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Vivienne235729

(3,383 posts)
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 06:15 PM Mar 2020

How the fuck can a healthcare worker making their own masks defend Trump?!!?!!

I just lost my shit arguing w a nurse that Trump is completely incompetent. She says "it's a very tough job and I don't know what he's going through. Poor trump. His job is hell right now.". I told her, his job is hell bc he created that hell w his stupidity and incompetence. The fact that we are even making our own masks is a tribute to the gross negligence of our leadership. Smdh. Honest to god. How can people be so damn stupid.

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How the fuck can a healthcare worker making their own masks defend Trump?!!?!! (Original Post) Vivienne235729 Mar 2020 OP
The really scary part is she's a nurse. Phoenix61 Mar 2020 #1
There are some really stupid people at ALL levels! It's always shocking to see Vivienne235729 Mar 2020 #9
Someone has to graduate AirmensMom Mar 2020 #28
+1 Phoenix61 Mar 2020 #31
She's probably Evangelical Christian. demosincebirth Mar 2020 #32
She probably went all in with the Medical Industry (wealthcare) renaming patients to 'clients' WyattKansas Mar 2020 #2
Being a Trump supporter is the true litmus test - Under The Radar Mar 2020 #3
I don't think you want to see the results of that poll. Most people I know in healthcare are Republi Vivienne235729 Mar 2020 #5
My wife is a LPN completely Apolitical - didn't care Under The Radar Mar 2020 #10
I wonder why your wife sees it and some of these nurses don't? Vivienne235729 Mar 2020 #14
At first it was the test, her clinic just received test kits ... Under The Radar Mar 2020 #19
I am now being told Trump was right in 2011 there about saying things need to be made in America LizBeth Mar 2020 #4
Yes! That's what started all this. I told them s. Korea didn't contain the viris Vivienne235729 Mar 2020 #7
And they immediately tested thousands upon thousands, not just the old and rich. LizBeth Mar 2020 #11
Exactly. Look at their "curve". It's a flat line. Vivienne235729 Mar 2020 #21
They tested everyone even without symptoms Under The Radar Mar 2020 #20
Yes!! And that's the thing I don't understand. They don't want to test anyone Vivienne235729 Mar 2020 #22
Thats what he is supposed to be able to do, deal with a hell job and do it well. Eko Mar 2020 #6
This defend at all cost is blowing ny nind. I wonder if they will feel this way Vivienne235729 Mar 2020 #12
I've been a nurse since the late 80s. I can't explain it. I have met many republican nurses mucifer Mar 2020 #8
I know a couple Republican nurses too and they fit a mold. All are white Vivienne235729 Mar 2020 #15
Ding ding ding! Dem2theMax Mar 2020 #25
They probably come from families that have always voted Republican. It's part of their tblue37 Mar 2020 #30
I'll never understand the logic of a Republican? They are a different breed. I used to think walkingman Mar 2020 #13
Ignorance can be cured, UpInArms Mar 2020 #16
if they weren't, trump would not have never won in the first place AlexSFCA Mar 2020 #17
Very true. Vivienne235729 Mar 2020 #18
I doubt any of us will be able to be polite to them anymore. Dem2theMax Mar 2020 #23
Stupid? Mentally handicapped? BigDemVoter Mar 2020 #24
She's a nurse. So stupid can't be her excuse. Something he is selling appeals to her. Joinfortmill Mar 2020 #26
Willful blindness is how. People like that want to be told what to do and what is right and what is cstanleytech Mar 2020 #27
Hard to comprehend Meowmee Mar 2020 #29
Is this someone you know personally or from online? nt live love laugh Mar 2020 #33

Vivienne235729

(3,383 posts)
9. There are some really stupid people at ALL levels! It's always shocking to see
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 06:36 PM
Mar 2020

I can say this bc I AM a nurse.

WyattKansas

(1,648 posts)
2. She probably went all in with the Medical Industry (wealthcare) renaming patients to 'clients'
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 06:21 PM
Mar 2020

Republican Rules of Acquisition... There are no profits from patients, but there are profits from clients.

Under The Radar

(3,401 posts)
3. Being a Trump supporter is the true litmus test -
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 06:25 PM
Mar 2020

Automatically disqualified from the healthcare profession if you still can’t see how bad this is being managed with the worst yet to come.
It doesn’t take much of a brain to see what this crisis has exposed about this fraud. Especially if you have to literally risk your own health, and their defense in normal everyday protective equipment is not available.
I would like to see an approval rating poll taken from Healthcare professionals only.

Vivienne235729

(3,383 posts)
5. I don't think you want to see the results of that poll. Most people I know in healthcare are Republi
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 06:32 PM
Mar 2020

But when you're making your own masks, you would think it would spark something in their brain that, maybe, just maybe, something is wrong. They are about to get their asses handed to them and they don't know it yet. Medical supplies from the national stockpile just arrived in AZ. I'm sure they're not giving it to us bc the ran out if storage room. Shit is about to hit the fan here.

