Today I had an appointment with my pain management doc, who I have a very casual and open relationship with.
He calls me in, and before we even get to an exam room he starts bitching, “I am so ANGRY.” I joked I hoped it wasn’t me and he started in on how our stupid anti-mask mandate and anti-vax mandate governor (Abbott, R-TX) has been requiring ALL medical personnel to start working at all the tightly-packed-as-sardines overflowing hospitals around the state.
He’s having to treat, and sign death certificates for, and argue with loved ones about intubation-or-not, with all the dumbass unvaccinated FUCKING IDIOTS THAT DON’T LISTEN in this god-forsaken state. I feel so bad for him. He is such a great doctor, and genuinely kind man. Plus his wife is going through chemo! He is terrified to bring home Covid despite being as careful as he can be. He has small children, too.
Get vaccinated, people. No, not you… YOU, the lurker over there in the corner. Do it for others!
Our “basements” are dirt-floor hill slope, bricked-in underporches. Living there would have been primitive, and jurry-rigged wiring may have caused the fire.
I didn’t get on well with them. The hospitalized man runs a roof gutter business, and ten years ago tied a small Pomeranian dog to his work truck as an organic burglar alarm. Cold, wet, scared, it yippied all night. I lost my temper more than once. They kept two larger dogs as well, and one day I saw them playing tug of war with the Pomeranian’s corpse. Afterward I heard the woman who would later die in the fire crying.
People are weak and mean and ignorant, but I’m still sorry for their suffering.
Inter faeces et urinam nascimur.
(We are born between shit and piss.)
St. Augustine of Hippo
Yes, the video said she was in the basement because she had tested positive for Covid and was self isolating. She was trapped when the floor above her collapsed.
Nope, she is definitely the covidiot here! I’ve gotten a couple facials in the past 6 month since I get horrible acne from my masks. I was made to wait in my car until the previous guest left, the receptionist wiped down the door handles and lobby chairs while I watched, and then the esthetician stayed masked up with a face shield the entire time. Of course I couldn’t wear a mask due to the nature of the procedure. I felt safe enough to go back for a return visit, and am planning on going back again in the next month or so.
It’s her own home. The basement is not more covid-proof than the first floor.
Good on her for staying home but otherwise I am baffled.
Although, to be fair, if she was on the first floor and the house collapsed she’d go down with it. Not to mention the state of the house that led to collapse…a whole other discussion.
I don’t know about her local hospital, but mine is full and the Guard is coordinating. Non-emergency procedures are canceled and we’ve been told not to come in unless it is urgent.
She was a very poor person whose house was so shitty it just collapsed on its own. She was not sick enough to be admitted to a hospital so tried to isolate herself as best she she could.
She’s a fucking hero in my book (unless I am missing something/misunderstanding something…very likely to be the case).
If this doctor was providing mask exemption letters to parents without seeing and evaluating their children, his state medical board might see that as improper practice of medicine if someone made a formal complaint.
On a slightly different note, the Federation of State Medical Boards board of directors recently issued this statement:
"Physicians who generate and spread COVID-19 vaccine misinformation or disinformation are risking disciplinary action by state medical boards, including the suspension or revocation of their medical license. Due to their specialized knowledge and training, licensed physicians possess a high degree of public trust and therefore have a powerful platform in society, whether they recognize it or not. They also have an ethical and professional responsibility to practice medicine in the best interests of their patients and must share information that is factual, scientifically grounded and consensus-driven for the betterment of public health. Spreading inaccurate COVID-19 vaccine information contradicts that responsibility, threatens to further erode public trust in the medical profession and puts all patients at risk.”
So the Republican governor who says it’s wrong to “force” people to wear masks because it’s an overreach of government control … is using government control to force medical personnel to do dangerous work under horrific circumstances because reasons?