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.
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12 minutes ago, A Hit With The Ladies said:
(1) We don't have an "ED psych unit". If you're referring to admissions they'd be screened before getting admitted.
(2) Those charts look a lot better than New York's charts. We will be fine.
Of course we'll be fine. But that doesn't mean that certain precautions shouldn't be taken to help get us to that point of "fine," nor does it mean that being concerned as a society makes us hypochondriacs as you implied.
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.
My daughter’s 21 year old friend died last week. There have been MANY younger folks dying from this in the Northeast. It’s really sad.
A false equivalence. You not wearing a mask is nowhere near as dangerous to the public as drinking and driving. Enough is enough. We cannot keep catering to the rest of society forever. By next month people will stop wearing masks altogether. Which is great in my book. This is the land of the FREE and if you want to wear a mask for the rest of your life that is your choice. Individual liberty is sacrosanct here.
I think the comparison to drinking and driving was not that these are equivalent risks. But you know that. The idea is that our government frequently restricts personal behavior when that behavior might negatively impact others. It is an essential function of a non totalitarian, non fascist government. Individual liberty is always weighed against public safety.
Vehicle inspections, building codes are some common examples. As are laws that you need to wear clothing in public. Nobody ever died from seeing somebody's junk, yet we accept that this form of personal expression is curtailed legally. With the force of government. Possible fines, etc.
Of course we'll be fine. But that doesn't mean that certain precautions shouldn't be taken to help get us to that point of "fine," nor does it mean that being concerned as a society makes us hypochondriacs as you implied.
We've done more than enough at this point. Apparently the economy collapsing and having meat and other food shortages isn't sacrifice enough for some people. Time to move on with our lives already. Corona corona corona. We have other issues, too.
I think the comparison to drinking and driving was not that these are equivalent risks. But you know that. The idea is that our government frequently restricts personal behavior when that behavior might negatively impact others. It is an essential function of a non totalitarian, non fascist government. Individual liberty is always weighed against public safety.
Vehicle inspections, building codes are some common examples. As are laws that you need to wear clothing in public. Nobody ever died from seeing somebody's junk, yet we accept that this form of personal expression is curtailed legally. With the force of government. Possible fines, etc.
But, you know this.
LOL yeah "the force of government"... like cops are going to arrest and incarcerate people for not wearing masks, especially while there's a movement now to free most non-violent inmates from prison as it is. People that worried should quit trying to be control freaks on others' lives and quarantine themselves.
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.
I suggest your continuous political snipings are out of scope, however you actually voted.
Specializes in Advanced Practice Critical Care and Family Nursing.
I have to say this is one of the more interesting threads currently. Gives some excellent insight to the current debates of thought among front line workers. But if we continue taking away the liberties this country was founded upon where does it stop? Now personally I'm in full support of everyone wearing a mask until we figure this thing out. I work in the busiest COVID collection center in my region, and helped start the first series of drive through centers in my state. So that being said, I still witness first hand a loose variety of how many patients show up wearing a mask (even for their scheduled COVID test), of course before our front door Gestapo guest services force one on them, which I support also, without machine guns. Seems if the Kardashians are wearing a mask or not the night before dictates the trend more than anything.
Seems also the public find it more than acceptable to be forced to wear a mask in healthcare settings, but Walmart, (which if far more contaminated) is a safe place. And this is really a sign of herd mentality, denial, ignorance, or other psychological profundity which is more our fault as educators.
Even cheap gas stations post "no shoes, no shirt, no service". We may be quickly approaching an era of "no mask no service" signs, and that would be far more effective and American than some authoritarian legal fodder that will go bipartisan debate at every CNN or Fox commercial break, not to mention every nurse break room across American (which I liken to purgatory alla Dante's Inferno).
Want to get peoples attention, socially condition their Red Bull and McChicken privileges. But the moment we start lining the streets with armed guards and lining up Americans to wear anything, even a mask that may or may not help, we have become the Trump Gulag, and we are close enough to that hell already economically.
Yeah. So if you’re in dedicated stand-alone psych facility, then disregard as my question is making the same mistakes we swore we'd never make again. (Props to jerry jeff).
A Hit With The Ladies, BSN, RN
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(1) We don't have an "ED psych unit". If you're referring to admissions they'd be screened before getting admitted.
(2) Those charts look a lot better than New York's charts. We will be fine.