Quote (Black XistenZ @ Nov 11 2020 05:28pm)
*laughs in Europe*
Seriously, most parts of Europe had at least 5 times as many daily cases per capita and they're still fine.
I highly doubt that they'll issue strict lockdowns over the holidays. First, nobody would follow it, and second, it would piss people off and turn them against these public health measures in general.
At the end of the day, compliance cannot be mandated, and people will never ever accept a christmas where the goverment prohibits them from seeing their family.
We are getting slaughtered here in Southern Ohio. I don't want to be specific but we have multiple full service hospitals all with ICUs within about a 50 mile radius in my system here, with my ER having over a dozen people medical beds, and every bed in the system full except 4 non ICU across town, and I'm sure the other ERs have people sitting on the floor because there are no seats. There can be up to 50 people on the ER board at a time any given time. People who have been there 30 years say they've never seen anything like this. My friends in other systems around here are telling me they are seeing similar things. Imagine graduating from nursing school into this? So many people I know have gotten sick. We felt terrible for a bit but my wife and I tested neg, my son positive, weird. Mike Dewine got on TV and said WEAR A MASK. IT IS VETERANS DAY, PEOPLE HAVE SACRIFICED MORE FOR THEIR COUNTRYMEN. GOLDEN RULE OHIO. Some people are saying he would be taking more authoritarian measures (not in those words) but he is already threatening to fine businesses that allow unmasked people in their areas, which just seems like a dangerous precedent to set for service employees. I just respond with 'he can't' because I'm a civil libertarian and that is how we roll.
Keep calm and carry on. Wear a mask when around others you don't basically live with, wash your hands, take care of yourselves.
Quote (Santara @ Nov 11 2020 07:06pm)
He's allowing asymptomatic covid positive nurses to work... in the covid wards.
We are not supposed to get tested unless symptomatic to avoid that. If you work in a hospital you have a lot of foul shit living in your body, like colonized MRSA for example. We're gross. The mask is for you lol.
Things are weird. We are doing a lot of disaster planning. If it gets too bad we will have a covid psych ward and a non covid psych ward. We could put the covid positive nurses there lol. We have to keep delivering services, our patients are essential. I know it sounds cheesy but its real.
This post was edited by Skinned on Nov 11 2020 06:47pm