[ladyjane]

The ER is a huge risk. Imagine checking this guy’s lymph nodes. Imagine taking his temperature, throwing the plastic cover in the trash - covered with his saliva. Thinking about it is making me sick.

[cuban leaf]

The ER is a huge risk. Imagine checking this guy’s lymph nodes. Imagine taking his temperature, throwing the plastic cover in the trash - covered with his saliva. Thinking about it is making me sick.

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In the ER, people wear gloves. People scrub. the trash is not touched by human hands. In the home, they shake hands, they hug, they kiss, they may share a glass of milk or use the same glass for a drink of water. And they do it more than once.

[Lazamataz]

We're all gonna die!!!!
Curl up in a little ball under the table
Or better yet, I'm staying in bed

[wrench]

In the past 2 months I had to take my elderly mother to the ER twice. Symptoms were vomiting, bloody diarrhea, fever, weakness and dehydration.

In 2 ER visits, she spent a total of 11 hours waiting with no isolation from other patients, and staff wasn’t even wearing gloves.

This is how the ER visits for this guy went, or “there ain’t no cows in Texas”.