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
She's fucking exhausted and that's an expression of it. There's not a lot to it.
I usually express that as shoving food into my own mouth, as do most people around me. I'm not saying she's necessarily eating ice cream of off someone or something like that, just that it is kinda weird. The phrasing is off.