I gots the Covid.

[Crghss]

Christmas eve was my last night bedside caring for covid patients. Two years of constant tragedy is enough for me.

I sure hope something changes soon.

So you are done? Sorry to hear it. Can’t blame you. I have six family members in medical field. Most are fairly young and switching fields would be tough. But most wish they could do something else.

Not only have they been dealing with all the death & despair for close to 2 years. Now they tell me people with COVID are coming to the hospital ER and telling the doctor how and what treatments they want.

My niece is a nurse. Talking about a patient shes like, ok, they decided to not get the vaccine. Then caught COVID. Now they are at the hospital for treatment because they're so sick. The Doctor tells them the course of treatment. But no, they’re going to try and decide what treatments they get. Won’t listen to the doc.

Shes like, What? Since when do patients decide the treatment. Don’t they realize their dumb decisions got them in the hospital to begin with? Now they want to make more dumb decisions?

No thanks, I could never do that job.

Good luck and thanks for the good work.

 

[cod007]

As I have always understood it, Doctors are just ‘practicing’ medicine. Since they have proven that they can’t keep patients from this illness, folks have decided that they can’t do any worse than the Docs. They may as well take control. After all, it’s THEIR life at stake.

 

[Crghss]

folks have decided that they can’t do any worse than the Docs

If they decided to not get the vaccine then they’ve proven they can do worse then the Doc’s.

Just amazes me how many people needlessly died this year. Not just sacrificing they lives for nothing but putting their families through so much pain and suffering. And for what? Why? Crazy….

 

[cod007]

Their body, their choice. Of course you would concur. Unless you were a lefty whose principles only hold true when ‘they’ want them to.

 

[4rcgoat]

Is COVID worse at the border because of illegal immigration? That is topical. That illegal immigration is a problem is not.

How can you possibly compile any real world data on who has covid and where when thousands of people are pouring in undocumented? No one knows where they are going,what they are doing, or who they might infect on their way through the country. These people are not playing by the rules, but WE, the people OF the U.S. get shamed if we don't. The only way to stop a sinking ship is to first plug the hole thats letting in water,until you do that,this ship is eventually going down.

 

[Fatcamp]

So you are done? Sorry to hear it. Can’t blame you. I have six family members in medical field. Most are fairly young and switching fields would be tough. But most wish they could do something else.

Not only have they been dealing with all the death & despair for close to 2 years. Now they tell me people with COVID are coming to the hospital ER and telling the doctor how and what treatments they want.

My niece is a nurse. Talking about a patient shes like, ok, they decided to not get the vaccine. Then caught COVID. Now they are at the hospital for treatment because they're so sick. The Doctor tells them the course of treatment. But no, they’re going to try and decide what treatments they get. Won’t listen to the doc.

Shes like, What? Since when do patients decide the treatment. Don’t they realize their dumb decisions got them in the hospital to begin with? Now they want to make more dumb decisions?

No thanks, I could never do that job.

Good luck and thanks for the good work.

All true. Crazy situation.

I am moving to the surgical setting. Won't leave nursing.

 

[CJ19]

Albert Bourla of Pfizer is the CNN Business CEO of the Year

The Covid-19 pandemic is far from over. But life in many ways has returned to something resembling normal for many. That's in large part because there are now multiple coronavirus vaccines, including one from Pfizer.

www.cnn.com

 

[Okhotnik]

......Says MattB virtually all by his lonesome self!

In Matt's world allowing millions of unvaxxed illegal aliens is a good thing. And as a hard working tax paying American white male you're labeled an evil murdering sociopath for not getting the vax.

Its pretty simple to understand

 

[KurtR]

Only have to quarantine for 5 days now.

 

[Tbonespop]

You may want to expand your universe of news sources because I read articles on the fentanyl issue on a weekly basis.

You may want to expand your universe of news sources because I read articles on the fentanyl issue on a weekly basis.

Got plenty of news sources - more than I should have. You in the medical community hand that stuff out like candy half the time. I had surgery last March and specifically said no opiod meds after surgery. I get home and what's in the bag, Oxy. Promptly Flushed that crap down the toilet.

 

[Vandy321]

Got plenty of news sources - more than I should have. You in the medical community hand that stuff out like candy half the time. I had surgery last March and specifically said no opiod meds after surgery. I get home and what's in the bag, Oxy. Promptly Flushed that crap down the toilet.

Just more evidence that the healthcare industry puts profits first, our health is secondary. Treating opiod addiction is a multi-billion dollar a year venture alone.

 

[Bryant]

Get well soon

 

[inyago]

There has been a number of people on this post claiming that the hospitals are full of the unvacced..
The other day on dr campbell a poster on u/tube had some facts from the hss..
Right: there is 748,609 hosp beds in usa. 71.85% are in use at time of report..Of that 9.63% occupied by covid19
Around 71,044 total.. That's from 5940 hosp reporting..
Now you have 80,107 icu beds available at 6,069 hospitals.. 60,352 are in use with 16,065 occupied by covid19
This totals 21.28% occupancy by covid19 patients..
So how is it that some of you guys are claiming hosp are overflowing..
This report is from last week, so i think some are telling porkies round here..

