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The Pandemic: 2 Years Later From A Tired Nurse (Page 3)
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Change careers if you’re tired of it. Seriously. I’m tired of all this propaganda making it seem like people who are against masks and taking the vaccine are heartless shitty people. I’m tired of the USA the country I have lived in my entire life basically being turned into a communist dictatorship. All kinds of bullshit rules and restrictions that accomplish absolutely nothing but causing all kinds of mental health problems and strife between the citizens. As much as I empathize with you, I am very tired too.
Cool.
Yeah and let’s remember that this girl supports all unvaxxed nurses being fired. You deserve to be tired, you throw your comrades under the bus. Absolute trash
@Shamalien they should be fired. I am absolutely in favor of that. If I go to a hospital I want to know the staff is vaccinated.
@This_Is_My_Opinion8 why?
@This_Is_My_Opinion8 why should they be fired if the vaccine doesn’t stop the spread?
Because it slows the spread. Because it lowers the change of mutation. Because it reduces the severety of the symptoms.
I never read long questions or takes. I did read all of yours. Nicely written. Easy to get across and detailed information.
I completely agree and understand your point.
Yet..
If only vaccination was a cure.. if only vaccination would really "end" it all.
If only we knew the truth about who made this and spread it, for the purpose of playing Thanos
if only we knew what these fresh new vaccines will do to us in the long run.
All of it is sad, infuriating and tiresome... we will for sure be in history books that's for sure. Some periods in time go by unremembered but ours will be talked about and taught a hundred years from now, if the world of people still exists.
The first cases of Covid were in America back in November 2019 from Chinese fleeing Wuhan during the first outbreak. I was working construction at SOFI stadium at the time. Everyone at the stadium was getting sick around Nov, Dec, and January. We all knew it was a weird kind of flu but not the regular flu. From that time on till now the CDC has done nothing but lie and make absurd recommendations. Only to be compounded by these idiotic mandates. Fact is that everyone has had it and will get it again. Any anxiety you have about being exposed is due to all the bullshit CNN and the mainstream media put out about the virus. Just accept that it is endemic now and has been since April 2020. That is how biological weapons work. Just be thankful that this wasn't the black death we feared it could have been.
Yea. The regular flu actually kills more people.
@Rambling010 At least it used to... Notice how the never mention the regular flu anymore?
They don't mention the regular flu because the tests can't differentiate.
I wish you good luck, and as a part of society thank you for helping those who need it and for all of your sacrifices as a healthcare worker during this pandemic.
Very good mytake, I’ve been vaccinated since April and booster since November, my stepson works in respiratory care and saw so much and so many people die. I know so many people that got Covid but they were fine after a week, nobody died but never wanted to get that again. I managed to avoid it somehow and never got it but so many at work got it but we were essential workers too so I’ve been working the whole time like many people
I know many front line healthcare workers like you who are living day to day with this and it is very stressful and consuming to say the least. People who try to minimize this have NO IDEA what this is like. You put in a long day dealing with the critically ill (not all of them elderly either), not knowing if the next day is the day you're going to quit out of stress. Thank you for your post!
Wow. My mom retired from being an RN in 2000. She was one for 60 years. She told me she's happy she retired. Im sending you all the positive and prayers I got!
Thank you! I know more than a few that left nursing early and are nothing but happy now.
@SecretsofKB I think once (God Willing) this stuff with be over, the usual CHF, Gerry-psych, Peds patients and hospice patients will be there.. Nothing as severe as this Covid.
@legalboxers Unfortunately, all of the usual stuff we see is still there. People didn't stop being sick for other reasons because of COVID. This is leading to people not getting the care they need.
@SecretsofKB I know. 2 of my friends are in the profession still who I talk to daily, 4 others who I went to HS with dont talk about the shitshow. In 2020 Im where the epicenter of this happened. It wasn't good. The city was a fucking ghost town
@legalboxers I couldn't even imagine what it would like to be in a much larger city than mine. It was bad here but could only be worse in bigger areas.
