Lastgirl posted:

depends on how hardcore covid gets with bigger waves because they're being aggressively lovely in a stubborn way about open biden

and yes, NYC is the seat of capitalism, the de facto capital. There were already laborers organizing mass protests in the streets that were not covered by the media because of Afghanistan, so it'd have to be so bad that they're forced a coverage

bedpan posted:

[COVID-19] "Open Biden" is a direct quote

Caseman posted:

The fun thing that most people don't think about with situations like this is when you're this short-staffed it's obviously dangerous for patients, but if something gets missed by a nurse because they're overworked do you think it's the hospital that suffers? Of course not, it's the nurse who loses their license! Every single dangerous thing a nurse does they put their career on the line. It's great!

In Training posted:

well I'm sure ending UI and the eviction moratorium will bring stability to the working class so nothing to worry about

tangy yet delightful posted:

What sorta hours did you work pre-pandemic and are you working any more hours now?

Have they raised your pay at all (like for normal shifts, not picking up these extra $1K bonus shifts)?

Fireside Nut posted:

what in the gently caress is wrong with security there. loving useless

Zurtilik posted:

I thought we were going to have like 3.3 million in the US dead within like a year. Which might make me sound like the real doomer but I thought it was going to kill quick and burn itself out. Now it's going to kill 5 million over 6 years.

jetz0r posted:

Covid really was the trial run for climate change. And in the scope of climate change, currently we're in the first little wave of infections from spring 2020.

Lovelyn posted:

There's no forced overtime yet so we're all obligated to work the same hours, but plenty of RNs quit the field/specialty/hospital and despite a $20k sign-on bonus, we're consistently short staffed still

Raised our pay? Buddy, they stopped our retirement contributions (but recently restarted them)

SchrodingersCat posted:

I remember back in March 2020 I was talking to my child brother who kept saying COVID was just the flu. I predicted 500k dead and thought that was a tragedy. We're gonna pass a million by Christmas.

With numbers now being totally hosed by the Biden administration there's no way to know how bad it really is except by the fact that when I go out in public almost everywhere is dead.

Zurtilik posted:

security is usually woefully underpaid and undertrained dudes.

thiccabod posted:

Personally I'm still waiting for the Mad Max Hellscape version of America that 90% of cpam was insistent we'd be living in by easter of 2020. When I do get to shoot my neighbor in defense of my beans???

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:

I work in healthcare metrics for Medicare credentialing and recently NCQA has decided that customer healthcare experience surveys are every bit as important as health outcomes and have instituted a thing they call CAHPS to measure how satisfied they are as customers.

Produce good outcomes but people are upset about waiting on hold too long when they call? Eat poo poo buddy, enjoy your poor rating.

Pillowpants posted:

is there a good write up of how we should have responded to covid over the past 18 months anywhere?

I’m trying to convince someone to get vaccinated because they can’t rely on Biden to do the right thing, so I’d really love to have a “Covid occurs in a better timeline” write up

SchrodingersCat posted:

I remember back in March 2020 I was talking to my child brother who kept saying COVID was just the flu. I predicted 500k dead and thought that was a tragedy. We're gonna pass a million by Christmas.

With numbers now being totally hosed by the Biden administration there's no way to know how bad it really is except by the fact that when I go out in public almost everywhere is dead.

Nix Panicus posted:

Yeah, I checked in on the thread to ask about mu. Some articles say its a minor South American variant thats already over and doesn't hold a candle to delta, and some articles claim mu cannot be stopped by vaccines and is coming to end humanity. Kinda hard to tell whats true without investing a lot of time reading medical journals, so instead I thought Id ask a bunch of obsessive weirdos who do read medical journals

Zurtilik posted:

My experience has been that hospital security is usually woefully underpaid and undertrained dudes.

Biowarfare posted:

i am kind of curious, the general public always mentions the 'supernero nurses and doctors' but what the gently caress happens to all the hospital support staff? do the cleaners, janitors, etc get offered the same amount of high quality ppe, pathogen training and ensuring they know about pathogens? do they get therapy to deal with turning over a bed because the person in it has died, again, every single day? or is it all just min wage contracted work? how is that compatible with spread given lower income means higher likelihood of being in a multigeneration home with multiple members that are old or can't be vaccinated?

for some reason i never read anything about this

In Training posted:

is Mu the next one. I thought we were "reaching the variant ceiling" with delta+

Caseman posted:

Biowarfare posted:

i am kind of curious, the general public always mentions the 'supernero nurses and doctors' but what the gently caress happens to all the hospital support staff? do the cleaners, janitors, etc get offered the same amount of high quality ppe, pathogen training and ensuring they know about pathogens? do they get therapy to deal with turning over a bed because the person in it has died, again, every single day? or is it all just min wage contracted work? how is that compatible with spread given lower income means higher likelihood of being in a multigeneration home with multiple members that are old or can't be vaccinated?

for some reason i never read anything about this

Biowarfare posted:

i am kind of curious, the general public always mentions the 'supernero nurses and doctors' but what the gently caress happens to all the hospital support staff? do the cleaners, janitors, etc get offered the same amount of high quality ppe, pathogen training and ensuring they know about pathogens? do they get therapy to deal with turning over a bed because the person in it has died, again, every single day? or is it all just min wage contracted work? how is that compatible with spread given lower income means higher likelihood of being in a multigeneration home with multiple members that are old or can't be vaccinated?

for some reason i never read anything about this

Ursine Catastrophe posted:

what timeline do you think you're in here lol

Fireside Nut posted:

the consumerization of healthcare is disgusting. there are some legit quality related changes that are a small positive, but a lot of it is just capitalism’s continued destruction of the industry.

I remember we had this CMO over the cancer institute whose big ‘vision’ was a concierge service for cancer patients. and, no, this wasn’t about care coordination and healthcare related stuff, he wanted this to be a line you could call and have them make dinner reservations and schedule you a taxi. I think they got like a few calls a month until they realized it was costing the hospital an insane amount of money for the worst idea ever. he took a job with one of competitors shortly after lmao it must own to make like $750k a year to come up with inane poo poo like that

Nix Panicus posted:

The US will never cross 1 million deaths. Ever. Record keeping will get steadily worse as we asymptotically approach one million, until eventually COVID is over but pneumonia deaths are getting out of control

Biowarfare posted:

i am kind of curious, the general public always mentions the 'supernero nurses and doctors' but what the gently caress happens to all the hospital support staff? do the cleaners, janitors, etc get offered the same amount of high quality ppe, pathogen training and ensuring they know about pathogens? do they get therapy to deal with turning over a bed because the person in it has died, again, every single day? or is it all just min wage contracted work? how is that compatible with spread given lower income means higher likelihood of being in a multigeneration home with multiple members that are old or can't be vaccinated?

for some reason i never read anything about this

Nix Panicus posted:

The US will never cross 1 million deaths. Ever. Record keeping will get steadily worse as we asymptotically approach one million, until eventually COVID is over but pneumonia deaths are getting out of control

Hungry posted:

26 hours after Pfizer shot number 3, and I ache literally from head to toe, with every joint in my body, and have done for the last 12 hours.

fosborb posted:

lol



lmao

In Training posted:

is Mu the next one. I thought we were "reaching the variant ceiling" with delta+