'This is our generation's D-Day': As US nears 500,000 COVID-19 deaths, weary health care workers

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

fight on amid the heartbreak

SAN FRANCISCO – Nearly a year into a life-altering pandemic, many Americans are fed up with wearing masks, desperate for a return to normalcy and numb to the relentless stream of grim numbers, such as the 500,000 COVID-19 deaths the USA is about to surpass.

Health care workers don’t want to hear any of that.

They have been working endless hours amid constant death and suffering, forsaking time off and exposing themselves to the disease, leaving them exhausted and with no real indication of when the pandemic will relent.

“There’s definitely some tangible fatigue on the health care workers’ side, being sick of COVID and sick of people disregarding public health guidance, getting sick and expecting us to defer another vacation or put off something else,” said Eric Cioe-Peña, an emergency room physician running a COVID-19 field hospital in Staten Island, New York. “I’ve been telling people who thank me for this, ‘Just tell yourself and everyone you know to wear a mask when you’re out in public places. Don’t clap, don’t give me baked goods. I don’t need any of that. I need you to wear a mask and not get COVID.’”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/this-is-our-generations-d-day-as-us-nears-500000-covid-19-deaths-weary-health-care-workers-fight-on-amid-the-heartbreak/ar-BB1dSIax?li=BBnb7Kz

[Docreed2003]

1. K&R

I can attest to this and Dr Cioe-Peña certainly speaks for me.

[Dustlawyer]

2. Remember the shock when Fauci said there could be as many as 200,000 deaths?

That was if we took the proper precautions. Well we now know what happened to that! Trump added 300,000 and counting to the total.

[abqtommy]

3. Sure, I'm tired of masking, distancing and sanitizing. But I do it to protect myself and those

around me. I won't refuse the vaccine. And I'll just keep on masking, distancing and sanitizing
because I know that it will increase my chances of surviving other existing problems like
ebola and the next pandemic that's just waiting to decimate the world population. Let's not be
complacent and think that it's not gonna happen!