i've learned more about the real on-the-ground ugliness of COVID from r/nursing than I've learned from any other source. Even the most unflinching media portrayals of what COVID does to the unvaccinated and the people who have to care for them leaves a lot out.
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for example last week i learned that a lot of nurses have had to deal with maggots in the intubated bodies of COVID patients, because anybody who has to be intubated for as long as many COVID patients do makes an attractive home for fly larvae, even when they're still alive
Nurses deserve a memorial in every goddamn state for the shit (figurative and literal) they have to deal with. US hospitals are a horror show.
But more importantly they deserve better wages and working conditions
They deserve chuds to be vaccinated and/or vaccinated in minecraft
Read that as mineshaft initially :pit:
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Residents too because they work like 80 hour weeks often making less than nurses while having to pay off hundreds of thousands in student loans.