An Op-Ed in today's LA Times: Doctors Like Me Are Angry...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

About The New Covid Surge.

https://news.yahoo.com/op-ed-doctors-lot-anger-102055098.html?fr=yhssrp_catchall

Mark Morocco
Thu, August 12, 2021, 3:20 AM·6 min read

There was the muscled firefighter who said he was afraid of needles. And the newly pregnant patient who had worried that the vaccine would make her infertile. And the young man who had partied hard at a weekend bachelor getaway, then lied about his vaccination status to the check-in nurse when he turned up at the hospital.

Welcome to the new Pandemic of the Unvaccinated: the patients we love to hate.

Anger among front-line healthcare workers remains professionally hidden behind our masks and the oaths we swear to our patients and profession. We will continue to do our best for everyone who comes to the hospital. But that doesn’t stop the whispered grumbling outside exam rooms and in hallways as we gear up to care for our neighbors.

Again.

We are sick of this. You should be too.

We are back to indoor masking and six-foot distancing. Frustrated parents are having to cope with ever-changing back-to-school rules. Restaurateurs and airline and cruise ship executives hyperventilate while conservative governors posture and provoke.

And as our COVID culture wars drag on, the virus thrives, not caring whether you wear a trucker cap or knitted pussyhat.

There’s so much to be discouraged about — conspiracy theories, disinformation, Florida, Texas. But occasionally there’s also hope from unexpected quarters.


The rest at the link.

[Hortensis]

1. "The very sick, those headed into the ICU, look terrified. The "fake news" stories

no longer seem so fake. And those of us treating the sick get no pleasure from their new insights. Watching it dawn on COVID deniers that this is deadly serious business turns out not to be much fun."

[Merlot]

2. I'm not a doctor/nurse and I'm plenty angry. I can't begin to imagine what it must be like

to deal with this every day. I think of them often, wish I could help and am doing everything I can to stay out of their way.

[KS Toronado]

3. My thoughts exactly

[leftstreet]

4. They must also be really angry the CDC lifted the mask mandate

We needed a much higher vax percentage rate per capita

[Evolve Dammit]

5. I don't know how they continue. They are heros. I think I would have left the profession.

[Skittles]

7. a lot of them have

look at Texas, they had to recruit from out of state

[Evolve Dammit]

10. Critical care workers are taken for granted,with minimal compensation. Most do it to help others,

but I imagine with the recalcitrance of the anti-vaxxers, they are re-thinking their long-term commitment.

[Skittles]

14. honestly, I cannot imagine the anger, having to go through all this again

because some people are too stupid and too selfish to do event the simplest things to help end this pandemic

[Evolve Dammit]

15. I can't imagine either. It's hard to imagine just witnessing the events of the last 18 months.

[Mariana]

6. My mother in Florida can't get pain-relieving surgery

because of these unvaccinated fuckers clogging up the hospitals. Easy outpatient operation, remove a cyst that's pressing on a nerve, but it's not lifesaving surgery, so they won't schedule it. The neurosurgeon told her that in normal times, with her level of pain, he'd have her in within a week. He has no idea how long it will be before she can have it done.

Fuck them. I hope it hurts. I want them to suffer as much as my mother is suffering because of their stupidity.

[mcar]

12. This is the untold story, Mariana

I'm so sorry for your mother's pain.

[Mariana]

13. Thank you.

At least it's something that can be fixed, eventually - assuming it doesn't get worse, cause some permanent damage, and leave her debilitated for life.

[Skittles]

8. knowing how angry I am

I cannot even imagine what it is like for these folk having take care of these selfish assholes.

[Warpy]

9. I'd be very frustrated that the sticks hadn't been pulled out yet.

Maybe no that the USSC has ruled in favor of public health over individual stupidity, those sticks will start to come out. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rejects-challenge-indiana-university-s-vaccination-requirement-n1276714?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma

People have a right to be as stupid as they want, but there are things they need to do if they want to live with the rest of us, like obey speed limits, not shit on the floors, and get vaccinated.

If they want to live on roots, berries and acorns in the deep woods and never see anyone else, fine. They need the shots if they want to participate in life around other people.

If I were still working in the trenches, I'll bet I'd be barking at them now and then. I never did that during the AIDS epidemic. But then, we still don't have a preventive for that one. We do for this one.

Oh, and I'd love to see a whopping class action lawsuit against right wing media for thier part in promoting stupidity.

[mcar]

11. I'm hearing anectodally, that nurses are walking off the job

in large numbers. I'm having a hard time blaming them.

[Irish_Dem]

16. I've been assuming that this was going to happen again.

And with some suicides as well.