One nurse's take on: How It Started vs How It's Going 😢

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kathedrals🇺🇸
@kathryniveyy
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Nov 22, 2020
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kathedrals🇺🇸
@kathryniveyy
I love being a nurse. Didn't exactly expect to be a new nurse in the middle of a highly politicized pandemic but life comes at you fast and even in a pandemic, there's nothing else I want to do. Caring for the sickest of the sick is an honor and I treasure my patients.

It is devastating to watch people die when those deaths were avoidable and it's even more devastating when you watch them die the same way, time after time after time. It's devastating that basic common sense and decency has been politicized.

Covid is a brutal disease and I wouldn't wish the worst of it on my worst enemy. Please understand that you aren't just protecting yourself, you are protecting the people around you.

[DonaldsRump]

1. She's a genuine superhero

[DENVERPOPS]

4. As are all

the frontline health workers, bless each and everyone of them...........

[magicarpet]

2. Too selfish and too stupid to realize the repercussions their actions cause others....

~~~***~~~

Truer words never spoken....

"Please understand that you aren't just protecting yourself, you are protecting the people around you."

[wnylib]

6. I heard a college student today being interviewed

about going home for Thanksgiving. Her college is testing all students before they leave campus. She didn't think the testing was all that important because she's not afraid of dying from covid. She said she knows that God has prepared a special, wonderful place for his followers when they die.

Such self-centered hubris. I really wanted to hear the interviewer ask what kind of place she thought God had prepared for people who murder other people by thoughtlessly spreading a deadly virus.

[FakeNoose]

9. That's all teenagers though, they think they're never going to die

Seriously, when I was 19 or 20 I probably said something very similar to this.
I'm not reading anything political into what she said. That's how they all are at that age.

[wnylib]

14. I wasn't reading it as political. More like

just plain stupid, or selfish. And deaf to all warnings. It's not as if nobody has been saying how we all need to think of each other in this pandemic. It's being said everywhere.

She cites her faith as the reason why she is not afraid, so she must be connected to some religious group or organization. When I was that age, my church taught us to think of others beyond ourselves, to be responsible members of a larger community.

I know that teens think they are invulnerable. But I also know that teens can be quite considerate of others and get involved in thoughtful, caring activities. So I don't understand how that girl could still be so unaware or indifferent to her possible effects on others during a pandemic.

[Tommymac]

3. The attacks on this poor woman in the tweet comments are brutal and uncalled for.

I at times hate my Fellow Americans...at least the 40%+ who are fucking murderous asswipes, i.e. Rethuglican supporters.

Thank the goddess for the 60% who are sane, it's becasue of them I am still maintaining some sort of normalcy.

[colorado_ufo]

5. Oh, honey!!!

God bless you, and, when this is over, may God grant you joy every day of your life. And, your amazing co-workers, also!

[Canoe52]

7. Superheroes all.

[KS Toronado]

8. The before and after pictures are very telling.

[sandensea]

10. "Crisis actor!!!"

[Hugin]

11. To start, if any one of these people have one cent of student loan debt...

It should be immediately forgiven.

Negotiations start there. Truly above and beyond.

[FakeNoose]

12. I hope she runs for the House of Representatives in a few years

We need people in the House with perspective, who understand courage and loss.

[crickets]

13. My heartfelt thanks to every single nurse and doctor right now. 💖

[Hermit-The-Prog]

17. They will need help when all this trauma subsides.

They're living through nightmare situations and it's likely they will have nightmares to come, like troops coming home from war.

[Dustlawyer]

15. My paralegal got sent home for Quarantine because our bodybuilder IT guy

spent time loading an update on her computer Friday with no mask or gloves. He works out at the gym everyday and thinks that is where he caught Covid. I have only two more days at this firm because I am leaving after 18 years. Now I have to quarantine and my 83 year old mom lives with me.

What the Hell Dude! You go to a high risk gym and then go to employees offices without a mask or gloves! These selfish people have killed thousands!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

16. MAGAts are brutalizing such heroes. She, and all like her, should be cherished and protected.