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How about an anecdote from reality this month from a real person at the frontline, not a chickenhawk?
"All the sick and dieing I've seen are unvaxxed. I know there are sick vaxxed people out there, I just haven't seen them. Not many nurses have.
Taking care of a few critically sick COVID the other day boss comes to me and says "ED is boarding [LOTS] and more coming. We gonna divide your [ x ] and you go to med-surge floor and take 6." It was so bad high level hospital admins were transporting patients from ED to floors. Elevator in the basement opened and the Big Big Boss and the Big Boss were rolling out a dead COVID. Nurses that have been through the first wave with PTSD or just sick of the .... calling in. ED should have had 10 nurses. Had 4 that day.
So today would be better, right? We have more and more COVID and I'm taking care of a very sick person in for other stuff that causes respiratory distress and who is vaccinated. COVID- Condition worsens and needs a machine called a BIPAP. This machine is basically the last step before intubation. Doctor in the room and respiratory therapist shows up to say the hospital is out of BIPAPS. That's right, the unvaxxed are fixing to kill the vaxxed who have the bad luck to need oxygen stuff right now.
I thought Jan '20 to Dec were the Dark Days. But even then we were never out of BIPAP. Vents yes.
There are going to be people dieing in the hallways of my hospital on regular non-rebreathers within 10 days, if not 7."
Our world means the risk of getting broken in a bike crash is always there, lets hope the local isn't like this when we get wheeled in.
"All the sick and dieing I've seen are unvaxxed. I know there are sick vaxxed people out there, I just haven't seen them. Not many nurses have.
Taking care of a few critically sick COVID the other day boss comes to me and says "ED is boarding [LOTS] and more coming. We gonna divide your [ x ] and you go to med-surge floor and take 6." It was so bad high level hospital admins were transporting patients from ED to floors. Elevator in the basement opened and the Big Big Boss and the Big Boss were rolling out a dead COVID. Nurses that have been through the first wave with PTSD or just sick of the .... calling in. ED should have had 10 nurses. Had 4 that day.
So today would be better, right? We have more and more COVID and I'm taking care of a very sick person in for other stuff that causes respiratory distress and who is vaccinated. COVID- Condition worsens and needs a machine called a BIPAP. This machine is basically the last step before intubation. Doctor in the room and respiratory therapist shows up to say the hospital is out of BIPAPS. That's right, the unvaxxed are fixing to kill the vaxxed who have the bad luck to need oxygen stuff right now.
I thought Jan '20 to Dec were the Dark Days. But even then we were never out of BIPAP. Vents yes.
There are going to be people dieing in the hallways of my hospital on regular non-rebreathers within 10 days, if not 7."
Our world means the risk of getting broken in a bike crash is always there, lets hope the local isn't like this when we get wheeled in.