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This virus is scary, especially with so many not following the rules and recommendations. Nurses COVID

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The only two stores that I go to are the grocery store and the gas station. People are not wearing a mask or gloves.

I asked one man at a grocery store, (who wasn't wearing a mask or gloves), "Aren't you scared about getting the coronavirus?" He said, "No, I've been to two other countries and haven't caught anything."

Then I see parents in the grocery stores with their child in the seat and they're holding onto the handle, and I was thinking, I hope that child will not catch anything. What are these people thinking?

I wish the president would say that everybody entering a store, gas station, & etc. has to wear a mask and gloves to enter. It is these people who are going to spread it to someone, and then that person spreads it to so and so, and on and on. This just showed me all these people that do not wear a mask do not care about children or the elderly. There are a lot of people in this world that don't care and I've seen it. SHAME ON THEM!!

I want to get back to socializing. I can't even go to church and be with my church family because of this virus. I miss being around them. I also miss being around my grandbabies and all my loved ones and friends.

My anxiety is through the roof! When I do go to these two places, I just get out start walking into the store like always and think, "Oh my gloves and my mask." Then I start talking to God, and say "Please DEAR LORD let people listen about wearing gloves and masks so other people don't get it and die."

We need to get this pandemic taken care of. I just think it should be mandatory for everybody that goes to the stores, gas stations, etc. to wear masks and gloves. And maybe we can get this thing under control and go back to a normal life.

I feel sorry for people out of work. Because some of them don't have the money for their bills. I'm sure it's been like a small vacation for them, but I would like for them to get back to their jobs and get the economy going again, so everybody is paying their bills correctly and not worrying.

HEROES, KEEP STAYING SAFE. NURSES, DOCTORS, & FRONTLINERS, YOU ARE THE BEST!! MAY GOD KEEP YOU SAFE FROM THIS PANDEMIC.

You deserve a wonderful vacation to wherever you want.

Small prayer... Please dear Lord Will you keep my brother safe as he is really in the front lines in the hospitals not just one but a few because he is a director of them. And he has diabetes. Keep you're umbrella over him so that he is safe. AMEN!

I hope that soon the president will make everybody wear gloves and mask until this virus is over.

THANK YOU!!

EDITED TO ADD

I found out that the President said the Coronavirus Committee recommended that everyone should wear masks in public and that it is up to the Governor of each state to make sure that this happens.

I don't think we are ready to open up businesses because people are not wearing masks. I know people need their money, and I miss going in restaurants, grocery stores, etc. without having to wear my mask.

Please, everyone, be careful!

This should be a wake-up call for the United States of America. None of us were prepared for this deadly virus.

I guarantee I will be stocking up on all kinds for items and be ready.

Just like we have to be ready and get our tornado precautions together during tornado season. Please businesses, I hope they do like everything they are supposed to so that we may not continue to spread this virus around. Good luck businesses I'm glad that you are getting to open. I'm just scared that it will still spread.

Everyone be safe and God bless you!

31 minutes ago, A Hit With The Ladies said:

You are free to wear a mask or whatever else YOU want. Go around telling others what to wear and what to do, and you're going to have a few expletive-laden words thrown right back at ya.

Hmmm. I don't think that's what Patrick Henry meant when he said "Give Me Liberty or Give me Death" to King James .

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Specializes in Psych.

King James? You mean King George, right?

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1 hour ago, adventure_rn said:

Granted, @A Hit With The Ladies, I know from your prior posts you think this is just "killing off the weakest" and "culling the herd;" I'm guessing you may not feel any personal responsibility for the well-being of the little old lady at the grocery store because her death is inevitable anyway... 

I see things like that and I often feel this country is just cursed.

Also, if people had spent any time in Elmhurst Queens, the original epicenter in NY it would put to bed this myth that only little old folks, or obese trainwrecks are the only one's getting sick and dying. it is a first and second generation hub filled with people from India, Pakistan and South America. They aren't overweight and hypertensive; they're vegetarian, or predominantly so and they probably walked more in a week than most burbians do in six months.

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46 minutes ago, InTheLongRun said:

I see things like that and I often feel this country is just cursed.

Also, if people had spent any time in Elmhurst Queens, the original epicenter in NY it would put to bed this myth that only little old folks, or obese trainwrecks are the only one's getting sick and dying. it is a first and second generation hub filled with people from India, Pakistan and South America. They aren't overweight and hypertensive; they're vegetarian, or predominantly so and they probably walked more in a week than most burbians do in six months.

Yeah, I honestly think that the people who are most vulnerable are the people with 'essential,' often lower-paying jobs. They're the ones seeing hundreds of people a day, and they have even fewer protections than nurses. (They also tend to have more comorbid conditions related to living circumstances, rely more on public transit, have fewer PTO/sick days, worse access to healthcare, and many other things that put them at higher risk). However, I like the little old lady example because it's more tangible and empathic; if these people don't care about the well-being of a little old lady, they definitely aren't going to care about the well-being of poor people...

