South Dakota nurse: Covid-19 deniers still call Covid a hoax while dying from Covid.
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Yeah, how come they have a 'vaccine' for Coronavirus, but after all this time they haven't come up with a 'vaccine' for stupidity. Makes you think, doesn't it?
Normally 'cancer' rather than 'stupidity' when fucking idiots post this on Facebook constantly and I wish I could reach through the screen and slap them...
That's the thing that blows my mind! He agrees that covid is killing her but says that it was inevitable and is it really any different from the flu and like do we really need these shutdowns? And it's like yeah it is!
I think I would have an aneurysm talking to someone like this.
The human race's evolved so hard that they became intelligent enough to have the choice become bull headedly-stupid.
This is just sad.
I can't stop thinking, that even most of these people might be Trumpists idiots, how many of these people brains were literally destroyed by Fox News, Facebook and whatever far-right rats they listen too. Like being brainwashed so hard that at death's door you keep thinking that the very thing is killing you is not real.
Like I just have no words, is just sad.
I can't stop thinking, that even most of these people might be Trumpists idiots, how many of these people brains were literally destroyed by Fox News, Facebook and whatever far-right rats they listen too. Like being brainwashed so hard that at death's door you keep thinking that the very thing is killing you is not real.
Like I just have no words, is just sad.
I remember people being so offended by his "It's time for the urn," line, and now they're killing themselves. It makes me wonder how things would have turned out if we collectively told these people not to wear masks and that we didn't care if they died - part of me thinks they would have worn as many as they could out of spite.
GoP are evil, the entire party is on Hitler's level of evil, they continue to lie to their own base, as more and more people die..
Almost seems like part of it is a fear reaction along with hate that blinds these people to reality.
Y'know I saw this last night on the news and I really didn't know what to say then.
I still don't know what to say now regarding it. It's so dumb and ridiculous.
All I do know is that I'm so, so, so sorry for healthcare workers right now. As if dealing with this virus isn't enough. As if dealing with the terrible loss of life happening before their very eyes, knowing that some people just don't care. As if having to be one of the last people some of these patients see before dying, having to tell their families about their downward trend and that they can't come in to even see them and being the only person they spend their last moments with day after day.
As if that, and more, wasn't enough, now they have to deal with people like this and refuse to see it even when they themselves are dying. Disrespecting them and telling them that this isn't real, it's all a hoax and it has to be something else.
I just couldn't imagine myself being able to handle that.
I still don't know what to say now regarding it. It's so dumb and ridiculous.
All I do know is that I'm so, so, so sorry for healthcare workers right now. As if dealing with this virus isn't enough. As if dealing with the terrible loss of life happening before their very eyes, knowing that some people just don't care. As if having to be one of the last people some of these patients see before dying, having to tell their families about their downward trend and that they can't come in to even see them and being the only person they spend their last moments with day after day.
As if that, and more, wasn't enough, now they have to deal with people like this and refuse to see it even when they themselves are dying. Disrespecting them and telling them that this isn't real, it's all a hoax and it has to be something else.
I just couldn't imagine myself being able to handle that.
Not shocked. In many ways if you went through this state it doesn't even seem like there's a pandemic. Much of our leadership on the state and city level has failed us, and so many civilians thought that the people here were so spread out we wouldn't see an impact. It's... yeah it's been something, but not surprising from a state that bleeds Red like this one does.
And to the second question: not at all.
NPR picked up the story on their On Point program (Streamable on NPR.org - NOVEMBER 16, 2020 'Protect Each Other': A Doctor's Message From The Coronavirus Surge). Nick Wendell a city counsel member of my city shared that SD cities will have to institute their own mandates as no one is anticipating any guidance on the statewide level, but illustrates that per capita Brookings has the least cases of the 10 most populous cities that is at least partially attributable to the city's mask mandate and capacity restrictions.
It should be pointed out that hoping death on the populous of any state or group of people should probably not be your first instinct. SD is undeniably a red state, but 30-35% of the states population isn't and they are still at risk in their own communities.
It should be pointed out that hoping death on the populous of any state or group of people should probably not be your first instinct. SD is undeniably a red state, but 30-35% of the states population isn't and they are still at risk in their own communities.
People just don't comprehend or simply want to ignore it...ignorance is bliss, amiright?
Like, locally, there's a big-time evangelical preacher who died of COVID over the summer. The Monday before Thanksgiving they're having a big event where they're dedicating a building and renaming it after him...when the pandemic has never been worse and the very man they're honoring DIED of COVID.
You can't make this shit up! People would tell you it's unrealistic if you wrote this into a story!
Like, locally, there's a big-time evangelical preacher who died of COVID over the summer. The Monday before Thanksgiving they're having a big event where they're dedicating a building and renaming it after him...when the pandemic has never been worse and the very man they're honoring DIED of COVID.
You can't make this shit up! People would tell you it's unrealistic if you wrote this into a story!
It is November 17, 2020.
- My wife is still reusing her same "disposable" n95 mask every shift.
- Her hospital floor's 33 beds are a mix of covid, cancer, pre-surgery, post-op, and dementia patients. These are not ICU beds, and definitely not negative-pressure. Some patients are in combinations of 2 or more of the above (covid+cancer!).
- She has covid patients that are in denial that are forcefully shouting, spitting, grabbing, and hugging nurses and techs.
- I have coworkers making six-figures that have still not bought a single mask for themselves or their family.
- Trump Election Hoax and Covid denial stories remain in the top 5 of Facebook content/engagement daily.
I'm not wishing death on them myself, I just have little concern or compassion for their actual deaths. I save that for the living taking this seriously and trying to do something about it even if it's just wearing a mask.
"This will all go away November 4th" was a popular saying, and even the President claimed it after a while. But here we are, November 17th, and it's still a thing - whodathunk?
It's extreme denial as a coping mechanism. They can't make themselves begin to open up to the reality of their own death so they latch onto the only thing that makes them comfortable...denial that it's even happening.