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mindlessflight ([personal profile] mindlessflight) wrote in [community profile] anonrerising2020-06-23 12:36 am
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TLDR: Why.

(Anonymous) 2020-07-13 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Co-workers around me keep getting scares all the time and continue to go to work like dumbasses. The person i work closest with had one of their family members nearly directly exposed to Covid and yet they STILL came to work despite feeling unwell. They were sent home and weren't allowed to come back until they tested negative. They did, fortunately.

Very few people are actually wearing their mask properly (not covering their nose, taking it off to talk, taking it off at any point not outside). Karens keep bitching about long waits and out of stock product like we aren't short staffed AND short-supplied. People keep taking their children and infants into stores like it's not a big deal. If it weren't for mandatory masks, I'd swear that over half of them wouldn't be wearing one at all.

My friends have had a couple of scares in being in contact with people who are in direct contact, but they've been fine it seems. They're being careful and sensible. My family, on the other hand, is a bunch of dumbasses who're off having bbqs and family gatherings like none of the older folks are at risk of dying from it in a very small and crowded house despite a scare they had a week before. They're upset my household won't go, but everyone in it is exposed to hundreds of people daily. Why. Just...Why.

We're literally one of the worst hot spots for Covid in the US and they're talking about opening schools again... Ha. No.

All in all...I'm actually handling this a lot better than I would if all of this had happened last year. It's the stress of other people being so reckless and stupid really makes me wish I could be the one to be stuck in my house for two weeks and be away from people without losing my job.

In a Nutshell: Wear the damn masks, don't yell at the essential workers, be patient, wash and sanitize your hands whenever you enter/leave a place of business, stay home if you can, and don't listen to the nutjobs that are saying Covid's a conspiracy crafted by the government. It's not. Please. Thank you for reading my rant and thank you OP for asking. Stay safe and healthy.

Re: TLDR: Why.

(Anonymous) 2020-07-17 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
must suck living in fear constantly from the flu

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(Anonymous) 2020-07-18 05:42 am (UTC)(link)
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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(Anonymous) 2020-07-18 03:14 pm (UTC)(link)
a flu that has already killed one of my relatives
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