 

[*zap*]

Be afraid.....get your jab & wear your muzzle....

 

[dtrkyman]

 

[*zap*]

^ What a shame......she has my prayers.

 

[5MilesBack]

The media and government can sense "the fear" waning in America, so they have to act quickly to try and bring the fear back. With all the talk of combining the flu and covid shots into one, looks like I'll be avoiding the flu shot the rest of my life as well.

MSN

 

[ddd-shooter]

The media and government can sense "the fear" waning in America, so they have to act quickly to try and bring the fear back. With all the talk of combining the flu and covid shots into one, looks like I'll be avoiding the flu shot the rest of my life as well.

MSN

"could be"
Thats a great drinking game. Take a shot when media says "maybe" "could be" or any speculative to push doom and gloom....

 

[ddd-shooter]

C.S Lewis wrote this in 1948, in response to fears of living with the atomic bomb. Replace that with virus, I think its a great summation:

In one way we think a great deal too much of the atomic bomb. ‘How are we to live in an atomic age?’ I am tempted to reply: ‘Why, as you would have lived in the sixteenth century when the plague visited London almost every year, or as you would have lived in a Viking age when raiders from Scandinavia might land and cut your throat at night; or indeed, as you are already living in an age of cancer, an age of syphilis, an age of paralysis, an age of air raids, an age of railway accidents, an age of motor accidents.

In other words, do not let us begin by exaggerating the novelty of our situation. Believe me, dear sir or madam, you and all whom you love were already sentenced to death before the atomic bomb was invented… It is perfectly ridiculous to go about whimpering and drawing long faces because the scientists have added one more chance of painful and premature death to a world which already bristled with such chances and in which death itself was not a chance at all, but a certainty.

If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things—praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts—not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds.

What the atomic bomb has really done is to remind us forcibly of the sort of world we are living in and which, during the prosperous period before, we were beginning to forget. And this reminder is, so far as it goes, a good thing. We have been waked from a pretty dream, and now we can begin to talk about realities.

It is our business to live by our own law not by fears: to follow, in private or in public life, the law of love and temperance even when they seem to be suicidal, and not the law of competition and grab, even when they seem to be necessary to our own survival. For it is part of our spiritual law never to put survival first: not even the survival of our species. We must resolutely train ourselves to feel that the survival of Man on this Earth, much more of our own nation or culture or class, is not worth having unless it can be had by honorable and merciful means.

Nothing is more likely to destroy a species or a nation than a determination to survive at all costs. Those who care for something else more than civilization are the only people by whom civilization is at all likely to be preserved. Those who want Heaven most have served Earth best. Those who love man less than God do most for man.

 

[4rcgoat]

C.S Lewis wrote this in 1948, in response to fears of living with the atomic bomb. Replace that with virus, I think its a great summation:

In one way we think a great deal too much of the atomic bomb. ‘How are we to live in an atomic age?’ I am tempted to reply: ‘Why, as you would have lived in the sixteenth century when the plague visited London almost every year, or as you would have lived in a Viking age when raiders from Scandinavia might land and cut your throat at night; or indeed, as you are already living in an age of cancer, an age of syphilis, an age of paralysis, an age of air raids, an age of railway accidents, an age of motor accidents.

In other words, do not let us begin by exaggerating the novelty of our situation. Believe me, dear sir or madam, you and all whom you love were already sentenced to death before the atomic bomb was invented… It is perfectly ridiculous to go about whimpering and drawing long faces because the scientists have added one more chance of painful and premature death to a world which already bristled with such chances and in which death itself was not a chance at all, but a certainty.

If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things—praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts—not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds.

What the atomic bomb has really done is to remind us forcibly of the sort of world we are living in and which, during the prosperous period before, we were beginning to forget. And this reminder is, so far as it goes, a good thing. We have been waked from a pretty dream, and now we can begin to talk about realities.

It is our business to live by our own law not by fears: to follow, in private or in public life, the law of love and temperance even when they seem to be suicidal, and not the law of competition and grab, even when they seem to be necessary to our own survival. For it is part of our spiritual law never to put survival first: not even the survival of our species. We must resolutely train ourselves to feel that the survival of Man on this Earth, much more of our own nation or culture or class, is not worth having unless it can be had by honorable and merciful means.

Nothing is more likely to destroy a species or a nation than a determination to survive at all costs. Those who care for something else more than civilization are the only people by whom civilization is at all likely to be preserved. Those who want Heaven most have served Earth best. Those who love man less than God do most for man.

Great read thanks. I believe we should be making a nation of stronger citizens, rather than making a safer world.