Former WA State Trooper who went viral has died of Covid

His family will be like the 20 year old who died from Covid, dad said well at least he died a pure blood. I’m like this is a virus not fucking Harry Potter.

I have a friend who is a nurse at the hospital in Everett, WA where the first confirmed COVID patient in the US was treated. He worked in the COVID unit for nearly 2 years. He is an incredibly kind and compassionate person. He recently transferred to another unit because he got so tired of the abuse and accusations from non vaccinated patients and their family members. These awful, argumentative patients in the COVID wards are chasing away great people who genuinely care about their patients and want to provide the best care possible.

Oh, God. It would be hard for me to not tell her to f off, but I'd be more likely to say my husband had a mild breakthrough case because his vaccine did its job. I didn't get Covid from him because my vaccine is doing its job.

2016 didn’t give you a clue?

I have reached a point I don't feel sad for the unvaccinated or their families (unless they are vaccination advocates who couldn't convince their unvaxed family members)
I just feel angry at what they put the health care workers through.  I am at the point I think if an unvaxxed Covid patient shows up at the hospital they should just be sent home with their "cold" to let nature take its course.
Society (medical people in this case)  shouldn't be forced to care more about your health than you do.

I’m so glad there are people like your daughter that are stepping up to help where they are so desperately needed. I hope she has a good experience.

Or is it that they lean right these days and don't want to talk about it?

KOMO used to be my favorite channel for news.  Then Kathy passed, Dan retired, Steve Pool is gone. 

And they were bought out by Sinclair and stories started coming out about how they were pushing right-wing agenda ... more people leaving, etc.

I don't follow KING or KIRO that closely, but I wonder as these media conglomerates consolidate if they aren't more and more becoming owned by right-wing billionaires who have an agenda to push?

Yes, I've heard the same. Nutballs.

You are right, but the unvaccinated should not be there if they do not want proper care. They use up far more resources enmass.

I don't complain about being overrun with non-compliant diabetics, alcoholics with liver disease and ascites, people who don't take their diuretics or abide by fluid restrictions so they have CHF exacerbations, people with kidney disease who won't follow a proper diet, IV drug addicts who develop sepsis from dirty needles, or any of those things that could avoid multiple hospitalizations every year thus leaving room for people with emergencies, heart attacks, and pneumonia (or whatever is deemed worthy).

I don't understand what's hard to understand about my point that we can't decide one group of people shouldn't be treated. You can have your personal feelings about it, but I don't have the luxury of not wanting to clean up the incontinent 536 lb woman who's screaming at us that we're hurting her because it takes at least 4 of us to turn her. And that's becoming less and less rare in this country, that people are so obese they no longer can (or are willing to) properly care for themselves. I don't want to get sandwiches all night for the asshole meth user who fried his heart and has no intention of paying his bill. I don't want to check blood sugars every hour on the diabetic nerd who brought a secret stash of Little Debbies and pretends not to know why his blood sugar is 450 and blames it on me for "not giving me enough insulin". Cleaning up the weeping edema and leg ulcers of the CHF down the hall who had his brother bring him a huge bag of Wendy's straight to his room, thus filling himself with sodium again, continuing to retain fluid, and bitching that his legs hurt. It goes on and on.

I don't mind turning and cleaning up 98 year old meemaw. I do mind turning and cleaning up 500 lb 46 year olds. But, I don't (and shouldn't) get to decide that one of them shouldn't be cared for. That's my only point, that it's a slippery slope.


ETA OK, I do in fact complain about them 😆😆 I'm sorry but GODDAMMIT