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 ...
Thank you and you are correct.
WOW!! That is literary brilliance.
whatever we would do if we had a government that took the kung flu seriously and stopped spreading hundreds of thousands of disease carrying invaders across our country during a “global pandemic” like a responsible government should be?...
The ruling aholes are taking advantage of our population’s normalcy bias and it will take something like a major domestic pearl harbor issue to galvanize folks against them. It will leave the country split though is what i fear...just try to be located in one of the better parts of the former US(limited government, conservative values); it would be tough for such people for a while but things will come out better, especially for our children.
the country is already split...
and it’s splintering into smaller groups due to the fear of the kung flu and people arguing about the fauxcines...
we’re being played...
Ever notice that the covid is taking out lots of people outside of DC but not in the beltway?
How many senators are over 80 years old? Lots
How many of them have gotten sick and died? Zero
I know!
No one has EVER written such spectacularly iconic prose before!!!
:D
Question for Nurse Ivey:
How many of these patients have been treated with Ivermectin, HCQ, monoclonal antibodies, etc?
If the answer is “none,” I won’t be surprised.
My daughter was an ER Nurse for over 10 years. Covid pushed her over the edge. She is now at a different hospital in the Cardio-Cath Unit. She feels less stress there.
Well nice to hear your daughter has a less stressful assignment.
The ER gets intense. Some people get burned out by it sometimes. Covid has made an impact. Times have changed too. People have changed.
Too many are impatient,self-centered, angry, over entitled, entitled period.
And I thought 1995 was bad.
““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.
(I can write better fiction than that.)
“Hark!” the nurse shouted. “The masked stranger on a gallant white horse, he hears our cries.”
“Hi-ho, Fauci, and away,” cried the masked stranger as his Indian companion, Chemo Sabby, adjusted his hazmet respirator.
Then, in an instant, the fourth wave of covid from the legendary, submerged continent of Mu brutally attacked the defenseless nurse. The masked stranger pulled his virus-shooter, took careful aim and shot the unvaccinated cat held by nurse Many-Cats-But-No-Husband.
Some states are suffering more than others. Idaho, West Virginia, Tennessee, and Mississippi have the worst crises right now because of their health-care systems being stressed to the max.
Examples from another state don’t prove that we don’t have a problem. We are all one country.
Now we are being heartless to the health care workers as well as to the sick and dying? What has happened to Free Republic?
Who is being heartless and to whom?
She really gets around.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/exhausted-covid-19-nurses-viral-photo-shows-what-its-like-staring-down-a-tsunami/ar-BB1bExQp
Those charts are interesting, and what they appear to show is that while in raw numbers the youngest are mostly at similar levels as the peak early in the year, as a proportion of cases that the youngest groups are much higher in the Aug 28 total then they were. Beginning at 12-15, and 16-17, the number of cases are the largest groups, with 5-11 following closely behind the highest other rates. Deaths are still very low.
From her Twitter account...
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For now we are. Sounds almost like you’re hoping that changes.
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