This post collected a few of the standouts: https://www.reddit.com/gallery/sxxpo6
edit: I also compiled the bad ones into this three-part, 27k word copypasta for plague rats so you can ask them which one they want to be: https://www.reddit.com/r/FortBadgerton/comments/sy95px/rnursing_what_are_the_worst_covid_patient_last/hxwi4dc/
Fun part is,
no one
cares
and I mean
no one
cares
It's just incredible. We've hit 1 million dead, more dead from an event than ANYTHING in US history and not a single peep.
Wtf....
The hungry ghosts would kill the entire world apart from themselves if it meant one more treat a penny cheaper. One million won't be any more impactful to them than one thousand or ten million.
For the officials, virus control comes first. The people’s lives, well-being and dignity come much later.
Wtf?! How is people's lives, well-being and dignity disconnected from dying a preventable death from covid??? What the fuck is dIgNiFiEd about choking to death with a fucking tube in your throat? Just because they can't go out to fucking restaurant at will?
How the fuck do you, as a person, write something like that and not feel crippling shame
yup, no major movement to hold the US gov accountable for their inability to control covid. not even any discussion about gov incompetence. and of course, nothing from MSM.
I legitimately can’t read anymore of these threads. I don’t even feel anything reading them. I don’t know how people live in these careers every day. I can’t even handle second-hand accounts
Emergency/critical care medicine in general breaks you. I'm glad I got out before COVID because there's no way in hell I'd be able to treat an antivaxxer with some idealised idea of a patient. If the working conditions didn't make me quit, already the impetus two years before it, I'd reach whole new levels of compassion fatigue and secondary exposure PTSD.
That being said, I compiled a copypasta of all the worst comments to send as a three-part 27k word reply to plague rats: https://www.reddit.com/r/FortBadgerton/comments/sy95px/rnursing_what_are_the_worst_covid_patient_last/hxwi4dc/
A naval hospital was the only place where I felt structurally protected or valued in a nursing role. Even as a low-ranking enlisted medic, an LPN-equivalent, I had positional authority where anything medical was concerned unless a higher ranking medical person arrived. I literally stopped a ship to pull a drunk off of it, right under the nose of its captain and master chief without them being able to do a thing as I could theoretically call an admiral. If a patient gave me shit, or better yet if they tried to fight me, not only could I shut them down in that moment without fear of being sued but I could go to their command and derail their career. I could yell at patients, always for good reasons, and they legally had to listen.
Going from that to civilian nursing was like putting on clown shoes. Zero protection from management, zero structural protection unless the patient assaulted me, patients who mistake nurses for butlers and hospitals for hotels. I'd still work in something like MSF where the patients understand the value of what they're receiving but if conscripted into an American ICU tomorrow I'd show up eating edibles.
Pregnant woman on 10L and her fetus died of myocarditis from covid. She was there for a week knowing the fetus had died and she just kept getting sicker. She started going into DIC so we had to intubate her and deliver her baby stillborn. She ended up dying on the tube.
Imagine a machine that kicks any anti-masker or anti-vaxxer in the head whenever it detects movement. What a utopian fucking machine.
Jesus Christ that story is grim.
So I just searched for "covid myocarditis" to get some numbers and the first couple hits are about myocarditis from the mRNA vaccines. Anyway, according to the CDC myocarditis occurs in about 150 in every 100k people who get covid 19. The usual number is only 9 in 100k for people to get myocarditis. For the mRNA vaccine there's been 1991 reported cases out of 192,405,448 people who received a dose which comes out to 1 in 100k.
I knew one where a husband and wife got critically ill and sent to different hospitals. One of them died and no one told the other. When they recovered enough to talk the first thing they wanted to do was talk to their spouse. Days later the staff were able to track down what happened and it just crushed her heart
Especially early in covid people just got lost in the system
When we didn't have the moral courage to replicate Wuhan's crackdown, the pandemic response was left to the worst people on this planet. Pure Freudian death drive given unlimited resources to sustain itself. The next best thing, and the only thing which would have saved us, would be rope crucifixion of the plague rats onto the walls of the ICUs. Make them see these stories so they know what they've done. Make them fill the little body bags that come in trashbag boxes every time their actions murder a new child. If their crime is wearing a suit and condemning people to die for profit, they can wear a suit on the wall of the ICU. They stay there until vaccinated or dead, with absolutely zero concern on my part for which they choose. No compassion, no compassion, no excuses.
