated without viral filter, bipap, or nebulizers (then I use N95). The other day one of the patients on the "non-covid" unit tested positive on the third test on like day 4 of their admission, and half the unit called out the next day because they all thought they had covid even though asymptomatic. If half of healthcare workers are scared shitless of it, imagine how laypersons feel. People don't want to compare it to influenza, but I bet you before the flu vaccine was made, there was probably similar mortality rate.
My god. I came back here after watching the clips and read these comments, forgetting I wasn't on reddit anymore. Confused the fuck out of me.