@SecretsofKB Going food shopping felt like we were in a 3rd world country here. If I ever get kids. I wouldn't know how to explain it to them
I'm sorry but this is manipulative. Like getting a shot that was said to be effective for 6 mo. and a nd now is only effective for 3 mo. is a scam. You are having a hard time because people haven't been exposed to germs for months so when they finally return to life as usual they get sick in a heartbeat. This virtue signaling is a bunch of crap. And I'm sorry you think that everyone getting a shot will make it all go away. I'm here to tell you it won't.
My questions didn't get answered either. Oh well.
@Daniela1982 ?
My question to the OP on if this was really happening when I don't see it where I live.
@Daniela1982 oh yeah
Thank you so much for this conversation. Yes Pandemic none of us been through one. And yet we all going through it now. Replace nurse with prison
I went through a terrible experience getting long term covid. I been sick with covid these 2 years. I no longer work either. You are right about breathing. Bless you tired nurse.
It's hard for us average people to understand what's going on when there is so much contradictory information. Here's another nurse and her opinions of the pandemic and how it's being handled.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/5SVO0lc_1_o96% of doctors are vaccinated against Covid. To say that there is conflicting information when 4 doctors out of 100 might possibly claim the vaccine is unnecessary is being disingenuous.
www.ama-assn.org/.../ama-survey-shows-over-96-doctors-fully-vaccinated-against-covid-19
@RolandCuthbert there will always be people who'd rather tie themselves in silly mental knots based on ideology
@nachosaresexy It is so weird. I was taught Conservative values in high school. Went liberal for a time in my youth, I guess just being rebellious. But I returned to the ideology in my adulthood. And it was because Conservatism was different than a lot of other ideologies. It actually stood for something. Even as I could disagree with portions of it. It actually stood for keeping a society functioning and stable.
Liberals seemed to want to tear everything down, the good with the bad. Other ideologies were just so extreme and nonsensical. But Conservatives were that dependable rock.
Nowadays, it is the reverse. There is no such thing as objective fact any longer in what folks call "Conservatism". It is just a popularity contest of political opinions.
@RolandCuthbert probably because they’d be fired if they weren’t lmao
@RolandCuthbert When the pandemic first started, the medical community told us that we have to stop this disease. When vaccines first came out, they were described as being 85% effective at stopping the virus. Now that same medical community is telling us that the vaccine doesn't prevent the virus, it only reduces its severity. That conflict with what we were first told, as well as conflicting with what all other vaccines (MMR, for example, prevents measles, mumps and rubella) do.
And, on top of that, we hear that a significant number of vaccinated people are catching COVID, and that a significant number of unvaccinated people are either not catching COVID or are getting a mild case of it.
Your 96% number is interesting, but what about the 4% of doctors that aren't vaccinated. Are they wrong while the 96% are right? How do we know? That's the Lemmings argument... and they all jumped off a cliff to their deaths because they blindly followed their leader.
All of this IS confusing, and why I believe that mandates don't make sense, and why it should be an individual decision to get vaccinated or not.
@AviatorTom regardless of variant, the vax mitigates level of illness/hospitalization/death. you're missing the forest for the trees.
@AviatorTom Well, if your version of the medical community is the four percent that may not believe in vaccines, that may be the source of your confusion.
As for me, my doctor (s), told me to get vaccinated as soon as I could. Because I was approaching 50 years old, I didn't have any real medical issues to speak of, but my family has a history with diabetes and heart problems.
As for what was posted in the press, I have no idea about your figures. I argued this for months in this forum and I have no want or need to look at the statistics I posted two years ago.
I was told that getting vaccinated would greatly reduce my chances of contracting and transmitting the virus. Then even if I did contract it, it would reduce the severity. That has been pretty consistent.
The issue here is, that science is about the search for the truth. It isn't a political exercise. A politician changes his mind because he is trying to get more votes. A scientist changes his mind because he receives new information.
