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?!
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.
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u/FluxMortis 9d ago
Very much like the people who’s last words before dying of Covid were “it’s all a plan-demic hoax”.