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 power of ideology is truly breathtaking. I saw a poster on patriots.win who was convinced his own son was a "crisis actor" after there was a shooting at the son's school
Oh yeah. That was one of the parkland kids if I’m not mistaken. Absolutely breathtaking the level of brainwashing that right wing media has managed over the past 30-40 years.
It's actually a cult