you know what - it may be time to build a wall, put all the stupid people inside it, and then throw cases of invermectin and silver colloid over every now and then to keep them happy
Me either, though it doesn't specify whether whackadoo parents can insist their kids are given these ineffective at best, harmful at worst, medications they learned about on FB.
I would feel bad for any kids that are forced to drink the horse paste thanks to their parents.
I don’t give two shits if these idiots want to take dewormer, inject Clorox, or take “covfefe” enemas. Let them. Remove all warning labels from products. The problem will take care of itself…
Maybe now we can get some goddamned codeine cough syrup when we need it.
I hate the way codeine has been vilified; in the face of fentanyl, no less! (Well, maybe not *in* its face.)
Codeine cough syrup is the ONLY medicine that knocks out a cough, and it’s not “drug-seeking behavior” to ask for it. Nothing wrong with the solid night’s sleep it brings, either.
When voters elect GOP politicians who mandate quackery, and deny access to evidence-based, routine, standard of care treatment (reproductive care for women, hormones, etc. for trans care) we will all suffer the consequences. Qualified, ethical providers will move to blue states. I fear the suffering of consequences will fall on us, not on GOP politicians where it belongs.
WTAF is wrong with these people?? I guess they didn’t get the memo that clearly shows leeches alternatingly administered with wolfsbane is a much more dependable and effective treatment! Ah, Darwin…. 🤫
Ta, Robyn. Because I'm *gasp* vaccinated and boosted, my COVID-19 cases were so mild I did not need any meds. No fever. The first time it was just fatigue. The second time sore throat and very mild flu-like symptoms. Beloved husband Meccalopolis (when he was still beloved fiancé) took Paxlovid last time he had it. That anyone would take dewormer for it is fucking nuts.
I wish Congress could agree on a standardized measurement that would classify proposed legislation as being too stupid to proceed with a vote: Throw out immediately. Maybe that can be done in the near future with A.I.
I’m an ICU nurse who was on the original critical care team to respond to covid when it showed up in my state. Patient Zero.
I can’t even begin to describe those beginning moments. I told my therapist that it felt like the movie Arrival. The fear and bewilderment that the team felt going into the ship for the first time. They were escalating patients in crazy respiratory failure, drowning in their own fluids and aspirating vomit, intubating people every couple minutes. Somehow shoving two vented people in the same room. Intubated people in the halls. When the first one rolled in, I just remember squeezing my work wife’s hand and taking a deep breath. I have never felt so much fear, unknown, anger, abandoned, and aloneness as I did in those first few months.
In the beginning, I basically lived at the hospital. While everyone else was flattening the curve and making TikTok’s and learning new hobbies and remodeling their homes and, and, and, and…. I was holding 42 year old men’s hands while they were crying, barely breathing and begging me to keep them alive because they had to see their daughters go to prom and graduate. I was holding up iPads so families could say goodbye to grandmas and dads and brothers. I had to explain to a 16 year old girl that her mother was going to die within the next few hours as her dad was being intubated in the ER. I had to be part of an entire community of medical professionals who were just at their wits ends because everyone was dying and we still couldn’t figure out what the fuck to do.
And then the semi truck freezers showed up in the parking lot. The morgue had run out of space and we had literally no place to store the bodies. We were tetris’ing bodies in spaces as it was, beyond dead body capacity. They were piling up because all the funeral homes and crematories were closed down, of course. Every day was a horror movie. I can’t even guess how many bodies I personally bagged. Hundreds and hundreds. Honestly, I still feel like I can’t get the stench of death and dying off me.
I’m not the same person I was before the pandemic. I feel like a shell of a human most days.
I will never forgive these people for what they’ve done to me.
Thank you for writing this, let alone experiencing it to help so many others. Every time I encounter someone who talks shit about the vaccine, or complained or jokes now about the mask mandates, I remind them of what nurses and teachers went through. I hope you have help processing everything, you deserve it.
Since MAGAts are parasites, they might as well get the best treatment for what ails them, as long as the hospitals aren't held accountable for their stupid demands. It's no skin off my nose if they want to piss and shit themselves blind.
It works and it’s cheaper
you know what - it may be time to build a wall, put all the stupid people inside it, and then throw cases of invermectin and silver colloid over every now and then to keep them happy
I can't seem to be able to get all worked up about idiots taking themselves out of the gene pool.
Me either, though it doesn't specify whether whackadoo parents can insist their kids are given these ineffective at best, harmful at worst, medications they learned about on FB.
