@ClimateDefiance
"Why does this keep happening?"
Overshoot.
"How many more people must die?"
The carrying capacity of the planet before we fucked it up was ~35 million humans. Now 97% of the planet is degraded on some way or other by human activity. You can do the maths from here.
Holy fucking shit…I just saw the first doctor wearing an N95, properly and consistently on my unit. He’s new to our unit so I approached him with “so, are you wearing a mask because we’re in a pandemic?” He said yes. He wears it with all patients and in the hospital.
Today and last night we had 4 fetal demise. IUFD. MD believes cause of three due to complications from acquiring covid. Same MD said they haven’t seen as many in their 25yr career. I’m feeling helpless today.
I’m no longer permitted to place a tiny sign on my office door that requests for mask wearing to enter due to (none of their fucking business) immunocompromised dependent.
Mask wearing and my feelings evolution.
Solidarity masking 2020
Won’t stop masking 2021
Don’t make eye contact masking 2022
Fuck it, I’m masking 2023
Going into 2024 like I’m the fucking GOAT.
I wear this bitch with pride ✊🏽
My gawd!!! Just avoid the hospital at all cost. Unless it’s a medical emergency. Utilize telemedicine if you can. I’m sorry people. There is no worse. If we are not masking with newborns there is no ceiling.
This is how my unit gets infected.
While working, a masked HCW visits our unit. I offer an Aura N95 and tell him he might find it more comfortable than his not-too-baggy blue.
Him: Is there covid here
Me: It’s everywhere right
Him: yeah I guess so
Minutes later…..
To be clear, it is the healthcare workers like her that are giving my hospitalized patients covid. But then again, no one masks on our rawdogging unit.
I’m about to lose my mind. I came into work today to find out I’m the ONLY RN this week who has not called off.
I’m the ONLY RN on my unit.
Shocking, our director just informed us we’re having a “national” shortage crisis.
We’re in a pandemic, it’s covid! FUCK
Overheard a coworker talking.
“I have a headache, and I’ll admit, I had covid last week. I went to my sister’s 4000 attendee reunion in Orlando and lots of people are getting sick.”
When you share you care.
4 of 6 nurses called out today.
Management scrambling to get coverage.
The unit cannot accept new patients.
I have the solution but no one listens.
Wear a fucking mask all the fucking time when not with your fucking housemates.
Fuck why is this so hard to get?
I’m surprised I didn’t quit today. I’m not sure how you all have dealt with maskholes in the work place for 976 days. Fuuuuck. It’s only been 2 weeks and I’m literally losing my mind.
It’s a fucking hospital in a fucking pandemic and fucking babies and other humans.
@LauraMiers
today is my saddest day of the pandemic. Our large Tampa hospital system has dropped mask mandates for all HCW and visitors. We (HCW) are only required to wear a mask when we enter the patient’s room. There is not enough Zoloft or Valium to undo the despair.
Why can’t we just tell our friends “we’re currently in a pandemic which has not stopped, has not slowed down and is not being addressed by public health and government officials” and have them believe and trust us, the same way they believed and trusted us prior to the pandemic?
7 more covid positive patients on my unit all from the same outbreak starting over a week ago. I cannot believe I’m watching this unfold irl and not via the big screen featuring Hoffman, Sutherland, Freeman or Damon.
Still not admitting pts. Only discharge or sent to covid unit.
Somebody tell we’re not the delusional ones. Please.
No masks today at Target. Maybe 10 at the grocery store.
Curious what percentage of the population is actually pandemically aware and wisely cautious.
My patient’s adult son was masked AND began a conversation about the wastewater AND I about pinched myself to wake up from a dream.
I needed this today. The reality we live in is isolating. This was much needed validation.
WE ARE RIGHT!!!
Everyone else is wrong!!!
Btw I stayed masked while I spoke and there was nothing preventing people from hearing me. Just like we did in 2019 and back, we keep masks on when talking in surgery, in TB patient rooms, in any isolation area when talking. Giving a speech or lecture is no different. 👍🏽
I am so alone.
The Cassandra effect sux ass.
These are just facts.
We’re in a pandemic during an ecological collapse which will propel authoritarian control and destroy civilizations.
This is what got everyone’s panties in a tizzy? That’s funny, not funny. Medical professionals are not trained in physics. Covid is airborne. The people in charge have them believing covid listens when we tell it to stay over there. We’re all drinking the koolaid.
I was asked to take a patient today because the assigned nurse is 7 months pregnant.
The assigned nurse raw dogs it at work and outside of work.
The patient is confirmed SARS2+
She’ll see all the unconfirmed patients raw dog style.
WE DON’T TEST EVERY PATIENT
I think I might start a thread about the dumb shit going down in the hospital. I just need a good name…
Meanwhile, our unit is getting sick again AND NOBODY EVEN CORROBORATES IT WITH THE FUCKING RAGING PANDEMIC.
