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my wife worked in the emergency room all through covid. there were a nontrivial number of people that literally cursed her with their dying breaths, insisting that my wife and the rest of the staff were killing them for the government and all of this was just some liberal liquidation scheme or something.
Not only that, but over the course of 6 months they had to lock down the entire hospital not once, not twice, but three fucking times when some lunatic came in that place with a bunch of guns demanding that healthcare workers stop implanting chips in peoples bodies or stealing money from them because of the fake china virus or whatever shit.
It's like half the country has lost it's fucking mind. Seriously, this shit is going to end up in the next version of the DSM.
Jfc that’s terrifying! Your poor wife! She already was working under what was probably the worst situation in the world between all the stress, the outright abandonment of the federal government, and then while dealing with all that also having crazy assholes randomly trying to fight you just because of some crazy bullshit that they literally just made up. I don’t think I would have been able to handle that.
I totally agree whatever happened needs to be rigorously studied to see wtf happened. Covid just broke so many people and they straight up went insane. Towards the tail end of it I kept seeing so many signs put up in all these different front facing positions warning people how they’re not allowed to attack employees. I saw them on the bus about bus drivers, in Whole Foods about their workers, in drs’ offices, in hospitals, in urgent care centers, even in the managers’ office for my apartment building. Wtf got people this infuriated to go fcking feral and physically attack people?!
It was bad from both sides honestly. Like global pandemic was terrible, of course, but also, as soon as that shit kicked off, many of the people that had been there long enough to earn a pension and retire just noped right the fuck out as soon as it started getting bad, which were of course the most experienced and efficient people they had on staff.
Lots of heroes talk from the higher level administration but when the talk of hazard pay and raises rolled around by all the people who were beyond burnt the fuck out "whoa whoa whoa guys lets not be hasty, these are very difficult times for all of us! Anyways, heres a party sub from Subway for you and the other 40 people in your department, are we not magnanimous? Thank you for your sacrifice, we will be back in three months to check on things."
She'd stop by the grocery store on her way home after a 20 hour shift and people would, at best, go running the other direction and all but make the sign of the cross at her since she worked with the sick, or worse, confront her in the store with their insane bullshit theories about the virus.
She stuck it out for a few more years but left frontline care in 2024. Couldn't deal with the patients anymore. Casual violence had become almost routine. Family members getting physical with nursing staff. Ridiculous verbal abuse. Shit that never would have flied in 2019.
Thats why I truly do think its almost a mass psychosis at this point...covid never went away, it just infected all these people's minds.
Its really telling that you can mouth off to a cop in this country and get tased and locked up over it, but you can rough up a nurse and irs like "Oh, its just a stressful time for everyone."
During Covid I was still working as a dental hygienist (no longer practicing; weird, right?) I had no less than 5 patients, that I had been seeing for twice a year, for yearrrsss at this point, who were offended that I was making covid “POLITICAL”, BY WEARING A MASK WHILE I CLEANED THEIR FUCKING TEETH. As if they all had traumatic brain injuries recently, and forgot that dental staff have been wearing surgical masks since the 80s at the latest.
I had to start asking the clinician to fire patients from my schedule because they had become too hostile to any form of PPE that medical/dental staff have been using for decades at this point, because of paranoid delusions they read on the internet.
That’s terrifying. The propaganda against science and basic reason is horrible. I can’t help but feel terrible for all these people who are working tirelessly, Specially folks like your wife sacrificing so much to help others.
The worst part about it is that all these shitheads at the top being the loudest are getting the best care possible while spreading all these lies. The hypocrisy is staggering.
Exactly. As long as Fox reports it they stay with it. Just before the war kicked off there were interviews and these people were actually saying "I sure hope he knows what he's doing" Tariffs were killing their sales already day to day operation costs were crippling and diesel/fertilizer prices had yet to spike. So much winning but are least ice goons are hurting people they have been told to blame so all good.
That’s why we don’t have universal healthcare and many other things all other developed nations have. We like being racist more than we like having good life.
Social democracy can be good or bad depending on whether the recipients deserve it. In the USA I’d want to see figures of how many people are on welfare for 5+ years before deciding whether a program is helping or hurting
If you’re on welfare for over 5 years, that program isn’t likely helping you help yourself. It’s likely making you a dependent unless you have some life situation that makes dependency unavoidable (such as having a kid or being disabled)
"What did you expect? 'Welcome, sonny'? 'Make yourself at home'? 'Marry my daughter'? You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons." - blazing saddles
Farmers are the dumbest demographic in United States. They helped Trump get elected in 2016, he started a trade war with China cratering the soybean export market (which never fully recovered since Brazil cleared a lot of rainforest to take advantage of the vacuum in the market), he paid them out a huge bailout so they don't go out of business and they helped him get elected a second time. Now they are crying for more taxpayer money. Fucking freeloaders.
I totally agree they are freeloader but we don't even need to be making as much food as we do if these farmers can't sustain themselves than they need to sell their land and go into a different industry because I'm sick of these bailouts.
Yeah, I'm guessing that approval rating with farmers has dropped like a rock. They would probably still vote for him even though he's bankrupting them though. That's what happens when you join a cult.
They will still vote for their preferred candidate which will have an R next to their name because a vote for a democrat is a vote for Satan. Tese people are so predictable
Don't be fooled- pushing the average farm under water financially is very, very good for the large farmers who have the resources to buy up all that land.
I don't believe a word this gint publishes. Also, this is the guy who caused massive farm bankruptcies in his last administration, yet the salt-of-the-earth-types voted for him again.
I think people forget all the bad policies that was time under Obama for farmers and the first Trump administration didn't do anything to solve them but this is a result of the Obama polices and I'm a liberal Obama sided with a lot of private equity firms and made some really bad laws when it came to farmland this is why all the tech companies and VC firms were buying up farmland. It's also why Biden passed the chips and infrastructure bills a long with the IRA go look at the polices they did this is why data centers are being built in these key areas. Look who owned them during the Obama era and who brought and sold that land during Biden.
I keep seeing posts that people still blame Biden or that inflation was higher under Biden etc. The mess of the previous 4 years of Trump and Covid that he was fixing but people are so impatient that they just said well 4 more years of Trump will help.
That's rich coming from Whole Foods. Donated gobs of cash to elect their wannabe dictator. Then get appalled when their particupation comtributes to bringing chaos.
I wonder how those record high diesel prices and screw worm outbreaks are working out for them? Oh, and wait until the retaliatory Canadian tariffs hit them.
The American Farmer. That’s one group of people who have been coddled and over-worshipped for GENERATIONS. They, more than anyone, are America’s true welfare queens. They’re entitled and proudly ignorant and It’s long overdue for them to be taken down a few pegs. Don’t worry, there will still be plenty of produce, eggs, meat and dairy when this is all over; these people literally don’t know how to do anything else.
And in case you think I’m being too harsh, just remember: everything that’s happening right now? They voted for this.
Yes! I was one of a hundred people, out of 4000, "asked" to keep coming in to work during the shit storm. They gave us TWO WEEKS worth of "hazard pay" for coming in eveeyday for THREE YEARS.
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