I would feel bad for any kids that are forced to drink the horse paste thanks to their parents.
I don’t give two shits if these idiots want to take dewormer, inject Clorox, or take “covfefe” enemas. Let them. Remove all warning labels from products. The problem will take care of itself…
Tangential to this news story:
Maybe now we can get some goddamned codeine cough syrup when we need it.
I hate the way codeine has been vilified; in the face of fentanyl, no less! (Well, maybe not *in* its face.)
Codeine cough syrup is the ONLY medicine that knocks out a cough, and it’s not “drug-seeking behavior” to ask for it. Nothing wrong with the solid night’s sleep it brings, either.
When voters elect GOP politicians who mandate quackery, and deny access to evidence-based, routine, standard of care treatment (reproductive care for women, hormones, etc. for trans care) we will all suffer the consequences. Qualified, ethical providers will move to blue states. I fear the suffering of consequences will fall on us, not on GOP politicians where it belongs.
WTAF is wrong with these people?? I guess they didn’t get the memo that clearly shows leeches alternatingly administered with wolfsbane is a much more dependable and effective treatment! Ah, Darwin…. 🤫
FACE PARASITE TRUMPS BRAINWORM!
Read All About It Here!
Go ahead, by all means give it to any adult who wants it.
Sounds like that "freedom" reich wingers all claim they're for.
Ta, Robyn. Because I'm *gasp* vaccinated and boosted, my COVID-19 cases were so mild I did not need any meds. No fever. The first time it was just fatigue. The second time sore throat and very mild flu-like symptoms. Beloved husband Meccalopolis (when he was still beloved fiancé) took Paxlovid last time he had it. That anyone would take dewormer for it is fucking nuts.
Stop this world, please, I'd like to get off.
I wish Congress could agree on a standardized measurement that would classify proposed legislation as being too stupid to proceed with a vote: Throw out immediately. Maybe that can be done in the near future with A.I.
I feel like I’m in the upside down.
I’m an ICU nurse who was on the original critical care team to respond to covid when it showed up in my state. Patient Zero.
I can’t even begin to describe those beginning moments. I told my therapist that it felt like the movie Arrival. The fear and bewilderment that the team felt going into the ship for the first time. They were escalating patients in crazy respiratory failure, drowning in their own fluids and aspirating vomit, intubating people every couple minutes. Somehow shoving two vented people in the same room. Intubated people in the halls. When the first one rolled in, I just remember squeezing my work wife’s hand and taking a deep breath. I have never felt so much fear, unknown, anger, abandoned, and aloneness as I did in those first few months.
In the beginning, I basically lived at the hospital. While everyone else was flattening the curve and making TikTok’s and learning new hobbies and remodeling their homes and, and, and, and…. I was holding 42 year old men’s hands while they were crying, barely breathing and begging me to keep them alive because they had to see their daughters go to prom and graduate. I was holding up iPads so families could say goodbye to grandmas and dads and brothers. I had to explain to a 16 year old girl that her mother was going to die within the next few hours as her dad was being intubated in the ER. I had to be part of an entire community of medical professionals who were just at their wits ends because everyone was dying and we still couldn’t figure out what the fuck to do.
And then the semi truck freezers showed up in the parking lot. The morgue had run out of space and we had literally no place to store the bodies. We were tetris’ing bodies in spaces as it was, beyond dead body capacity. They were piling up because all the funeral homes and crematories were closed down, of course. Every day was a horror movie. I can’t even guess how many bodies I personally bagged. Hundreds and hundreds. Honestly, I still feel like I can’t get the stench of death and dying off me.
I’m not the same person I was before the pandemic. I feel like a shell of a human most days.
I will never forgive these people for what they’ve done to me.
Thank you. Your experience matters. I am so so sorry.
Thank you for writing this, let alone experiencing it to help so many others. Every time I encounter someone who talks shit about the vaccine, or complained or jokes now about the mask mandates, I remind them of what nurses and teachers went through. I hope you have help processing everything, you deserve it.
Ohh.
I can't blame you for not forgiving these people. They're just horrible.
Were you at Elmhurst Hospital? I'm so very sorry you went through that, and I hope you've gotten treatment for PTSD. Hugs, if they're welcome.
Actually we squirt it on crackers like Cheese Whiz for the holidays. Quite delicious!
And what do you squirt after that?
Since MAGAts are parasites, they might as well get the best treatment for what ails them, as long as the hospitals aren't held accountable for their stupid demands. It's no skin off my nose if they want to piss and shit themselves blind.