When the only type of Class-consciousness that is allowed is that of a consumer, and Healthcare is explicitly referred to as a service you’re purchasing like any other, people will demand the same level of obedience and kow-towing as they do of a McDonalds worker. Couple that with the highly emotional events that puts most people into contact with nurses, and you get an atmosphere that is not going to be nice. Then you add the fact that nurses are seen as lesser than doctors, and that nurses have the most direct contact with patients, and shit gets really fucking bad.

I have some family in the States, and its fucking wild hearing some of their stories about working in a hospital. My family-member works in a hospital in Tennessee and she is genuinely struggling to get her children and husband to take Covid seriously at all. Since the husband is a Chud, he is completely beyond reach, even by his own wife.

how are people so fucking shitty to nurses who are actively trying to save their lives?

As someone who has been in the hospital for various things once or twice, you’re typically in a lot of pain and other forms of discomfort. I recently threw my back out, and was functionally bedridden for a few days. Shouting “please will someone bring me my piss bottle so I don’t wet the bed I am begging you!” at the top of my lungs was not my proudest moment or my most diplomatic.

That, plus the anxiety/terror associated with not understanding what is wrong, leads to people being very ill-tempered.

Can this country even be saved at this point

And the very same people are horrible to teachers and school board members.

The only time I’ve been mean to a nurse or healthcare worker is when I was out of my mind on morphine after a massive operation. Otherwise I’ve always treated healthcare workers with the utmost respect.

Do people really do otherwise? What the actual fuck is this world.

I got called the t-slur by a patiient a couple months before covid hit and I haven’t been able to get a job since because I told her to fuck off. People treat us like absolute shit and we just have to take it because “professionalism” is an industry-wide fetish by those in power. I had a terrible time before covid and from my understanding, literally every bad thing has just been turned up to 11 and I don’t know how people are actually still going. We’re overloading the healthcare system and also burning out fresh and veteran nurses so our healthcare system is going to be even worse going forward. Who wants to deal with the trauma and PTSD when you can just go find a job working at some soulless corp for the same pay and only having to deal with an asshole manager that you already had to deal with as a nurse.

These people want to die.

I would genuinely not bat an eyelash if people were dragged out of their homes to get vaccinated. I have a large family that’s full of chuds and it’s getting smaller. 22 of my relatives have died of covid. Around 50 have gotten it and have severe health complications now.

Force these people to take it. I don’t give a shit anymore. Shoot them in the neck with a vaccine dart. Make it illegal for them to work. I’m fucking desperate.

But more importantly they deserve better wages and working conditions

Residents too because they work like 80 hour weeks often making less than nurses while having to pay off hundreds of thousands in student loans.

I don’t think maggots are really parasites because from what i remember, they’re only interested in things that are already dead/rotten. Maggots can even be used for medical purposes because if you put them in an open wound, they will only eat dead tissue and perfectly clean the wound with impressive precision. It’s really gross but also super interesting imo.