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Happens when you reduce your revenue intake and "only the little people pay taxes". Also, not to get b/p up too high, but these numbers are before we just spent another 4 trillion sending Americans a 1200 check (which I was suspect more intended to...

I think the idea was to flatten the curve and offer time to develop a vaccine.. The only fly in the ointment is that a vaccine is still a long ways away, as are definitive treatments , advanced retrospective analysis of high volumes of cases. we do...

Lysol-Gate. I swear, you just can't make this stuff up. ::facepalm::

if you're perseverant you should be able to find one. remember nothing comes easy anymore for most people.

So sorry you had this experience early in your career . My two cents: You would hardly be the first one to decide bedside nursing wasn't your cup of tea. As others have pointed out your education /experience is valuable in an entire host of other set...

It's quite rich that people who are off in other threads insisting that even as the national infection approaches 1m confirmed cases and the death toll approaches 55k with no end in site, no discussion can be allowed about the Trump Administrations ...

Exactly right. These people likely have children and homes they own (and quite possibly are staring at an underwater mortgage in the near future). Picking up and going somewhere else is easy if you're single and renting. Otherwise not so much.

This was very hard to read, but as others have indicated, no surprise to any of us familiar with LTC facilities which are understaffed, under resourced and weakly regulated (or at least the enforcement of the regulations).

I don't know about that and as he's told us, he's so obviously " the healthiest president ever!!"... Still, by the looks of things, it might do him some good to curb his McDonald's intake.

actually they most certainly have throughout this thread with one person ever referring to them as just being stored until they passed, as if they were an inconvenient societal nuisance. another person implied only the elderly in institutions with f...

Understandable, it is frustrating. as nurses we inherently want to fix things and it's particularly difficult when we can't. I possibly mentally recited the Serenity Prayer hundreds of times with my own aging parent over the years and feel sure I m...

Hey, just so long as you got a smile out of it. We can all use them in these times.

Agreed. I was referring to the defenders of the caravans of mouth breathers who have descended on state halls and city centers across the country to call the Governors who have been working tirelessly to save lives "Nazis" and otherwise do the biddi...

It does to me and I know I keep harping on the wet markets, but this is at least the THIRD lethal virus to come out of there and the most contagious by far, there is no reason to believe it is the last whatsoever. Even the Chinese government has fina...

Thank you for better expressing my own reaction. It is a Faustian Bargain at best to be willing to sacrifice your seniors along with other institutionalized populations prisons to psych wards and effectively anyone 39 and over who has so much as hyp...

Ha. They're welcome to pay off my debts too, tho so far no takers. At minimum, 2 year community colleges for trade degrees, including but not limited to medical, should be free of charge. That's not a particular expensive feat and would more than pa...

also one of the major networks, whose primary demographic is the highest risk population we have (older folks with medical conditions) was actively convincing their viewers it was all just another hoax - all the way up to about the 3rd week of Mar...

Actually at least 70% of the US debt is American owned with the remaining approximately 30% foreign - with China and Japan at top followed by Ireland. This easily verifiable on the US Treasury website or the Statistical Abstract of the United States.

right but even acknowledging I can give as good as anyone when a partisan food fight erupts, the honest question is this. is anyone really doing what you are charging OR could it be the person at the helm of the Federal Response and Resources happens...

Well, she isn't in charge and she's been a private citizen since 2015. Last I looked it's 2020 so there's no reason to even bring her name up in discussion of anything that's happened since and the only time it seems to come up is when the far right ...

Oh, come now. No, it isn't hardly. And I suspect what really irks him or her is that s/he is unable to EVER say anything regardless how factually accurate without two or three of you melting down and turning it into a food fight.

Indeed. left facebook some time ago for these reasons exactly.

You probably won't believe this, but I never wanted to make it "about" Trump. An honest assessment of what happened to get us here , and what needs to be done to get us out that we aren't addressing is impossible if we can't acknowledge the failures...

I wouldn't lose too much sleep over it. I wouldn't use the Daily Mail for toilet paper, but the Fortune opinion cited a scientist discussing an old concern that that a virus *could jump out of a lab rather than providing any evidence it did. Throw ...

I don't want it to either, at least not for the partisan joy of dinging one party or the other for the sake of doing so , but I'm also not going to dance around the hard facts because it upsets some hyperpartisan who can't handle any criticism of the...