All those months I wore a mask with concern
about myself and others. Then we got vaccine and felt better about being out in the world more. Even went to stores without a mask for awhile. Now, I wear a mask in stores again. We have cancelled a trip to see family in another state. We have quit going to restaurants.
So now I wear a mask with concern for myself and others and ALSO WITH ANGER.
I SHALL NOT FORGET OR FORGIVE IGNORANCE.
I believe if my husband and I were still hospital RNs, we would walk out. I do not judge anyone who does. This is intolerable.
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You might consider offering your services to the Democratic National Committee....
Response to TNNurse (Original post)
I'm retired and only shop about once per week. However I'm in solidarity with the store employees who must wear masks. I'll bet it really frosts them to see customers strolling through the doors without masks. But employees can't say anything because they need their jobs.
Luckily in Pittsburgh we have a lot of liberal-thinking citizens - we're vaccinated but most are still wearing masks. I hope it stays that way for a while.
Simple as that.
They are letting their constituents die for a political argument.
The Rethuglican Party is a Murder Cult.
I lost a close friend to the virus in late January, before the vax became available. His death may or may not have been avoidable. We'll never know...
Once I got my Moderna jabs and the CDC lowered mask recommendation, I, too, felt almost liberated: no masks outdoors or in stores and restaurants. Of course, medical offices still mandated masks, but that was understandable and tolerable because EVERYBODY there had to mask up.
So, now, as the Delta Variant spreads like wildfire, I've just lost my next-door neighbor. He got jabbed back in February, so he did not succumb to the virus, per se. After fracturing his pelvis, the hospital refused to admit him, sending him home. A week later, he returned to the ER. A week that was full of pain and despair: he could eat, if someone spoon fed him; he could not move from his bed to a chair or even the bathroom. So back to the ER. This time, they actually ran a CT scan and found the fracture.
But instead of admitting him, they packed him off to a nursing home. Which is where he died just a few short days later.
Meanwhile, the streets, stores, restaurants, bars and even pro-football games are packing them in here in Jacksonville FL. Almost no one masked, despite the low vax rate here. I regard all these anti-vax and anti-mask morons with total contempt. They might survive, but they're putting others -- many, many others -- at risk. While the hospitals run out of beds and the staff are burning out.
I wish the medical centers would better triage patients:
- Anti-vaxers and Anti-maskers with COVID symptoms get sent to a field hospital where they'll receive paliative care. And no more;
- Save the ICU beds and limited resources for children, vaxxed people showing signs of breakthrough Delta infections, other urgent care needs.
Maybe that would get the point across.
To the anti-vaxers, anti-maskers, I have one thing to say:
You made your bed, now die in it!
Works for me!
Response to TNNurse (Original post)
Response to BumRushDaShow (Reply #40)
my feeling exactly
