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To: Winfastorlose who wrote (9296)	4/19/2020 1:20:21 PM
From: Kirk ©	1 Recommendation Recommended By kimberley Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 26729

From a good friend from West Virginia who left the nursing profession but at age 65 still works in Palo Alto as a teacher's aid. Michele Miller Hollar For those that think the virus is a joke: From an Alabama ER Nurse who flew to NY to help: For those of you who have texted, called, sent PMs... yes it is just like TV. I'm not working in the ER like I originally signed up for. The hospital I'm at went from one to six ICUs and they are being staffed by anyone with an RN license... no ICU experience. So because I have ICU experience I was needed there. Today I was in a unit with 20 patients. Every single one of them was intubated. 2 died today. One was 39, one was 40. Neither had underlying health conditions. As soon as we got the bodies to the makeshift morgue (18 wheeler)... we got 2 more vented patients from the ER. It never stops. I'm aware that Trump is saying the curve has shifted but it damn sure didn't feel like that today. One of the sickest patients on the unit I'm on is a nurse at that hospital. He will die alone with nobody but his fellow nurses by his side. This is cowboy nursing. Critical care drips being run on dial a flow tubing. Patients intubated and on 30 year old transfer vents. All we have on our unit is COVID. When we code a COVID patient we do one round of CPR and drugs. That's it. The physicians are scared to go in the rooms. I saw respiratory therapy once. When the patients died we just left them intubated and turned the vents off. There is no extubation at all. We are all entirely too exposed. Yes I have 1 N95 for the week. One gown, one face shield, one set of shoe covers, and one bonnet. I'll get a new set next week. The only thing I change are my gloves and my regular face mask to protect my precious N95. Every floor of my hospital has COVID... even NICU. Some instances, both parent of the COVID positive infant are already dead. Central Alabama will not be able to handle this. There are more than 20 hospitals in NYC... not near as many in my home area. Stay home. No matter what you hear in the news, stay home. Wear your mask no matter how dumb you feel. Wash your hands. Clean your house. Do not touch your face. There are so many dying people up here. I knew what I was coming into but being up here and seeing it is absolutely heartbreaking. Thanks for reading this far. Shared post

To: Winfastorlose who wrote (9296)	4/19/2020 1:46:19 PM
From: Kirk ©	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 26729

Perhaps the mistake is to assume we will ever be back to normal? Who would provide these services if one of the recent near miss asteroids had not missed? We'd all be dead. Unless they find a vaccine and we have a way to make sure everyone we deal with or attend basketball and football games with or go to concerts with or take yoga classes with have had the vaccine, only people who have had the Covid-19 antibody test positive and are sure they will be immune from second infections from mutations, I doubt we will ever be the same. I see whole business models dying as if hit by an asteroid. New ones will replace them but it will be painful. I see pretty much what Newsom is saying (but not Trump) in that we come back very slowly with many changes to how we do business. I also see the government probably continuing to dilute the value of my savings by printing more money to keep it all afloat, including the promised pensions. We may get to use the cover of C19 to fix the pension problems with some sort of managed bankruptcy & restructuring as I don't see CA having the tax collections to pay current obligations much less pensions for people retiring in their 50s at 60% full salaries.