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"Americans are optimistic about the upcoming Trump economy"

Decentraland oh lawdy

What the hellllllllllll

Especially coworkers, like why are you calling my cell and not messaging on Teams. Definitely not picking up. 🫠

That hits too close to home. Finally had to leave the clinical setting - loved the ICU and management was quite the experience (in a great way, outside of COVID), but the last three years of COVID took its toll. Sunday night panic attacks, daily 0500 calls for staffing, patient/visitor threats of violence, constant worrying about staff safety, all of it, just....oof. Recently had a false alarm on an active shooter, double oof. Much respect to you and cnut. Be safe 🙏

Almost like Tom Cotton saw that tweet and thought, "he's got a point."

"Muh free dumb!"

This is so awful.

Absolutely this. In less than a week, I've had five more nurses test positive and anticipating more. Surgeries are being reviewed at least daily for proactive surgical/procedural cancelations - inpatient managers are needing to report sick calls and the degree we're short. I know it's often reported in the context of ICU bed/staff availability, but there are larger implications as not all post-op cases go to the ICU. Yay going to be a fun return to work.

Something to consider is not having the personnel to run the labs and not so much the infrastructure itself. Not saying that's the case where you are but my hospital is short staffed in areas outside of nursing - lab techs, physical/occupational therapists, respiratory therapists, etc. - even before any staff end up with COVID (started trending up right before Christmas, been actively avoiding my emails with someone else on call). We're also supporting with some of the community testing. With an increased volume of tests to run, there's only so many any one department can do, especially with limited resources. I wouldn't be surprised if they have contract labor requests out with regional agencies but no one is wanting to take them. As an anecdote: we have some requests for nursing travelers at a crazy competitive rate for the region. We're basically running an auto-acceptance if they have a minimum of 2 years icu experience and experience with our electronic medical record system. Our positions will stay open for weeks at a time. And that's not even taking into consideration the lack of applicants for our career positions. Just a general take, I suppose. Started off with a small comment then veered way off. Healthcare f'ing blows at the moment.

To be fair, our unit isn't a dedicated negative pressure environment and there has been zero patient to staff transmission with N95s primarily used (PAPRs being used for those who fail fit testing or for comfort for nurses who are in the room for a majority of their shift, continuous dialysis/crrt for example). Not to be doom-and-gloom but we've had one vaccinated patient with no past medical history on ecmo. Just sharing to share that it's not a zero percent chance of severe infection if otherwise healthy, and it's ok for people to cautious. And personally, covid messing up your sense of taste and smell (not a loss of taste and smell) is absolutely worth it for me to be extra cautious. I love eating too much to have foods smell like rancid meat or gasoline. 🙃

Fully agreed with all of this. We were lucky and shielded by not having many COVID skeptics last year, but adding COVID deniers/anti-vaxxers into the mix plus short staffing plus a whole bunch of other things has made it pretty rough in recent weeks. I hope you're hanging in there.

So far, "the virus is a hoax! Tell me why I'm short of breath!" types. Even seeing their loved ones with a breathing tube and other tubes/lines, they still reject covid destroyed their loved one's lungs. I expect more of these interactions as covid admissions are increasing.

Same thing happening in my unit - from the disrespectful patients/visitors to the staff's feelings. Visitors as a whole have become so challenging to work with. Saying it's exhausting is an understatement.

If the amount of evidence the defense team presented gave enough room for reasonable doubt, get rid of the judicial system and burn everything to the ground because there's absolutely no point in seeking justice. The amount of evidence the prosecution presented is pretty overwhelming: from other officers saying Chauvin didn't follow policies in de-escalating situations/weren't trained for the neck on the knee restraint, to not allowing EMT to provide care upon arrival, to the video evidence, to the witness testimony (both firsthand saying George Floyd didn't have a pulse with Chauvin still on him for a couple minutes as well as the medical experts, one who testified saying the police wouldn't allow her to provide medical attention), to a sound rebuttal to the medical examiner by bringing in the person who trained him and expanding that she believes George Floyd died of asphyxia and sees no evidence he would have died if had not interacted with the officers. In my mind, Chauvin wasn't educated on what he was doing and he wasn't following protocol, which led to Floyd's death... without even taking into account the knee vs overdose argument because even the defense witness said the stress of the interaction put Floyd over the edge. With that said, I'm hoping for justice, but won't be surprised if Chauvin walks.