Patient A-vomiting
Patient B-diarrhea
Patient C-fever
D-cough
Omg…this weekend I sent messages to 23 people in my area asking who wants to get together to make new pandemic cautious friendships 😎 So far 3 have responded. I’m unbelievably happy to even have one local cautious friend.
#covidmeetups
@jvipondmd
I’ve worn n95 with both covid positive patients and negative. I have not gotten covid. I did however get covid in March 2020 when my hospital would not let us wear masks because it may scare the patients.
@germanfrancie
Agreed. However it’s no better anywhere else as masking has all but ceased in this town, state, country. The insult to injury was her telling me it’s not a company approved sign. Meanwhile she has a handwritten “in a meeting” sign on her door.
I’m fed up by the blatant disregard for our patients, our staff and all their families.
I mentioned we had another round of sick patients last week. Several were actually tested(mind blowing), and came back POSITIVE.
Did administrators
-notify staff NO
-notify visitors NO
Guess what? Nobody has any idea how this could happen. It will keep happening. My guess is n the third round they’ll take notice.
Several staff were sick and a few tested positive. The rest just had sniffles or a cough so they kept working unmasked. One by one the pts got sick.
Are we infecting patients in the hospital? Yes
Are we infecting staff in the hospital? Yes
Are we infecting visitors in the hospital? Yes
Then we send them all home to infect the rest.
Repeat.
@CapeQueen75
This weekly heartbreak can’t even be escaped. Oncology and Pediatrics we’re supposed to be the hold outs. I have nowhere safe to work as a bedside nurse 👩🏽⚕️
Fun fact, the VA and insurance owned medical office mills still require masking.
I wonder what they know?
@LazarusLong13
Staff meeting this week at the hospital. Management told us we “can’t make the visitors mask, we’re not masking police.” It’s a hospital. Yes. Yes. We should all be masking police. Wonder if they’ll feel the same with smoking in the elevator?
@thatotherkaren
And there in lies the rub. With the guidance from cdc and osha the hospital is not at fault for employees getting infected with SARS2. No liability. 🤷🏽♀️
The anxiety brought on by the mass delusion event has finally come for me. At my workplace. In my hospital. I am not overreacting but only my immediate family and my tweeps understand. This is how they will get the last of us to succumb.
13/ If you have a fold-style N95 mask or KN95 mask, you need to work the nose wire to get a proper seal. It comes out of the package with a v-shape in the nose wire.
@vegafallingstar
Lol. I’m a black woman in a very white hospital in a red state. Ungovernable is not an option.
It just fucking sucks and it’s a hospital and she herself has some ‘non hospital issued signage’.
I wish I was a blond haired, blue eyed woman named Jenny.
My BFF told me today she had mild shingles, mild covid a few times and mild smelling loss. She also told me 2 mutual friends had mild severe month long covid illness with their own mild smelling loss. I was not able to get through to her today. I’ll try again in 6 months.
@Debs_Kropotkin
The same thing happened to me in Tampa Bay Fl. I’m in healthcare. I have tools to advocate for myself. 5th Dr/derm agreed my rash did not fit normal skin lesion profile. Dept of Health refused my doctor’s request for testing. Btw, Dr
#3
refused to see me for fear of their own kid.
@drdjbarbarella
Please yell at the idiots that work and manage maternity, NICU and pediatrics to wear masks in the patient’s rooms.
I just can’t believe this is so difficult for them to comprehend. Even pregnant nurses are unmasked.
Early pandemic, I used to have such high anxiety going into a patient’s room with known Covid infection. Fast forward a few months into the pandemic, and I was already treating every patient as if they were Covid positive; I could already see we were failing.
@ColinDotNet
@DFisman
This happened at my hospital. Yep.
H O S P I T A L
Literally the Chief Medical Officer says if we are seated and 6 feet apart we can take off our mask in a meeting room.
@ann_mcnitt
The best way for us to teach them is by wearing and modeling it ourselves. I would’ve needed a whole different PowerPoint to teach ‘why’. Our hospital system is pumping out info about not needing them and downplaying covid risk. Today I was teaching about feeding babies.
@NorahMa20412961
@sri_srikrishna
Yes yes yes. I have had a Hepa air cleaner in my office for over two years. Specifically for the times when a coworker would come in and remove their mask to talk 🥺 Even though the air is superbly filtered and ventilated via hospital hvac system. Can’t have too much protection.
@trailrunner402
@germanfrancie
I’m on it. Monday morning I’ll get necessary documents from doctors (again, this shouldn’t be needed in a pandemic in a hospital). 🙏🏽
My hospital has systematically disappeared COVID from the hospital. < 5 ppl in main floor wearing surgical masks and still no signs or patient education posted. They have disappeared covid from our work stations and effectively convinced all my coworkers “it’s no big deal”.
What? Me? Okay yes I’m guilty, walked around my unit at the hospital checking Co2 with my Aranet4.
Nope, not an engineer; just a mom, daughter, sister, friend, girlfriend and nurse. Surprised everything had a reading of 709 and less?
Typing this on my lunch break in my car.
@sarahksojourner
I simply want to warn people.