So no one is trying to deceive you on the issue of taking a vaccine. We have been taking vaccines for decades. All this anti-vax stuff is new.
So it is your personal choice whether you want to take the vaccine. And it is everyone else's personal choice as to whether they will hire you, allow you in their store, on their property, etc.
@RolandCuthbert 😭😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
"A politician changes his mind because he is trying to get more votes. A scientist changes his mind because he receives new information."
And that pretty much sums up this chain of comments.
Like the politicians vs scientists changing of minds/stances, which of those things people choose to follow is a pretty basic litmus test of identifying those who are capable of clear thinking vs. chasing ideology.
so forget what you learned and the media for a second. from what you see and experience in your professional environment, do you think the vaccines actually helped anyone?
also what i heard from others working in this area is that what maked work so horrible is the panic and the extreme caution and sanitary measures not actually the disease itself.
what's your take on this?
From my professional experience, vaccines do help people. No doubt in my mind. Since the vaccines came out, I've had less than 10 patients that were vaccinated. And they all recovered. The rest of my patients have been unvaccinated.
As for the sanitary precautions and all the measures taken to protect healthcare workers, I'm not going to complain about being safe. Ever.
well i wasn't asking about vaccines generally :D i know vaccines do help people generally. i'm not trying to contest that. i was asking about this particular one. i mean i don't see many people with the polio vaccine still getting polio or with a tetanus vaccine still getting tetanus, if you know what i'm saying.
i was just asking the question because i know someone who works as a doctor in austria and he said that their job only became hell, cause they had to take those exaggerated precautions and that they could help people way better if those measures would not have been introduced. because he said in his clinic, all the workers got covid anyway, which sucked but luckily it wasn't such a high risk disease for the staff. more for the patients. and they they always sent sick workers home anyway to protect the patients.
I was referring ti the COVID vaccine in my response.
And I'll admit that I was annoyed with how often the guidelines changed in the beginning, but we just wanted to be cautious.
ok. thank you for your honest opinion. much appreciated :)
sorry, i have another question. according to medical forums in my country, vaccine reactions and side-effects go largely unreported, cause while doctors are legally obliged to file reports for this, doctors aren't paid any extra money to file the reporting (which can take up to an hour per case) and during this unpaid hour, they can not help other people, they routinely sacrifice the reporting to the better help for the sick people. do you find that to be a thing in your work place?
No worries!!
So I don't work in the clinic where the vaccines are given, so I can't give you an exact answer for that. But I do know the CDC has a system set up for reporting adverse events from vaccinations.
Whether or not it is required for physicians to report is beyond me. I'll ask around while I'm at work tomorrow and I'll see what I can find out for you.
wow that would be really cool :) it's difficult to really find out what's true these days. since i saw the media, politics and even "some" proper scientists straight up lying, hardly trust any information i find online. specially not the official one anymore.
I know how you feel. Its really hard to know who to trust anymore.
When I inevitably forget to come back and answer your question after work tomorrow, dont hesitate to remind me! I need reminders a lot lol
XD if you wanna make the time for that. i will maybe forget for a few days too :D buys life. but i'll think of it eventually.
hey, i just remembered xD did you happen to ask around? by the way i do have corona now xD
I am sorry you have to go through this. In my work, I deal with suicides on a fairly regular basis, so I know something of your despair and fatigue.
It may help to remember that even the anti-vaxxers and Covid deniers are also ill - it is just a different kind of illness than the type you are used to, and it is very difficult to treat as you probably know.
Yep, it's mainly people who are most at-risk that are not vaccinated that are still clogging up resources. Like obese or preexisting conditions that could make covid worse like uncontrolled asthma. Many don't see a primary care doc so they limp along life until they fall down and can't get up, and that just adds to it.
Majority of people will do fine regardless of vax status, just this special segment of people think they are invincible, then they get it and end up hospitalized.
