ICU nurse: "I really wish yall non healthcare folk understood the straight up apocalyptic vibe in.."

[Marthe48]

16. Is the only way to get back to normal is to stop treating the sick, unvaxxed people?

I hate to say that. In the First Opium War (China vs. Britain 1839-42),the British wanted a trade balance. Chinese products were so popular, that China was ahead in trade profit. So the British started growing opium in Bengal, to smuggle into China. China's population of addicts grew at an alarming rate. In order to stop opium addiction, the Chinese gov. instituted the death penalty for smugglers and traffikers. The British and the Chinese smugglers willingly sacrificed other humans for the almighty dollar. I thought this historic episode was horrible, ever since I first heard about it.

Is turning our collective backs on the sick and dying the way to go? I don't think so. But I bet we are headed that way. I wonder every time I see news like the OP or hear someone interviewed, how long they can hold up. I thought about the Chinese dr. who treated some of the first Covid-19 patients, and then, caught the virus and died. The world should have paid attention to that tragic story right then. And then the NY family who lost 8 loved ones to covid-19. We should have been taking it seriously. But no. We are here today, watching the numbers of infected and dying going up, up, up. In early 2020, when hospitals couldn't get gloves and masks, when we couldn't get hand sanitizer, when traitor siezed shipments of hazard gear and rednecks bought up all of the Dollar Tree hand sanitizer and tried to cash in on eBay, those were all great big red flags and we should have been treating Covid-19 the way we treated Ebola. But no. Here we are. Too many of the sick and dying recklessly ignored the danger. Too many of the so-called leaders continue to downplay the risk, opting for opening the economy over preserving human life. I'm pretty sure the rich and famous will get treatment, but as time goes on, I am afraid the health industry is going to opt out of treating the masses. We are a much poorer nation for the travails we are enduring.