It’s not safe for patients. The staff are constantly fed a stream of propaganda that the pandemic ended, case levels are low (green) and surgical masks are appropriate for a covid outbreak. I cannot find the word COVID at work.
It’s a hospital 🏥
And another positive patient.
Our unit, our hospital, our institutions are in serious trouble.
A few nurses masking with surgicals only to remove them in the nurse station and when OFF our unit.
NOBODY UNDERSTANDS HOW THIS SPREADS.
They don’t even know what the symptoms are.
Just a quick check in.
WE ARE NOT THE CRAZY ONES, right?
I swear, if you happen to also be someone who ‘must’ interact with live humans regularly, you know what I mean. No one masks. WTAF.
0.1% isn’t even a whole human.
I frequently feel bad for anyone wearing a surgical mask, i.e. bus drivers, food service, cashiers and others who need to be public facing for work. They were left to fend for themselves, provided subpar protection, and probably keep getting sick but not sure why 😞
This is not where I want to spend the end of days.
AVOID medical facilities, hospitals and other services if you can.
I’m telling my family if I pass out for any reason…Please don’t call EMS. Just leave me. I’d hate to wake up in a hospital bed, unmasked.
~Always wearing N95
Listen folks. We have really failed our children. Today we admitted our youngest Covid+ patient. They are 10 days old. They were exposed by family members. I need to cry and go home to hide under the covers today. I can’t though. Because we also have 8 new Covid+ deliveries.
@WestcoastBCLife
Kind regards. If this is the calm before the storm than I should take a Twitter leave of absence and practice some escapism for the next few weeks. Family. Netflix. Chill.
@momstinfoilhat
@alinastarshine7
I went to my ENT for an initial swallowing assessment, a year ago. Me in my N95 and ENT with a shit eating grin, refused to wear a mask and told me “well then it looks like there’s nothing I can do for you today.”
@curiousdatacat
@LauraMiers
What is the endgame? Huge market crash when unsuspecting customers cannot keep up loan payments? My salary did not go up 25%. It went up 2%. T W O. Percent.
I have to complain…what’s new.
Apparently we (hospital HCW) are not productive enough to make the hospital money when we are staffed at safe patient case loads. A shift that required 4 nurses and 4 techs will get 2 nurses and 2 techs.
Twice as much work. Patient safety - zero
@lisatropolis
I have only had nurses or techs ask me to remove my mask. Oddly never a patient, not even tRumper.
Not sure what the obsession with seeing my mouth is.
@vintageGardnGrl
Or black women. Or strong black women. Or successful strong black women.
I shouldn’t need a sign for people to wear a mask in MY office in a pandemic when they enter. Insert so many fucking curse words here ____________________________________________________
This statement here is the one that hurts the most. We exposed EVERY SINGLE BABY to SARSCOV2 beginning in 2021. Including the NICU, PICU, pediatric, maternity.
We refers to the very large hospital system in Tampa Bay but it’s probably fair to say the same if most US hospitals 🏥
Our children have not consented to our policy of mass repeat infection, but it is our children who will bear the costs of mass long-term health problems
@tbplante
I have been intensifying my first aid kit to include suture kit, some tactical blood clotting agents, 3M skin adhesive and a practice kit to learn how to do all of the above. This is next level horrendous. My RN skills do not require any of the above.
@Michael59503746
@alexmeshkin
That’s been my question too. How is a 3 month old suffering from 3 viral infections related to lockdown (that didn’t actually happen in Florida for more that 6 weeks in March and April 2020)
@Michael59503746
I stopped following or muted hotez when he came to Tampa Bay for a conference at a children’s hospital and I saw he was maskless…2021. I’m so done with denialist and ableist dragging this pandemic on.
@PeteUK7
I’m a pandemic cautious woman. I was telling a friend earlier that the only way I’d ever eat indoors again was if a covid conscious restaurant existed.
@CIDRAP
We keep exposing every human born in the hospital. There are no hospital units wear all HCW and visitors wear N95 masks around newborns. Not one. Also, we never tested our hospital employees. It’s always been self report symptoms.
@1goodtern
@rkaviate
A patient called me this week, self reporting sinus infection. Wanted to find out which meds were safe while breastfeeding. Asked what her dr suggested…hasn’t called them yet.
Maybe not a sinus infection 🤦🏽♀️
@Debs_Kropotkin
It is. Two ER docs, two dermatologists and one PCP had no knowledge of monkeypox and it’s varied presentations. Also our hospital has not issued any guidance yet for HCWs. Our unit physical therapist thought it was only spread in LGBTQ+ community so no longer concerned. Be safe
My friend just wrote me this, “Your soul is dyed by the color of its thoughts. You feel alone because you so often think such dark and lonely thoughts.”
That’s just it. Reality is dark and it’s lonely here. These are not thoughts, this is the painful reality most can’t tolerate.
If I knew I’d have so many idiots respond I would’ve added the following disclaimer. So here goes.
To all who do not benefit from my messages please violently go fuck yourself.