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Buckeye_Democrat

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2. I was shocked to see family members allowed...

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Mon Jun 7, 2021, 05:39 AM

Jun 2021

... in hospitals within India, mourning the loss of their loved ones as it happened.

Such policies obviously increase the risk of wider transmission, but the heart-breaking wails of mourning also made me suspect that hospital staff could suffer from violence during those emotional events.

Here's a prime example, a little after the 5-minute mark of the video, which thankfully didn't result in violence towards the hospital employees despite how the son had previously complained that the understaffed hospital wasn't helping his mother enough:

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'They stormed the ICU and beat the doctor': health workers under attack [View all] Judi Lynn Jun 2021 OP

I guess the other danger of a world wide pandemic is it makes people literally crazy. Maraya1969 Jun 2021 #1

If they behave like this now, it means they have always been this crazy. HUAJIAO Jun 2021 #3

This nt XanaDUer2 Jun 2021 #4

I was shocked to see family members allowed... Buckeye_Democrat Jun 2021 #2

The man on the floor with mask under chin (after 5 min mark) live love laugh Jun 2021 #5