So getting back to the topic of the thread... A couple of items from the KC Star, which document life among the unvaccinated folks with covid in Missouri...
This dad wasn't an anti-vaxer, he just never made the time. After nearly dying he is recovering, but all of his kids got covid after he initially isolated at home for 2 weeks. His wife (who was vaccinated) was the only family member that remained covid free. He's speaking out...
“These nurses, doctors, are overwhelmed. They are doing the best they can but the emergency rooms are so busy with COVID patients they can’t even stop to clean up the vomit from one patient before they get a code blue and have to run because someone is dying. They are not showing us that on the nightly news. People don’t get it. This is not the sniffles.”
This is even more bizarre, as columnist Michael Ryan shares what a nurse friend has experienced while working in a KC covid ward...
"the sight of guilt-ridden young children who believe they’ve killed
an unvaccinated parent by bringing the virus home.
“And as they’re dying, the kids are at the bedside apologizing,” a hospital nurse tells me.
“You’ve actually seen that?” I ask her.
“Multiple times,” says the nurse."
Vaccine hesitancy dies hard...
"One man
on the cusp of needing intubation told my friend’s nursing colleague she was an idiot for being vaccinated.
“He asked her if she’d had her vaccine, and he was just like, ‘You’re stupid,’” the nurse says. “Just laid into her about how everybody’s falling for what the government says and COVID’s not real and you shouldn’t get the vaccine.
While he’s laying in an ICU bed.”
There was another man who showed up to the hospital and after getting him hooked up to oxygen, the staff urged him to agree to admit himself. After berating the staff (covid isn't real etc...) he walked out of the hospital, still tethered to the oxygen. The nurse recounted that they later discovered that within 12 hrs of leaving their hospital the man was already on a ventilator at another hospital...The frustrated nurse put it this way...
"We’re all so exhausted we don’t want to beg you to stay, but we do because we know you’re going to leave and die.”
One man walked out of a Kansas City hospital, still tethered to oxygen. And 12 hours later, he was on a ventilator in another emergency room. | Opinion from Michael Ryan
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