I'm tired for no other reason than that it has gone on endlessly for 2 years, which in my opinion is 2 years too long
Over here in the UK I've listened to nurses who are whistle blowers. They've said that the majority of people in hospital have been the vaccinated due to adverse reactions. Most experts haven't even got a clue about the ingredients in the fake covid vaccines. And we don't even have any long term safety data. And now these crazy people want to give this fake vaccine to children. A very sick world we live in.
that's a sad story. but the general public just doesn't see the china virus the way you do. we don't know anyone who died of it. we got the sniffles for a few days and a heavy wet feeling in our chest and that was that. You see the worst cases.
the vaccine has caused me more suffering than the virus has. i got a swelling in my chest similar to arthritis and now even 6 months later sleeping on my stomach is still kinda painful sometimes
You are not a nurse. You not a doctor. Take yourself to the hospital so a medical professional can ascertain what is wrong with you. To blame your ailments on the vaccine with no confirmed diagnosis is irresponsible. And as a person who has had two family members die of complications from Covid, I would say that perhaps some things are worse than not being able to sleep on your stomach.
@RolandCuthbert i did go to the doctor...
Right and the doctor said you are untreatable due to your insistence on getting the vaccine?
@RolandCuthbert that statement has nothing to do with anything we are even talking about.
i wish your kind had the speech articulation we do
@RolandCuthbert are you a doctor? What about all the nurses and doctors that agree with him? Do you invalidate them or do you stand with that? Don’t use “you’re not a doctor” unless you’re gonna be consistent, which you can’t be because nurses and doctors are on both sides of it.
@tiajoka Don't lie about saying doctors and nurses are on both sides of it. The scientists who are responsible for vaccinations are 96% agreed on the safety and use of vaccines. I am not a doctor, I never claimed to be. I told this troll to go see a doctor. No anti-vax troll is here with some medical diagnosis making the claim that vaccines made him or her sick.
That is a lie.
www.ama-assn.org/.../ama-survey-shows-over-96-doctors-fully-vaccinated-against-covid-19
www.vox.com/.../vaccines-science-community-evidence
@RolandCuthbert lmao there are on both sides. And they’re only so vaccinated because they’d be fired otherwise. You know why a third of nurses dropped out? They didn’t want to get vaccinated.
@RolandCuthbert interesting that you didn’t respond to me saying why so many are vaccinated on the other comment 😂 fauchi got your tongue?
@tiajoka yes roland would prefer a much simpler world. but that just isn't the one we live in
@tiajoka No, there aren't two sides to a simple fact. Either the vast majority of scientists agree that vaccinations are the result of sound scientific research or they do not.
Taking a possible four scientists word out of 100 isn't rational.. It isn't logical. Nor is it common sense.
You can believe whatever you wish. But to claim that established scientific fact is in dispute is not even making an attempt at being reasonable.
As for your witchcraft, when you think of a spell that cures Covid, look me up.
Oh, I have much more fruitful pursuits than explaining how simplistic logic works to cowardly anonymous trolls, who spread lies in cyberspace to avoid the consequences of their words in their real lives.
@RolandCuthbert ah, typical poorly educated little one. you think science is about siding with the majority... when most major scientific discoveries start out as unpopular and fringe
i understand roland. you're simply not up to our caliber
by the way... even john hopkins medical school now admits lockdowns increased the spread of the virus, and the dept of ed's most recent study found no benefit to masking children... your experts have been wrong. constantly wrong
LOLx10!!!
You are only a cowardly anonymous troll. You are making this way too complicated.
Let me translate for the forum.
@007kingifrit I BELIEVE THE SCIENCE THAT CONFIRMS MY POLITICAL BELIEFS.
Your argument isn't that science is bad or good. It is that science is only good when it confirms your politics and bad when it does not. And it has nothing to do with scientific research or how many scientists believe one way or the other.
Nothing you have posted or will post in the future will have anything to do with the science around vaccines. It will only have to do with your narrow, nonsensical insane backwards politics.
