I think this video has done me in.

[WhiteTara]

I don't understand why people are hell bent on getting this illness.

Link to tweet

[Blue Dawn]

1. I think every unvaccinated person should be required to see this.

Maybe such stark reality would make an impact.

I got chills watching this.

Thank you for sharing it.

[Tadpole Raisin]

2. OMG! I couldn't do what these angel nurses and doctors are doing

To save lives day in and day out.

Heart wrenching!!

[MagickMuffin]

3. A cacophony of death alerts

That would drive me crazy. Even being around just one of those machines makes me crazy. To have a whole symphony of them would drive me over the edge.

[PortTack]

4. As a retired ER nurse, I've seen a lot..nothing compare to what these nurses are dealing with

My heart goes out to them!

[wryter2000]

5. Jesus

We are going to lose a whole generation of nurses, and no one will want to replace them.

[lambchopp59]

6. This is why I'm on a semi-retirement break

Total burnout.
In 32 years of doing CT/Xray I've never seen lungs as completely obliterated, so quickly. I've never seen entire MD, nursing and ancillary staffs at two hospitals so frustrated.
Nor have I been as utterly disgusted with these damned anti-vaxxers--- sure, when a potential medical calamity happens the foremost advice to follow is that of a favorite political pundit. Cheezus crackers.
My BP went totally out of control reminding outpatients and visitors to "please put your mask back on properly sir", to get angry, adolescent level pseudoscience arguments, and physically assaulted twice.
Both myself and one of the senior ICU nurses I know of have gone on sanity leave, that gets yet a bit compromised by the pig-ignorant likes of Tucker Carlson, and his sheeple that heckle wearing masks in stores.
I'll return to the front lines in just a little over a month from now, hoping a bit more serious reality has sunk in to thick skulls.

[NJCher]

7. It must be horrible

to have your career interrupted and temporarily ruined for something like this.

It would be one thing if there were no option, but there is an option and they are not choosing it.

My hat's off to you for going back.

[Hortensis]

8. Hope it has too, Lambchopp. Seems very possible that reality

will have sunk in for more, and that you'll be terribly busy.

Enjoy your month. Think of the future most really do want and need to be making. Don't let politics spoil it.

[wnylib]

9. I heard that alert beep in a hospital

once. I was the one producing it.

I'd just had surgery and was in the post op monitoring room, hooked up to various monitors, and in a vague, semi-conscious state.

I heard my first and last name called out so sharply that it cut through my post op fog. Then the voice barked a command at me twice to "Cough and breathe!" I made an effort that I thought was good but apparently was feeble because the voice snapped my name again and ordered me to cough and breathe. It added this, "Do you hear that? That's YOU!" I heard a loud beeping, coughed harder and took a breath. The beeping stopped just as I got a peripheral glimpse of a nurse reaching my bedside.

Due to asthma and multiple allergies I have chronic chest congestion. I also have a hiatal hernia so that, when alert and awake, I cough to clear ny throat when necessary. Apparently, lying sedated on my back caused the congestion to block my airway.

I was able to respond. Imagine the frustration of nurses who can do nothing to improve their patients' ability to breathe. No sharp command, no reaction on their part will make a difference or stop the alert from beeping.

[Rebl2]

10. I find

this to be a powerful message

[roamer65]

11. Waste of ICU resources.

Send them to palliative care quarantine facilities.

Food, water, cot and morphine to make the passing easier.

Nothing more.

[Pepsidog]

12. There must be accountability starting with Fox. We need a reckoning commission.

[Woodwizard]

13. I have a few on my wife's side.

That still think it is overblown, more than likely one of them will be dead within a few months with the co morbidity they have. I am exhausted and burned out from these people. Maybe the death of one will motivate the others to get vaccinated but I doubt it, stubborn stupidity is strong in them.

[ShazzieB]

14. I was afraid to watch this at first.

Spoiler alert: This post is for anyone else who might wondering whether to watch. Don't read this if you haven't watched yet and don't Iike "spoilers."

I was afraid to watch, because I couldn't tell what it was going to show or if it would exceed my personal tolerance for certain kinds of images. We all have our own individual triggers and our own individual thresholds of what we can handle, and I know mine are lower than some. So sue me. It's how I'm wired.

I can tolerate a lot of things a lot better if I know what's coming, but when I see a phrase like "gut-wrenching," my panic reflexes kick in, rather like a phobia reaction. In this case, I read all the comments with my pulse racing, all sorts of terrifying images flying through my head. (The imagination has a "mind" of its own.)

Finally, my curiosity got the better of me. I looked at the image of a tight closeup of a woman's face and decided to start watching, ready to stop the video at any moment if necessary. Here is what I saw...

***SPOILERS START HERE***

To my relief, the only visuals, besides the woman talking at the beginning, are words on a black background, interspersed with completely black screens. Besides the woman talking, all you here is the beeping of an alarm. The video carries a powerful message, and the beeping of the alarm is hard to listen to, but easy to silence. (I had to turn off the sound myself, because it was freaking my cat out. 😄 But there are NO graphic images of any kind, and I had no trouble watching it. The video carries a powerful message, but the viewer is not confronted with any horrifying images.

As I said before, we all have our own individual triggers and thresholds. Some of us approach certain kinds of "scary" material with a lot of trepidation, because we know how such things affect us. If anyone reading this is trying to decide whether or not this video is "safe" for them to watch, I hope this information will be helpful.

[Irish_Dem]

15. Thank you Shazzie. I was not sure if I could watch it.

I am about at my limit on horrific news.