Under The Radar

(3,401 posts)
10. My wife is a LPN completely Apolitical - didn't care
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 06:38 PM
Mar 2020

She hates for me to bring up the subject of politics as much as I hate her conversations on bra sizes for women over 50....Until this week with the unavailability of all supplies, she is flipping pissed and watching the Whitehouse press briefings and sees the obvious lies.
After many years of trying, I have help to convert one....my kids are next

Vivienne235729

(3,383 posts)
14. I wonder why your wife sees it and some of these nurses don't?
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 06:45 PM
Mar 2020

What was it about the press briefings that ticked her off? I mean, I know WHY but I am curious as why for her. What exactly it is that made the light bulb go off?

Under The Radar

(3,401 posts)
19. At first it was the test, her clinic just received test kits ...
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 07:10 PM
Mar 2020

...on Wednesday, Trump has promised 10 days ago that anyone wanting a test could get one. They Test 10 people on Wednesday and by Friday had 3 positive results.
She sees the difference in opinion between Trump and Dr. Fauci, she says that it is obvious who is telling the truth.
She even said that a person that speaks truth from the heart doesn’t need to read from a script, as she sees Trump do poorly.
My favorite came yesterday when she said that any man with a comb-over is lying about their baldness, is simply a liar.
We are in a Red State, so the truth is hard to come by. But not getting the test, then the positives really opened her up.

LizBeth

(9,952 posts)
4. I am now being told Trump was right in 2011 there about saying things need to be made in America
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 06:27 PM
Mar 2020

And the shortage is all the fault of us not having our stuff made here. Now, he wanted to blame Obama, but my thought is the corporations going over seas, which align Republican.

Vivienne235729

(3,383 posts)
7. Yes! That's what started all this. I told them s. Korea didn't contain the viris
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 06:34 PM
Mar 2020

Bc they had supplies made from s. Korea. They contained it bc they had an infrastructure and competent people at the top to helm the ship. We have an orange turd who can't even spell containment. God help us.

Under The Radar

(3,401 posts)
20. They tested everyone even without symptoms
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 07:18 PM
Mar 2020

They were testing and isolated the positives very early, they were doing 15,000 test a day before we tested even 1000.

Vivienne235729

(3,383 posts)
22. Yes!! And that's the thing I don't understand. They don't want to test anyone
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 07:59 PM
Mar 2020

That doesn't have a fever. But only 20-40% have fevers?

Eko

(7,281 posts)
6. Thats what he is supposed to be able to do, deal with a hell job and do it well.
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 06:33 PM
Mar 2020

When did we decide the president could be incompetent? Not us here at Du of course, just these magat jerkoffs.

Vivienne235729

(3,383 posts)
12. This defend at all cost is blowing ny nind. I wonder if they will feel this way
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 06:41 PM
Mar 2020

When one of their loved die bc of this corona virus.

mucifer

(23,525 posts)
8. I've been a nurse since the late 80s. I can't explain it. I have met many republican nurses
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 06:35 PM
Mar 2020

who are amazing human beings. I don't get it. Most nurses I know are liberal dems. But, i have met a few that really care for their patients that are republican.

Dem2theMax

(9,650 posts)
25. Ding ding ding!
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 09:07 PM
Mar 2020

You just described the woman who lives across the street from me. Retired emergency room nurse, although she keeps her license current with continuing education. All they watch is Faux. She said the rest of the country is over-blowing the whole situation.

tblue37

(65,300 posts)
30. They probably come from families that have always voted Republican. It's part of their
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 09:47 PM
Mar 2020

identity, so they don't question it.

walkingman

(7,593 posts)
13. I'll never understand the logic of a Republican? They are a different breed. I used to think
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 06:44 PM
Mar 2020

it was probably a genetic issue but I have a brother and sister who suffer the same disease?

AlexSFCA

(6,137 posts)
17. if they weren't, trump would not have never won in the first place
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 06:55 PM
Mar 2020

rush limb has been spreading covid-19 disinfo for weeks but he got presidential medal of freedom.

Dem2theMax

(9,650 posts)
23. I doubt any of us will be able to be polite to them anymore.
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 09:04 PM
Mar 2020

I live alone. I'm sitting in my house, yelling at the TV, yelling at my phone, at every stupid thing he's doing. He's killing all of us. How in the hell are they not getting it?

cstanleytech

(26,280 posts)
27. Willful blindness is how. People like that want to be told what to do and what is right and what is
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 09:12 PM
Mar 2020

wrong as so they are willing to blind themselves for someone that seems like they know what they are doing and the Republican party has been exploiting that for decades to gain more and more power.
Hell yesterday in the checkout line at a major grocery store one of the managers was working the register and we got to talking for a minute about the virus and he said we had nothing to worry about because it was all still contained in Wuhan.
I had to break it to the moron that it was already here in the United States and he didn't believe me.

Meowmee

(5,164 posts)
29. Hard to comprehend
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 09:32 PM
Mar 2020

But then not all people in medicine are the best. A doc who became a friend later who was R I think, did not understand a crucial point of one of my conditions, and the same goes for many others. I have seen a lot. More recently one of my fur babes was sent home with contagious bodily secretions all over after lying to me about cleaning.

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