@RolandCuthbert that's ironic. you are literally talking about yourself
YOU only believe the science that matches your politics, i believe whichever scientists have a better incentive structure, a track record of being correct, and empirical data to back it up
empirical data: countries that didn't lock down do not have higher death rates
incentives: your medical "experts" want to keep their high paying job. they are not just doctors... but bureaucrats. So they are going to defend whatever answer is most acceptable to the public writ large. not the truth
data: the studies i just mentioned which are newer and contain more empirical methods than whatever you were viewing a year ago when you formed these opinions
Ignorance is an astounding thing
Haha! Don't get mad at me. You exposed yourself a long time ago. Posting crap like there are two sides to this argument.
There is only one side. And that is scientific fact. That's why you post nothing about the science. You don't even attempt to post something from the 4% of possible scientists who may agree with you. Because your point is not about science. It is about your politics.
And the thing is you are just playing dumb. Your behavior betrays you. Because anonymous trolls don't troll anonymously because they are right. They do it because they are liars and cowards. They do it to avoid the consequences of their words. You are not dumb enough to say this stuff in public. Well perhaps you are if you are just another sorry incel living out of his momma's basement. But most of us know even if you live in a state like a Florida or Texas, you will comply with your employer's vaccine policy or you will not have a job.
So folks you don''t have to believe me, you can read workers and employee rights at the link.
Anonymous trolls sit up here playing games all day with nothing to lose. I am an employer, I have everything to lose by not knowing the law.
A troll's words will not save your life nor your job. Everyone should listen to their doctor and know their rights as employees.
www.osha.gov/.../OSHA4159.pdf
My sister is a nurse too. I am so sorry for what you are enduring. And thank you so much for all of it!
To think that people with your level of psychosis promoting blatant pseudoscience and misinformation are the ones I’ll be left to if I need medical treatment…absolutely terrifying.
I don’t think she’s a real nurse
^ the ECHO CHAMBER OF DERP
@Kingofkings1992 @Shamalien are you two serious?
@This_Is_My_Opinion8 it’s called critical thinking and listening to both sides of the argument, try it sometime. Anyone with an open mind and eyes unclouded sees what’s going on here
@Shamalien
It is hard to think you know what is going on here when you haven't seen it with your own eyes.
Hey remember our conversation? I was working in a hospital in 2020. I know many nurses who vehemently disagree with you. Older, experienced nurses, wise nurses, not dumb fuck brainwashed kids like you, assuming you even are a nurse
You know, the nurses who saved countless lives for decades before you even started, the ones who you believe should be fired because they aren’t in your cult.
I do remember that conversation. Just because that is the way old nurses and doctors thought in the past, does not mean that is how they should be thinking now.
And respectfully, you were working in a hospital in 2020. It is now 2022. Things have changed significantly since then. From the way we treat patients to the overall culture in the hospital. Things are not the same as the last time you worked in one. Especially, bedside.
I did and I do. Still no idea how you can be serious.
@This_Is_My_Opinion8 bullshit
Yeah the medical establishment has gone insane, fired all the sane people, and filled with young naive delusional female nurses like yourself who are easily brainwashed and don’t have the life experience to realize what they’re participating in
The fired ones are the brainwashed ones. Somehow believing that the vaccination doesn't work because of misinformation.
Thank you for writing this, and for what you do for people. We all owe you debt f gratitude. I work for a hospital system in a capacity where I am not patient facing but I interact with docs and nurses and medical leadership daily, so I hear the horror stories daily as well. The things you clinician go through are rough, and the patients and their families obviously as well.
What really bothers me though is the attitudes of so many people toward all of this. So selfish and ignorant.
I suggest you check out the website of Andrew Kaufman MD and/or the book Contagion Myth by Thomas S. Cowan. Never was a virus isolated. Never was a virus proven to be contagious. Yes people are dying. But it's not scientifically proven that a virus is the cause those deaths.
I suggest you read a pathophysiology book. Like any of them...
You're suggestion is too broad. Could you advice me a book that specifically addresses viruses?
*Your
Search for any pathophysiology textbook on Amazon or something. They will have a chapter dedicated to infectious diseases.
I will do that