i've learned more about the real on-the-ground ugliness of COVID from r/nursing than I've learned from any other source. Even the most unflinching media portrayals of what COVID does to the unvaccinated and the people who have to care for them leaves a lot out.
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for example last week i learned that a lot of nurses have had to deal with maggots in the intubated bodies of COVID patients, because anybody who has to be intubated for as long as many COVID patients do makes an attractive home for fly larvae, even when they're still alive
The only time I've been mean to a nurse or healthcare worker is when I was out of my mind on morphine after a massive operation. Otherwise I've always treated healthcare workers with the utmost respect.
Do people really do otherwise? What the actual fuck is this world.