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As a follow up to my pharmacist friends post I want to help you all understand a little about where we are at. Needle every nurse I work with is working extra shifts. Nearly every, single one. Some at our facility, others at adult hospitals, others at covid testing sites.
The adult hospital aspect is perhaps unsurprising. However, kids are beginning to be affected as well. I don't know exact numbers, but up until 2 weeks ago we had less than 5 total patients come through our pediatric ICU positive for covid. And we tested literally every patient.
The past 2 weeks have been different. Drastically different. We now have an entire section walled off and sealed to care for pediatric covid patients. I can't get in to details, but there's more currently there then weve seen the entire pandemic combined. And deaths are following
Some of these deaths will come from acute covid infections, others are coming from the multi system inflammatory syndrome in children that has previously been discussed. Children who literally just drop at home, with next to no warning. They get to us, and despite all our
Medical advancements and technology and treatments there is literally nothing we can do for them. It's sucks. This is what we needed to try to avoid. And think about it for just a second... If Congress had acted to help financially, if we had allv worked together, sacrificing
A little, if we had held off for even 3 more months a vaccine would be here and we could have avoided this. Instead we failed. We failed each other in a horrible way. My selfish desires trumped everything else. And make no mistake about it... It's selfishness, plain and simple.
This isn't about the constitution. That's something you tell yourself to convince yourself you aren't a scientifically ignorant ass. This is because you care more about yourself than others. That's it. And now we are seeing the culmination of that failure. Congratulations.
And before people say "but mental health! What about our kids mental health?!?". Congratulations .. You've highlighted another failure of our system. We suck at mental health treatment in this country. We generally suck at making lots of treatment available for everyone.
Contrary to popular belief, if we so chose to prioritize it, we could weather the pandemic, financially care for people and treat mental health issues. We apparently have little desire to do that though. This is a decades long failure, and we are reaping the consequences.
