'As they're being intubated, they still don't believe it.' The COVID denial won't die

[Nevilledog]

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“Even if we get a lull, and maybe the census goes down a little bit, it’s going to keep spiking all winter. And we know that, and it’s just exhausting to think about it.”

‘As they’re being intubated, they still don’t believe it.’ The COVID denial won’t die
One man walked out of a Kansas City hospital, still tethered to oxygen. And 12 hours later, he was on a ventilator in another emergency room. | Opinion from Michael Ryan
kansascity.com
10:10 PM · Aug 25, 2021

https://www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/michael-ryan/article253707348.html#storylink=cpy

Our friends in health care have seen plenty to impale the heart in this COVID-19 pandemic, but nothing more tragic than this: the sight of guilt-ridden young children who believe they’ve killed an unvaccinated parent by bringing the virus home.

“And as they’re dying, the kids are at the bedside apologizing,” a hospital nurse tells me.

“You’ve actually seen that?” I ask her.

“Multiple times,” says the nurse.

My Kansas City nurse friend, who can’t use her name because she isn’t authorized to speak to the media, occasionally shares this inconceivable, untold tragedy with dinner companions who obnoxiously insist on spouting their anti-vaccine views to her over burgers and beer.

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[Texaswitchy]

1. Put them into tent.

I couldn't deal with fools like this.

I went thru hell with both my parents health raise.

It took a toll on me.

PTSD.

I can more them appreciate what the medical personal are dealing with.

I was not upset when parents died.

It was a relieve.

Until you have been there you do not know.

[roamer65]

8. I'm there with my dad.

I understand.

[Texaswitchy]

10. I had both at one time.

My mother in the nursing home and my father at home.

I had to put up a emotional wall to survive.

These medical people will not be the same.

They will need help.

I got help and it made a difference.

[roamer65]

12. We brought in full time home health care.

Letting the paid people deal with it.

[Texaswitchy]

15. It is still hard.

That why my mother was in the nursing home.

Still then you have to go to the home and deal with things.

[roamer65]

16. Yup.

But at least I’m not being mentally abused now.

[Texaswitchy]

19. That is the hard part.

[Texaswitchy]

11. Talk to someone.

It helps to talk about it

[bedazzled]

28. I understand where you are coming from too

hope you can recover your strength. You are a wonderful child to help your parents when they needed you

[LetMyPeopleVote]

2. This literally should be a PSA blasted wall-to-wall in every state in the nation.

Link to tweet

[dalton99a]

6. +1

[LittleGirl]

7. Thanks for that link. most excellent. eom

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. Well, then. Don't intubate.

Save the medical care for those who appreciate it.

[Texaswitchy]

4. Yes.

Put them into a tent.

Keep the bed for somebody who appreciates the medical personal.

[Mr. Evil]

5. Yes. And are more deserving of it.

[roamer65]

9. Palliative care quarantine facilities.

Food, water, cot and enough morphine to make the passing easy.

[Texaswitchy]

13. Yes

Sounds right to me.

They want their freedom.

Be free in a tent.

[roamer65]

14. Basically a quarantined hospice.

Just like 1918-1920.

Soon we will see the mass graves.

[Texaswitchy]

17. My Grandfather saw that in WW1...

The guys called them death tents.

A few came out alive.

[Celerity]

36. free morphine as they shuffle off this mortal coil

They want their freedom.

[sop]

18. I used to think this couldn't be happening, that people couldn't possibly be so blind and stupid.

I tried reasoning with a couple of anti-vaxxers and was shocked when they protested their "concerns weren't being respected." I'm really tired of taking into account these people's concerns about the vaccine. Most of these imbeciles will never come around. Fuck them.

[Texaswitchy]

20. Yes

Can't reach them.

The virus will.

[tonedevil]

21. Sometimes you have to cull the heard...

sometimes the heard culls themselves.

[roamer65]

22. Any wagers on when the mass graves and mass cremations start to happen?

I say third week of October.

[progressoid]

23. Bodies stacked to the ceiling as COVID-19 surge creates backlog at Florida funeral homes, crematorie

https://www.wfla.com/community/health/coronavirus/bodies-stacked-to-the-ceiling-as-covid-19-surge-creates-backlog-at-florida-funeral-homes-crematories/amp/

WINTER GARDEN, Fla. (WESH) — At West Side Crematory in Winter Garden, they’re overwhelmed with the remains of people that need to be cremated.

There’s an influx of bodies like they’ve never seen, worse than the first wave of COVID-19. The area where bodies are stored prior to being cremated is stacked to the ceiling. The staff is working day and night to honor the dead.
Earache could be new emerging COVID-19 symptom, according to doctors

WESH 2 called 20 funeral homes and crematories and many were too busy to be part of our story. Some were too busy to even talk on the phone. One funeral director said that in a 30-minute period where he talked to his partner, four new cases came in.

Mike Marchetti, the area manager for Newcomer Funeral Homes, says as much as they don’t want to, sometimes they have to delay meetings with families and delay funerals because they only have so much staff.

[Texaswitchy]

24. I was watching news from India.

We are going the same way.

There were more bodies then could be burnt.

[roamer65]

25. ...

[Texaswitchy]

26. Captain Trips

What a book.

[GPV]

27. The Trips variant could show up

[ProfessorGAC]

38. I'll Take The Under

The biggest wave so far had us consistently over 200,000 cases a day, lasting around 6 weeks.
Related to that period, deaths were 3,500-4,200 per day. So, roughly one in every sixty cases resulted in death.
We've now been in this delta surge since mid July or more than 5 weeks. We're averaging over 150k cases per day, which is disappointingly high, given the availability of the vax, but deaths have not hit 1,000 per day. So, the case:death ratio is over 150. And, we're well past the death lag period for this wave.
And, thankfully the 7 day moving average line of cases is flattening some.
Now, in low vax areas, all bets are off. But, for the country as a whole, I don't see in the data the support for your prediction that makes me go with it.
Edit: forgot link.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

[JoanofArgh]

29. This is so sad.Kids are are being impacted

in numerous ways. They’ll feel guilt and blame themselves for their parents stupid decisions and some of them will end up on life support themselves.

[rockfordfile]

30. Then take the tube out. Let them beg for it

[Scrivener7]

31. That's something I don't think I realized until now. Most of the patients these days are hard core

anti-vaxx MAGAs. Those people really tend toward the abusive and belligerent and just unpleasant to be around.

And these medical people have to deal with that imbecility while they do everything they can to save these people's lives and health.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

39. They are mean and obnoxious entitled

Narcissists and sociopaths..let them die. All they cause is abuse,trauma and disease.

Let them die off.

Things will be better after as many of them as possible die

[lindysalsagal]

32. IMHO: If a covid+ patient walks out, no re-entry. Period. No science for you!

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

33. Stay as far away from Republicans as you possibly can.

The entire Republican party is a covid breeding farm. It's not just the MAGATS.

Follow strict protection protocols, even if you are triple vaxxed. It's just a matter of time before the QOP variant emerges.

[Texaswitchy]

34. Triple mask

The whole thing.

I am pissed off because none of this had to happen.

[lagomorph777]

35. Dinner companions?

Who has those anymore? Especially somebody on the front lines of the COVID battle?

[Irish_Dem]

37. Mother Nature is weeding out the ignorant, stubborn, irresponsible, acting-out humans.

These people are on a Darwinian path.