Posted on 09/16/2021 11:42:35 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
A Nashville nurse wrote an op-ed in the Scientific American detailing her experience as a nurse during the pandemic, saying the current wave of delta cases is much worse than what she experienced last year.
“It is so much worse this time. We all have so much less to give. We are still bearing the fresh and heavy grief of the past year and trying to find somewhere to put all this anger. But the patients don’t stop coming,” Kathryn Ivey, a critical care nurse at a medical center in Nashville, said.
“The numbers are higher now than they’ve ever been, the patients coming in younger and sicker. Death is at my shoulder again, as silent as he is relentless,” she said.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
True but that is nowhere near as “Hamlet-esque” as what she said.
[or maybe Jim Morrison is writing her lines]
:)
It’s just *weird*, innit?
She drinks and crys alone too often.
What you did there, I see it.
wonder what changed within the past year that could’ve made things worse...
“But I didn’t have the salmon!”
Great movie.
someone spelled enema wrong...
*ick*
;D
I agree. I searched her name and several articles came up with her as the center of attention. Personally I think she would say anything they want her to just so she can have another 15 minutes of fame.
My daughter is a newly minted RN working in critical care in Florida. She is overwhelmed by the number of patients she is handling. The law says they are limited to three patients per nurse, but she is hearing that a nearby hospital is handling four per nurse...no choice. They are talking about opening another area for these cases but do not have enough qualified to staff them. The nurses are BURNED OUT and OVERWHELMED. Many have left or are considering leaving the field. Protesters are out in front of her hospital screaming and carrying signs that read, “Hospitals are KILLING PEOPLE!” Yeah, that helps morale.
She tells me that the patients ARE coming in much younger this time. You don’t know me. You can disbelieve me (many will), but we’ve all had COVID (including her) and won’t get the vaxx. Whatever this thing is, it is very real. I believe the blame should be at the local clinic level where they refuse to treat the illness with anything, instead sending folks home to “deal with it” on their own. Then they show up in Emergency Rooms and from there ICU/CCU units. It is too late to treat for COVID (or anything else) at that point. They are just trying to keep them alive.
Are the ones coming in vaccinated or not? Both, I hear. I am not hearing about folks coming in who already survived it. Most have underlying conditions. It is what it is. And it isn’t COVID killing them in the CCU. At that point, it is organ failure...mainly lungs (damaged from being on ventilators, but no choice if you can’t breathe).
That’s my take on it based upon a family member dealing with it now. Believe what you want. But attacking the remaining healthcare workers seems to be a very foolish reaction to me.
“wonder what changed within the past year that could’ve made things worse...”
Well, if the “delta variant” is actually side effects of the jab, and many more people have been jabbed, that would account for it.
“She probably writes romance novels in her spare time when she’s not saving lives…”
Probably saves live as atonement for writing romance novels.
No one I would know talks like that and I’m a currently active ICU RN still after 35 years.She sounds like one of those that we hope would quickly go to NP school or get promoted to some Stroke navigator position just so she would get away from us and the patients. She might be good as a NPR news announcer or correspondent...complete with that world weary tone of voice all of the NPR broadcasters use.
“From Covid worn Anytown Hospital...this is Silvia Macaroni for NPR news!”
“The death toll was THREE times higher in Dec/Jan 2021.”
We have few facts to work with. Here are a couple.
1. The PCR is useless in diagnosing the ‘rona. Cannot distinguish between ‘rona and flu. Nonetheless, it is the source of our “fatality” numbers. Even after the CDC told us that it is completely useless, the forces of evil continue to use it. Or, perhaps, they merely pretend to use it, while making up whatever numbers they want.
2. For a constellation of reasons, ‘rona cases and deaths were hugely—hugely, hugely, hugely—over-reported.
We DO NOT KNOW—nor can we even guess—what the death toll was in Dec/Jan 2021. Or now. Or at any other time. We have no idea whether the “delta variant” exists, or is a misinterpretation of the side effects of the jab.
2020, not 2021. Unless I’ve had a major stroke.
could be that...
could be the hundreds of thousands of disease carrying invaders that biden is freely spreading across our country during a “global pandemic”...
could be a combination of both...
all we know is anything that biden preaches about stopping the spread of anything can’t be trusted...
“could be the hundreds of thousands of disease carrying invaders that biden is freely spreading across our country during a “global pandemic”
How would we know, given the lack of a test for the ‘rona?
“all we know is anything that biden preaches about stopping the spread of anything can’t be trusted...”
There’s no arguing with that.
Most times the lungs are already looking like Hurricane Ida, before we put them on Vents. The damage that virus can do to some is horrific. If they don’t go on vents, mortality is 100 percent, we’ve shaved 20 percent of that off and sometimes better if the patient can go onto ecmo...even then it’s often a lung transplant for a lucky few. I’m thankful most people( 98.3 percent) who get the disease will get over it.
What ever would we do if covid were a straight 33 percent mortality disease with 50 percent of the population expected to get some form of the disease during a regional epidemic, like small pox used to be?
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