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These vulnerable people should stay home period!
That's easy to say, but are you going to support them?
These vulnerable people should stay home period!
Her only other choice is to quit her job.Ha! More like I am the firefighter willing to run into the burning building at my own peril - even though the only person to be saved is the arsonist.
I wonder if you'd feel the same way if, instead of my colleague, it was your daughter who died on Dec 23 of COVID she caught at work, leaving a husband and two kids behind (she was not a vulnerable person and was young).
That's easy to say, but are you going to support them?
You conveniently ignore those of us who have no choice...no surprise, it has become clear that society regards us as expendable.
No one sends a fireman into the heart of a wildfire, they call them to retreat.
Ah, so our jobs make us expendable. Good to know
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I am so sorry for your loss I really have no words.
I have a bi-pap in the age of covid story.
I have bad copd as well as sleep apnia.
I had a copd exacerbation and put off going to the er almost to long. co2 was sky high.
Luckily my pulmonologist was on duty that night.
He put me in a suitable room on bi-pap even before the covid test came back negative because I would have not made it off a vent in his opinion which is what the other doc wanted to do. I knew that and that is why I avoided going in so long because the news was reporting no one was allowed bipap they were putting everyone on vents.
Another doc came on duty and had a fit about the bi-pap, I was groggy but I could hear him yelling ranting and raving about it.
Some time later the test came back negative so they moved me out of icu up one level with the bipap.
A few weeks later had another episode but not nearly as bad as I wnt in earlier so they just did o2 treatment until the test results in and I used the bi-pap all night.
Thank you for your service!
Covid has widened the social class divide. I know people who are resentful bc society utilizes them to make the rest of us comfortable. Their lives have been deemed expendable so that the rest of us can have chicken, produce, electricity, toilet paper —etc. If I had to expose myself daily to Covid in order to put food on the table—I would rationalize that I can also enjoy other activities. Subconsciously, I would adapt so that I wouldn’t torture myself after every shift. So when I see people posting on their soc media their outings or gatherings, who am I to judge from the comfort of my stay at home job? I just hope they wear a mask. So to answer your question. No.
Ha! More like I am the firefighter willing to run into the burning building at my own peril - even though the only person to be saved is the arsonist.
I wonder if you'd feel the same way if, instead of my colleague, it was your daughter who died on Dec 23 of COVID she caught at work, leaving a husband and two kids behind (she was not a vulnerable person and was young).
Yes, 100%. I’ll never look at Hilaria Baldwin the same way.
I'm speaking of a burning building with people trapped inside not a forest fire.
Yes, 100%. I’ll never look at Hilaria Baldwin the same way.
Yes, unfortunately. A recent example. Family members went out of town on a trip recently. Came back and two days later their child went to daycare. Turns out the teacher was Covid positive that day and they found out a few days later. They decline to test their child unless she shows symptoms. Then went the next day and got her a new bike ( wut?) then the next day went to work ( works at a pediatric urgent care). Maybe I’m the jerk here but I found this behavior to be reckless. Apparently family member got the vaccine last week but it still takes two weeks for it to be 50% effective.
my thinking is since their maskless child had exposure to a Covid positive person, the whole family should of been tested before going out and back to work. I’ve been trying REALLY hard not to be prideful about this. But it’s also not surprising because there’s been behavior in the past where they don’t think about others.
I work in the medical field. I have been exposed several times to patients who tested positive after I already came in contact with them. Actually two days ago this happened to me again when I was in the ED. I do not get Covid tested every time this happens.
Are you sure their child was maskless? I thought everyone was wearing a mask, especially in daycare/school settings? If this child was old enough to ride a bike, then they should be old enough to know how to wear a mask. I would imagine since they work in a pediatric urgent care they would also have been more adamant about teaching their child about wearing a mask?
Also even if the teacher had Covid, was she wearing a mask? Did they socially distance in the classroom? Did they all wash their hands, etc.
How can you be certain that this parent didn’t ask what they should do? I imagine working in a pediatric office they have access to doctors and nurses and could ask them what to do. I always ask my nurse manager what I should do if I think I was exposed. I even call employee health and ask them. Maybe the family member did ask and was told they could work.
I understand not wanting to get Covid tested until you show symptoms. That’s what we are told as well. Stay home if you have Covid symptoms and get Covid tested. But I can’t afford to stay home if I don’t have symptoms. My husband hasn’t been working since March. I’m the only breadwinner right now. We have four kids. Who would pay my bills if I stay home every time I have a potential exposure (I’ve been in contact with at least 30 Covid positive patients).
I don’t get paid every time I stay at home. They won’t pay me to stay home if I have no symptoms unless I lie. Plus I’ll get in trouble from work for calling out so much. Imagine if I called out for this reason? Why are you calling out? Well I don’t have symptoms and neither does my child, but she went to school maskless and her teacher was positive a few days ago. So I think I need to get tested prior to coming back to be on the safe side.
Especially calling out around the holidays. Even before Covid it’s been my experience if one calls out during the holidays you better be dying. I’ve had friends written up BC they called out during Christmas or New Years.
It’s sad but true.
Anyway, just trying to give you a perspective from their side.
You work in a medical setting and you will get into trouble for staying home if you’ve been exposed??
Yes. If I have no symptoms. If I have symptoms then that’s different. As I said I am exposed to patients all the time. If I stay home every time I am exposed without symptoms and don’t test positive for Covid, that 30 times I called out of work.
What job would keep anyone who called out that many times? Especially when they don’t have symptoms.
So basically if I call and say my daughter went to school and the teacher was positive a few days ago, I just found out now. My daughter and I have no symptoms but I am staying at home because I was exposed.
I will be told to come to work and if I don’t I will get into trouble.
There is only so much paid time off we accrue as well. Everytime we call out we use it. We don’t have unlimited sick time. So if I was exposed to 30 patients and called out every time I was exposed, I honestly would not be able to survive. I only work two to three days a week. Covid results take two days to come back normally. So if I was exposed today, got tested the next day and had to wait two days for my results, I have now been out of work for the whole week. Multiply that by each exposure and you have no pto to cover you.
You work in a medical setting and you will get into trouble for staying home if you’ve been exposed??