Cdn "journalist" blames Nurses for covid spikes

CaffeinePOQ4HPRN, BSN, MSN, LPN, RN · May 25, 2020

5 minutes ago, toomuchbaloney said:
Regional swaths of the USA are mired in political double speak about mitigation needs and efforts. Roughly 70% of states have significantly cut state public health programming for over more than a decade. We have chaotic federal leadership on the subject. It's a terrible time to have bad political leadership.

Our government also made cuts and enacted a hiring freeze to public health last year. Our current public health departments/nurses are bloody exhausted and struggling. Yet, no one is attacking the government who is the root at the cause for any "design flaws"... why are nurses and healthcare provides the constant target for the failings of leadership and bean counters in suits?

CaffeinePOQ4HPRN, BSN, MSN, LPN, RN · May 25, 2020

26 minutes ago, chare said:
Do you have anything other than the included tweet to base any of this on?

Yes, I do! At best, her expertise stops with a book she wrote about the perils of being a bridesmaid from a wedding she was kicked out of. You want public health advice from this person?! LOL. People need to stay in their lanes of expertise.

I'd rather hear from urban planners and medical experts than this potato head. She's defending a privileged set of society who is not disenfranchised nor homeless; and, have no reason to not acknowledge public health protocols during a global pandemic... effectively endangering the lives of others. I'm growing tired of armchair experts.

toomuchbaloney · May 25, 2020

1 hour ago, CaffeinePOQ4HPRN said:
Our government also made cuts and enacted a hiring freeze to public health last year. Our current public health departments/nurses are bloody exhausted and struggling. Yet, no one is attacking the government who is the root at the cause for any "design flaws"... why are nurses and healthcare provides the constant target for the failings of leadership and bean counters in suits?

Your government isn't as openly antagonistic and politically divisive as the American federal government.

CaffeinePOQ4HPRN, BSN, MSN, LPN, RN · May 25, 2020

2 hours ago, toomuchbaloney said:
Your government isn't as openly antagonistic and politically divisive as the American federal government.

There is nearly no point for the considerable and exhausting efforts of health care when people don't want to listen and the government won't police them. How are people being given the freedom to endanger others this way? It's a criminal offence to spread HIV, so maybe we should be prosecuting these "covidiots" the same way. There's only so much nurses can do... epecially when hoards of hideous people like this crusty journalist are making excuses for behaviour like this:

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/2020/05/24/mostly-white-covidiots-at-trinity-bellwoods-think-the-rules-dont-apply-to-them-theyre-right.html?li_source=LI&li_medium=star_web_ymbii

toomuchbaloney · May 25, 2020

44 minutes ago, CaffeinePOQ4HPRN said:
There is nearly no point for the considerable and exhausting efforts of health care when people don't want to listen and the government won't police them. How are people being given the freedom to endanger others this way? It's a criminal offence to spread HIV, so maybe we should be prosecuting these "covidiots" the same way. There's only so much nurses can do... epecially when hoards of hideous people like this crusty journalist are making excuses for behaviour like this:
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/2020/05/24/mostly-white-covidiots-at-trinity-bellwoods-think-the-rules-dont-apply-to-them-theyre-right.html?li_source=LI&li_medium=star_web_ymbii

As we are all aware, the American covidiots are encouraged by the POTUS himself.

Kooky Korky, BSN, RN · May 27, 2020

On 5/24/2020 at 9:38 PM, CaffeinePOQ4HPRN said:
EXACTLY! At this point there is ZERO excuse.
This "journalist" Siri Agrell thinks these thousands of (majority Caucasian) kids should get a pass because kids will be kids although these kids are in their 20s, come from enough privilege to know better (ex. don't have literacy issues), and are clearly comfortable endangering the lives of others. I think the truth of this is to Siri Agrell is that the only lives that matter are white ones. She's a sick, sick person.

Why is race the issue? Perhaps the only lives that matter to you are non-white.

Emergent, RN · May 27, 2020

So, a person tweets something? Big deal. Some random person's opinion is irrelevant.

I don't use Twitter. Why waste more time? Does it give people a feeling of being friends with celebrities, to read their often impulsively written thoughts?

CaffeinePOQ4HPRN, BSN, MSN, LPN, RN · May 27, 2020

3 hours ago, Kooky Korky said:
Why is race the issue? Perhaps the only lives that matter to you are non-white.

It is an issue of privilege (which non-caucasian people don't benefit from), and she's defending against holding a specific population of society accountable for endangering others due to their privilege. That is a problem, a pervasive problem. Something many people do to the detriment of others. Ex. think police brutality, etc... it all starts with stuff like this, giving certain people a "pass" while criminalizing others for speaking up or trying to defend themselves. This article might explain the problem a bit better:

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/2020/05/24/mostly-white-covidiots-at-trinity-bellwoods-think-the-rules-dont-apply-to-them-theyre-right.html?li_source=LI&li_medium=star_web_ymbii

Daisy4RN · May 27, 2020

1 hour ago, CaffeinePOQ4HPRN said:
It is an issue of privilege (which non-caucasian people don't benefit from), and she's defending against holding a specific population of society accountable for endangering others due to their privilege. That is a problem, a pervasive problem. Something many people do to the detriment of others. Ex. think police brutality, etc... it all starts with stuff like this, giving certain people a "pass" while criminalizing others for speaking up or trying to defend themselves. This article might explain the problem a bit better:
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/2020/05/24/mostly-white-covidiots-at-trinity-bellwoods-think-the-rules-dont-apply-to-them-theyre-right.html?li_source=LI&li_medium=star_web_ymbii

There are plenty of non caucasian people who have/are privileged. Saying only white people have privilege is a racist comment.

And btw, I dont see how this so called journalist is blaming nurses, but I do think it was written to stir things up.

JadedCPN, BSN, RN · May 27, 2020

Yes Caucasian privilege is real and absolutely does exist but tends to be denied by people who benefit from that unspoken privilege, ie Caucasian people themselves.

That being said, I'm not following where you're going from this, maybe you didn't provide enough information? Yes her tweet was stupid but I feel I missed the point that specifically blamed nurses and frontline workers for the issues?

heron, ASN, RN · May 27, 2020

4 hours ago, Kooky Korky said:
Why is race the issue? Perhaps the only lives that matter to you are non-white.

Where did you get that???

JadedCPN, BSN, RN · May 27, 2020

42 minutes ago, Daisy4RN said:
There are plenty of non caucasian people who have/are privileged. Saying only white people have privilege is a racist comment.
And btw, I dont see how this so called journalist is blaming nurses, but I do think it was written to stir things up.

There is a difference between being privileged, and the subconscious biasedness that is prevalent, known as white privilege. I believe the OP is referring to the latter.