Okay that was a really bad idea, maybe I’m losing my hard hearted-ness with age but there is some :agony-deep: shit on there holy fuck
Walking into work today I saw “the cold truck”. The entire walkway smelled like dead bodies.
:agony-limitless:
Please let there be a merciful God who will punish the assholes who let it get this bad in the RICHEST COUNTRY ON EARTH
https://www.reddit.com/r/nursing/comments/pk3v5e/written_after_a_particularly_hard_day/
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I was watching this live stream of storm chasers during Ida, they were pretty rad dudes and saved quite a few people during some of the flash flooding. Towards the end they were parked near a hospital catching their breath and this nurse came out, didn’t realize anyone was there, and just started wailing. Just absolutely raw at her absolute limit wailing, before going back inside to presumably continue working.
Was absolutely surreal and I’m sure so many of them are going through that and worse right now. It cannot keep up.
2 months before the unvaxxed get a lower priority of care, itll have to happen sooner or later
I’m honestly super torn on this. On the one hand it’s dehumanizing and gross, and obviously we should be giving everyone the best medical care we can, regardless of their choices. But on the other hand, would it not be reasonable to move the unvaxxed covid patients down the list when there isn’t enough room? You shouldn’t die of a heart attack because an antivaxxer is taking up the last hospital bed. Idk. I hate the whole situation and I don’t like thinking about it, but if we’ve decided we’re just going to let covid burn and collapse our medical system, I’d rather priority go to the ones that aren’t actively making everything worse? Idk. Gross.
We already triage donor organs based on who is most likely to live a healthy life and make the most use of them. The ethics of that are debatable, but I don’t see much of a difference between ICU beds and organs when we’re dealing with a limited supply.
Of course, the lack of beds could have been prevented while the lack of donor organs is a trickier problem. The people responsible for stripping our hospitals of any excess capacity get the wall.
Yeah exactly. We don’t give liver transplants to active alcoholics, same thing goes for oxygen to antivaxxers when you’re down to triaging.
But also yes, and while I know it will never happen because we live in hell, we need some sort of tribunal to punish the people responsible for this disaster. Personally I’m of the opinion that every US governor and most of the house and senate are guilty of mass murder and deserve either life in prison or execution for their crimes against humanity. And I think such a tribunal should also look further back, and figure out who was responsible for making us so poorly prepared for this in the first place.
Honestly there’s a dehumanization campaign against them rn. They emphasize the chuds, but there’s tons of people who’re avoiding it because they think it costs money or because of the history of the US experimenting on their communities.
I doubt that. The vaccine has been available for so long and made so easy to get and learn about. I really doubt many people are holding out because they think it cost money.
There have definitely been problems with distribution among racist and classist lines. And many people in working poverty cant afford the two days off to get vaccinated
Recently where I live a vaccinated person in a nearby town had a breakthrough infection and died because the hospital had too many unvaxxed covid patients to deal with and they couldn’t treat them in time. At the same time anti-mask rallies are being held. It needs to happen sooner rather than later. It’s probably already happening unofficially in the worst hit areas of the country.
America has collapsed, but everyone is just slow to realize it
I’ve said for years that our state of being in today’s society is analogous to the ghosts in the Sixth Sense. America/Capitalism collapsed in 2008. Boom. Gunshot. Dead. But the trauma of that event was too much to process all at once…and so we’ve done the only thing we can: just kept going about our routines and pretending like nothing happened. That’s why existence feels hallow and like nothing changes while also getting slightly worse all the time…and why it will just continue to keep going until we finally admit to ourselves that our old existence is done and that we need to move on.
america is a fucking disgrace
Spoilers: It’s more profitable to run a healthcare system on the brink of collapse than it is to run it with excess capacity.
