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Not sure asking them to assist in patient care would be helpful or productive. Their job is already hard enough right now without having to endure untrained, ill-informed, and -- most likely -- Delta Variant carriers into a clinical setting.
Point taken that they're overwhelmed with the patient load. Especially here in FloriDUH! (I live in Jax, and all our hospitals are full, to the point where they're turning away patients who have serious, urgent, non-COVID conditions).
With these near-battlefield conditions, licensed, experienced health care providers should institute combat "triage" and other safeguards. Re-open the sanitoriums that were so prevalent as TB swept the country a century ago. Sequester the un-vaxed patients to those facilities, so that health care delivery to responsible, intelligent patients can continue. If family members object, tell them they have made their choices. They now get to live with the consequences of those decisions.
