by blondy28 Fri Aug 27, 2021 7:32 am
jaywit wrote: sharpy wrote:I wish I could muster sympathy for my fellow man but after 18+ months of this I can't. When they get sick if they'd just stay away from the hospitals and stop turning ERs into 3rd world disaster scenes.
Thanks for posting this Jay b/c i was feeling guilty about how I was feeling about the anti-vaxxers. It's come to the point where I start hoping they will get it and will die . I'm tired of being politically correct when a patient tells me they haven't been vaccinated and biting my tongue ... no sympathy and no empathy - and like you said, stop fucking up my time by coming to the hospital .. and putting me at risk
I get to thinking the same thing, feeling vindicated when some dumb fuck succumbs to something so preventable. Initially, I showed respect to patients and would skirt the issue partly because the vaccine wasn't the issue for which I see patients. But now I am personally drawn into discussions with these deniers, sort of like being unable to turn away from a bad vehicular accident. In the past 8 months, I think I may have convinced 3 or 4 people to actually get the vaccine, probably a 1-2% success rate. The rest absolutely refuse to believe what I tell them....then listen and implicitly believe in me when I tell them about the fucking chemotherapy I'm about to give them, probably a 90% success rate.
Yeah, it's stunning. My nurse wore a virtual hazmat suit to administer adriamycin, and I was told for the next three days, I had to close the lid when I flushed the toilet so it didn't get into the air.
I manage a condo building, with the most vulnerable population. I would say average age is late 70s/early 80s. My maintenance person is beloved. He's legendary on the north shore. People buy into my building, in large part, because of him. The association owns a unit that he and his family live in as part of his compensation. Unlike many, he actually followed the state's direction and continued to wear a mask because he's not vaccinated, and a month or two after the vaccine came out, he was leery about getting vaccinated, but would say "it's not if, but when", often mentioning that he was waiting for FDA approval. After it became clear that approval was days away, his language changed. Even though he continued to wear a mask, my owners were STUNNED to learn that he went into their units without being vaccinated. They felt betrayed. We'd been discussing a mandate over many months, and association counsel had advised against it, until about two weeks ago. As other entities/businesses began mandating vaccination, and the courts seemed to uphold the mandates, she felt comfortable advising that the board could mandate. Yesterday we had an executive session (closed meeting) to discuss it, and it was the most difficult decision the board has ever had to make, because the owners both adore them, but fear for their safety. They suggested mandating that he get tested weekly, thinking that would motivate him to get vaccinated. I didn't think it would at all and advise them as such. I told them that he takes such pride in his work, that the only thing I could envision that would motivate him to get vaccinated is if they told him that while he waits for results of the weekly testing, he couldn't work. That we'd have to hire someone to maintain the pool. That we'd have to hire an engineer to oversee the remodeling project that's currently being undertaken in one of the units. The board prez and I sat down with him yesterday afternoon, and told him that all employees had to be fully vaccinated by October 15, and his response was "do I need to make plans for after October 15?" He's living on the north shore. His two kids are in one of the best school districts in the state. He's two blocks from Lake Michigan. The idea that he would not only leave his job, but actually have to find a place to live, because he refuses to get vaccinated BOGGLES THE MIND. His father-in-law died of Covid last year, one day after he was diagnosed. But still, he's refusing.
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