i’ve learned more about the real on-the-ground ugliness of COVID from r/nursing than I’ve learned from any other source. Even the most unflinching media portrayals of what COVID does to the unvaccinated and the people who have to care for them leaves a lot out.
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for example last week i learned that a lot of nurses have had to deal with maggots in the intubated bodies of COVID patients, because anybody who has to be intubated for as long as many COVID patients do makes an attractive home for fly larvae, even when they’re still alive
Jfc that is horrible, god damn… obviously the pandemic isn’t over but ever since getting my shots I sort of forgot how horrific it was when this thing first broke out.
Fuck :doomer:
My SO is an ICU nurse and she had to transition to a part-time position to keep herself from having a mental breakdown. She mostly keeps the gory details to herself, but I’ve heard so many stories of Zoom call “last goodbyes” that I know how bad it is.
Basically with Delta, if you have to go into the ICU, you’re 99.5% going to die. And these are people in their 30s and 40s who are healthy with the exception of maybe one comorbidity. But they are ALL unvaccinated. They haven’t seen a vaccinated death yet.
Making me feel better about the potential for Vaccines to genuinely get this under control. Covid is never leaving, but if we can reasonably keep protection up with vaccines (scoping out problem variants ahead of time and preparing new vaccines for those, similar to the flu) then I’ll take that as a hopefully possible outcome.
takes ivermectin, an antiparasitic medicine
maggots move in anyways
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.
shoving rectal tubes in you because your ass is falling off because of COVID poop
How is this image not front and center of the vaccine campaign? I got vaccinated but if I were on the fence it’s visceral shit like this that would scare me into getting it.
I hear about a new awful symptom of COVID-19 every month that sounds so awful it makes the media coverage of it look like even more of a cover-up so they can get things “back to normal” so we can “live with COVID”.
Honestly the stuff that got me to vaccinate ASAP was what can happen to you in what’s noted as a ‘mild’ case where you don’t go to the hospital, otherwise I might have been more partial to hesitate with that “psh it only gets the olds, I’ll wait until it’s proven safe” BS.
Myocarditis, people who did marathons not having enough stamina to go up stairs, brain fog, the Texas Roadhouse ceo who committed suicide because he got tinnitus, long term effects we don’t even know (like people who got Russian flu in 1890s were more likely to die in the Spanish flu after WW1), etc.
There’s even a trumpy NHL player who was antivax, got covid, now has myocarditis after ‘recovery’ so they won’t medically clear him to play and his career might be over.
