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5 hours ago, Nokra said:

I can already hear Fox News and co. saying that this is the delayed result of Trump's policies.

"Americans are optimistic about the upcoming Trump economy"

Decentraland oh lawdy 

1 hour ago, Amazatron said:

A dance battle would be the absolute cringiest…

 

 

 

What the hellllllllllll

23 minutes ago, Ominous said:

Good luck getting us to pick up the phone if we know you. 

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

On 12/13/2022 at 4:36 PM, TUFKAK said:

We’ve never mattered dude.

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 🙏

27 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

shot

 

 

chaser

 

 

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

"Muh free dumb!"

2 hours ago, osxmatt said:

 

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.

1 hour ago, AbsolutSurgen said:

The problem ATM, is not so much the # of people in ICU beds, but rather the number of health care workers in quarantine, and unable to work.

11 hours ago, Jason said:

 

I guess, it's ridiculous that our testing infrastructure is still a fucking dumpster fire though. I guess I'm gonna go see if that popup is still there, who knows when I'll get the PCR results but they give you the rapid test result on the spot at least. 

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. 🙃

10 hours ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said:

I'm just tired of it all. Job is stressful, it's not like I can shut myself away anyhow, I haven't gone anywhere at all in 3 years, since we decided to skip a trip in 2019 and save some money. That worked out well. We're fully vaxxed, we just wanna go somewhere.

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.

6 hours ago, CitizenVectron said:

 

I have a friend who is a nurse who says the same thing—almost all the people in the hospital right now are anti-mask/anti-vax, and are very disrespectful to the staff. Apparently the nurses and doctors have almost no sympathy for them, they see it as entirely preventable. They of course are treating them and doing all they can, but they basically hate the patients.

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.

I plan to restrict myself after the vaccine becomes widely available to avoid obnoxious people like that. 🙃

What kind of tweet is that?

What a joke. Bad optics or not, Trump and all his enablers need to be held accountable.

Edit: Wishful thinking I know. But 2021 is a new year right? 🙏

13 minutes ago, Spawn_of_Apathy said:

they accept the inevitable outcome, but not the reality as to why. 

As they continue to kick and scream "fuck year feelings" while playing the victim card and calling others dirty librulz snowflakes.

All of the numbers aren't surprising but they're not any less depressing/frustrating. Somebody's head needs to be on a pike for this political negligence.

6 hours ago, Comet said:

narrator: “It won’t be.” 

I know. Trying to stay optimistic. 🙃

5 hours ago, Ricofoley said:

not good

Ouch that's freaking brutal. Our hospital is impacted and our COVID census is low (single digits). We're seeing people getting that new symptom that developed over the past few months checked out (and it being a little more severe than they thought) or scheduling that surgery now that the local COVID numbers are on the decline. I am hoping for a flu season is mild this year... 

9 hours ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said:

I'm drawing a blank as to who Bill Mitchell is. But, yeah. It'd be a bit much to make patients wear a mask 24/7 in a private room. One of my buddies says where he works patients have to wear them if staff is in the room, but otherwise not.

Yea that's how it is at my hospital also, patients are asked to wear a mask when staff enter the room. Staff are also asked to wear a mask at all times (and a face shield if the patient refuses to wear a mask). Visitation was freed up a tiny bit (generally non-covid patients can have visitation if they met certain criteria and end-of-life for COVID patients) a little while ago and visitors are also expected to wear a mask at all times, and will be refused entry/escorted out if they refuse to wear a mask (which is also provided if they don't bring one).

On a side note, a few friends and family of mine who are nurses continue to meet with other friends, posting pictures on social media with no one wearing masks. Don't mind the get togethers as much, but I feel as healthcare workers, taking pictures without masks around non-household people minimizes the need for a mask.

The whole thing is so disheartening. Knowing it's going to last for a while but actually doing it are two different things. It's exhausting (emotionally and physically) as hell.

3 hours ago, Joestradamus said:

Disgusting piece of shit. It's just a damn number to this fuckwit. He doesn't care at all. Our family last night lost another relative to covid-19, she spent over two months in a coma stuck on a ventilator but her body just couldn't take it anymore. This whole covid situation being so horribly mishandled is making me angrier every day. Republicans who sit idly by and let this garbage get worse piss me the fuck off so damn much. Seeing people just going out, eating out, traveling, and so on piss me off so damn much, especially when they are not wearing a mask, and especially moron trumpers and anti-maskers. This country is fucked man

I'm sorry to hear for your loss, losing a loved one during these times can take its toll on the grieving process. Hope you're hanging in there.

Feel the same way about Republicans, they're beyond horrible. Also, healthcare workers who parrot the hydroxychloroquine/anti-mask bullshit can fuck right off, right along with the forever Trumpers. A nurse I know shared that stupid viral Brietbart video on Facebook... I couldn't fucking believe it.

12 hours ago, Brick said:

 

You're right about the courts, ss that can have repercussions for decades to come. If Biden does win then maybe RBG, and some of the other older liberal judges will retire so that younger liberal judges can take their place, and protect important issues like Roe V. Wade, which the conservatives are dead set on reversing. Maybe it is naïve of me to think Biden can be persuaded (not being American I'm not super familiar on his history), but I can't help but hope out hope that others in the party, and of course the people, will help to push him a little more left on issues. At the very least with Biden winning, and other Democrats getting voted in down the ballet they can maybe make some positive changes. For example Biden might not be for legalizing marijuana on the national level, but perhaps a state that goes from Red to Blue will have a new Governor that legalizes it statewide. 

 

 

 

 

Incidentally, I responded to my friend's post using much of what you said, including @Chairslinger's more cheeky response, combined with what I initially said in my post, and this is what he had to say,

 

"the numbers on the coronavirus deaths are over-inflated by AT LEAST 20% which would put it in the same margin as common influenza. George Floyd was originally counted as a corona death ffs. 

*gesturing at everything* is doing what? you have the first global pandemic in the world and race riots instigated by the democratic party using BLM to collect campaign funds. what are you expecting, a tea party? Biden can hardly form a sentence and you expect a better job?

I'm not a trump supporter or a conservative by any means but it doesn't take a genius to realize that you're choosing between 2 evil people. One of which is just a career politician that's done more damage to black communities than the KKK, and participated in the literal war crimes. I don't need to go over Trump scandals, you hear them in the news daily. point of the post is at the end of the day you're just picking your oppression. The only thing it's "not helping" is a bias vote. if you're picking 1 piece of shit over another, it helps to know how big of a turd you're dealing with. it's "not helping' if you turn a blind eye to your own parties' faults and shortcomings. 

If Biden gets elected, (and don't get me wrong I am hopeful he wins), theres a mountain of issues and scandals that have to be addressed. It's not a "WIN" for anyone, its at best a less risky loss."

 

There's a lot to unpack here. 

3 hours ago, Jason said:

 

"Many" doctors and studies

or

Many "doctors and studies"

This walking Chia pet is too much.