Seriously, if you're going to go to the grocery store or get a hair cut, I don't get what the fuss is about. You are putting your hairdresser/cashier/whoever at much higher risk without one. Putting on a mask takes two seconds and can literally save someone's life. Refusing to do so because of a minor discomfort, or just out of principle, seems so selfish.

I'm all for re-opening the economy and allowing people to patronize businesses, but if we're going to do it, we need to do it safely. Masks are a cheap, easy way to protect people. I don't understand why people get so fired up about it; they're asking you to put on a mask, not denounce your religion and sacrifice your first-born child. Get a grip. ?

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1 hour ago, A Hit With The Ladies said:

King James? You mean King George, right?

Technically it was given to the Second Virginia Convention in St. John's Church in Richmond, but yes, you are correct.

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1 hour ago, adventure_rn said:

Yeah, I honestly think that the people who are most vulnerable are the people with 'essential,' often lower-paying jobs. They're the ones seeing hundreds of people a day, and they have even fewer protections than nurses. (They also tend to have more comorbid conditions related to living circumstances, rely more on public transit, have fewer PTO/sick days, worse access to healthcare, and many other things that put them at higher risk). However, I like the little old lady example because it's more tangible and empathic; if these people don't care about the well-being of a little old lady, they definitely aren't going to care about the well-being of poor people...

I'm all for re-opening the economy and allowing people to patronize businesses, but if we're going to do it, we need to do it safely. Masks are a cheap, easy way to protect people. I don't understand why people get so fired up about it; they're asking you to put on a mask, not denounce your religion and sacrifice your first-born child. Get a grip. ?

Many of the affected in Queens were in solidly middle class jobs with healthy lifestyles. Elmhurst Queens, after all, is not the South Bronx. Certainly public transit would put them in risk of exposure. Yet in many cases the victims were middle-aged folks with decent jobs and no health conditions. Hardly people who were on death's doorstep anyway.

I think people have a way of thinking that only poor people or only old people or only people in bad health .. so therefore I'm safe and why do I need to bother with precautions to keep this from burning through the community.

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Specializes in Pediatrics, Pediatric Float, PICU, NICU.
20 hours ago, A Hit With The Ladies said:

This is America, not North Korea, not Saudi Arabia. When the government goes around dictating what people must wear in public, we are no longer a free country but a totalitarian one.

Here in Houston, this twentysomething county judge said she'd impose a $1000 fine if people weren't wearing masks in public. Thankfully, the police said they wouldn't levy the fine. I hope our governor just overrides her and says "no fines at all" already. We don't have to all go Bubble Boy to cater to hypochondriacs in our society.

This type of mind frame is what I hate about living in Texas in general. She's 29 and her age is irrelevant. And this isn't about catering to hypochondriacs, so no need to gaslight.

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Specializes in Emergency.
14 hours ago, A Hit With The Ladies said:

You are free to wear a mask or whatever else YOU want. Go around telling others what to wear and what to do, and you're going to have a few expletive-laden words thrown right back at ya.

These are 2 charts showing deaths in the houston area. Does that affect how you feel about mask wearing?

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Specializes in Psych.
1 hour ago, JadedCPN said:

This type of mind frame is what I hate about living in Texas in general. She's 29 and her age is irrelevant. And this isn't about catering to hypochondriacs, so no need to gaslight.

It's completely relevant. How do you put a friggin' kid with zero legal (let alone judicial) experience or education as the head of the most powerful position in the 4th largest city in America? I voted straight-ticket Dem in 2018 but whenever she's on the ballot I sure as heck will be voting for whoever can replace her.

So your graphs basically show that forcible masking is having no effect at curbing Corona growth. Thank you.

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Specializes in Pediatrics, Pediatric Float, PICU, NICU.
1 minute ago, A Hit With The Ladies said:

It's completely relevant. How do you put a friggin' kid with zero legal (let alone judicial) experience or education as the head of the most powerful position in the 4th largest city in America? I voted straight-ticket Dem in 2018 but whenever she's on the ballot I sure as heck will be voting for whoever can replace her.

I'm not arguing for or against her at all, but you pointed out her age as if that made a difference and it doesn't - she's a grown woman, not a kid.

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Specializes in Psych.

Age certainly makes a difference. You should have plenty of experience in order to be in a position of power like a judgeship. I wouldn't want someone fresh off of residency to be Surgeon General or someone who just got out of Boot Camp promoted to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs.

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Specializes in Emergency.
10 minutes ago, A Hit With The Ladies said:

So your graphs basically show that forcible masking is having no effect at curbing Corona growth. Thank you.

What do you think those charts would look like without masking? I don’t actually expect to change your mind as your posts do reveal a concrete mindset.
I know you work in-pt psych. If that’s hospital based, I would suggest seeing if you could float down to cover a shift in the ED psych unit. Maybe get a little closer to the sharp end.

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