Please don't make light of COVID. Yes, some people just suffer a really bad flu and then get better.
I work as a medical dispatcher, and I was hired JUST to handle transfers of COVID patients in my state, because there are people needing intubation in an ICU but are sitting in the ER because there's no room. My job is calling every hospital in the state, trying to find empty beds to put these patients in. Most of them are ICU.
I've been facilitating transfers of tiny ass 94+ year old women back home after long stays in the ICU, and I cheer every time those battle axes survive. I see folks my age get admitted for regular beds and get sent home a week later without needing intubation.
But that's not the case for everyone.
It wasn't the case for the 37 year old man who laughed and complained about wearing a mask and died three days after getting COVID. https://www.insider.com/ohio-man-veteran-died-coronavirus-mask-facebook-posts-2020-7
It wasn't the case for the 4 year old I was trying DESPERATELY to find a PICU bed for- he died while I was spending hours on the phone with every hospital in my state trying to find an open bed for him. He was exactly three months from turning five.
It wasn't the case for a friend of mine from high school. She was in band with me, and had strong lungs and a strong immune system. She got COVID and recovered- but she suffered a common lasting problem with the virus, blood clots in her lungs, and she passed away at the age of 36.
So maybe for you, it might be a bad flu. For other people, it's literally life or death, so don't mock people scared for their loved ones and themselves.
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I work as a medical dispatcher, and I was hired JUST to handle transfers of COVID patients in my state, because there are people needing intubation in an ICU but are sitting in the ER because there's no room. My job is calling every hospital in the state, trying to find empty beds to put these patients in. Most of them are ICU.
I've been facilitating transfers of tiny ass 94+ year old women back home after long stays in the ICU, and I cheer every time those battle axes survive. I see folks my age get admitted for regular beds and get sent home a week later without needing intubation.
But that's not the case for everyone.
It wasn't the case for the 37 year old man who laughed and complained about wearing a mask and died three days after getting COVID. https://www.insider.com/ohio-man-veteran-died-coronavirus-mask-facebook-posts-2020-7
It wasn't the case for the 4 year old I was trying DESPERATELY to find a PICU bed for- he died while I was spending hours on the phone with every hospital in my state trying to find an open bed for him. He was exactly three months from turning five.
It wasn't the case for a friend of mine from high school. She was in band with me, and had strong lungs and a strong immune system. She got COVID and recovered- but she suffered a common lasting problem with the virus, blood clots in her lungs, and she passed away at the age of 36.
So maybe for you, it might be a bad flu. For other people, it's literally life or death, so don't mock people scared for their loved ones and themselves.