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What are y'all's thoughts on the many COVID-19 vaccines being tested? Safe vs unsafe. Which one do you think will be most effective? Do you think COVID-19 will mutate faster than the vaccines could be made? Any other thoughts. https://www.webmd.com/l...

I heard someone say it is hard for nurses to get mental health help because it shows on their back ground checks and will cause them to not get hired. Anyone know if this is true? If so, this is really sad, and seems like it would put patients more ...

I'm going to say upfront that I haven't read this entire thread, so if what I am about to say has been said, forgive me. I wonder if you just need to try working with a different population. Kids just aren't my thing. I would bawl at work daily, wh...

If you were right, you might have a point. You are not right, and therefore don't have a valid point.

Don't believe everything you learn in public school. Confederates wanted to succeed from the Union, which was within their rights. The Union did not want them too. Period. Confederates were no more traitors or white supremacists than people in th...

I personally, in my town, know of an instance where white police unjustly shot and killed 2 white men. It didn't even make the news past one article in the local paper. I have not managed to finish all the videos about the Atlanta shooting (yet) an...

Right, I forget that 2009 wasn't the first H1N1 outbreak (guess my age is showing ?). So they were well on their way for a vaccine before 2009, and it is not comparable to the COVID-19 timeline at all. Forgive my stupidity, and please don't alert th...

I, like every other person (I believe), like to keep my tax dollars in my pocket. However, I believe that defunding the police, along with all the other crazy things I've heard, equals having police officers who do not feel confident, do not feel saf...

It seems like the world is turning into a scary place for the police. I hear that they are trying to "defund" them, and also making it harder for them to win lawsuits against them. It seems like they are setting things up so that no one will want t...

That is a good article, askater112. I was young during H1N1, but they came out with a safe vaccine for it pretty quickly, in a year and a half, right? Was this d/t how it was just another flu strain?

How long do you think it will take after a vaccine comes out before we are able to know if it is truly safe?

WOW!, I'd never heard of this. This is really cool. More people need to think like you these days, Hillbilly RN! Forgive me for being naive toomuchbaloney, but do they really do this?

You did good. I enjoyed what you had to say, Hillbilly RN. It is sad, but know we are struggling together. You described a lot of what I and my family feel, and our anxieties as well.

Most of us don't feel this way about your life, Hillbilly RN. I appreciate the years of service you gave. I wish we could have been smarter about this from the start and saved the thousands of lives that we possibly could have. I have family membe...

I agree with this post.

Yes, I get your point. Some should move on back to normal. Go around without a mask, forget social distancing, pretend everything is okay. Then you will find out how very wrong you are as you die off. The caring, wise population will be left, reli...

Removing stitches is my favorite, staples too. Ear flushing is only satisfying for me if huge chunk comes out, love that. Don't think I've found a least favorite yet. Clipping toenails can also be cool.

Why not with their families? When did we decide they weren't worth our time? They are smarter than us, wiser than us, and loved and cared for us. They earned the same. They deserve a better more honored place in society than you do. Where can we ...

I do this, but worse. I catch myself constantly checking for cases to have come up in my prison as if that justifies my leaving, as if I need something more than what's going on to justify it. Then I feel guilty because I really don't want anyone t...

This sounds like my situation. I work per diem at a prison. My mother was horrified at the COVID-19 news, she has multiple health conditions, and I left pretty much for her. It is scary. I feel guilty all the time, all my coworkers are working har...

I have not been a nurse long and have never worked through an epidemic like this before. If a nurse starts showing symptoms of covid-19 while at work, will she be sent home to be quarantined? Will she be quarantined at work so as not to spread it on ...

Will there come a time when they CAN force you to work? Or where your license will have corrective action if you quit work when the nation is counting on you? On the news they are comparing it to WW2. Can they "draft" nurses, or arrest them for refu...

What about family members? I am currently caring for my great aunt with a compromised immune system who is in her 90's and another family member who is older with asthma. They are of the group that have been ordered to stay home and not expose themse...

That's interesting. Why would they temporarily release prisoners? Is it because they are immune deficient? It would suck to later be picked back up.

I think you would like it. I took a job in corrections because it was available and the pay was nice. Totally surprised that I loved it! I was a new grad with CNA and CMT experience in an Alzheimer's unit, which I loved, so I had some psych back g...