As healthcare workers struggle
Funny how states and provinces that are particularly heavy on the anti-vax trend are also heavy on the getting Covid trend. Alberta for instance:
A surge in coronavirus cases has pushed the healthcare system in the Canadian province of Alberta to the verge of collapse, as healthcare workers struggle against mounting exhaustion and a growing anti-vaccine movement in the region.
More and more cases, so let’s get more and more people campaigning against vaccinations. Brilliant. As the fire consumes more and more of the house, throw more and more stones at the firefighters.
The province warned this week that its ICU capacity was strained, with more people requiring intensive care than any other point during the pandemic – nearly all of them unvaccinated.
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Alberta has long boasted of its loose coronavirus restrictions – including advertising the previous months as the “best summer ever” as it rolled back those few restrictions. It has also been the site of North America’s highest caseloads.
Weird thing to boast about under the circumstances. “Look at us, we’re the best at letting people get the deadly virus!”
In a province with a long history of skepticism towards government, the pandemic has become fertile ground for protests and anti-vaccine rhetoric, including from elected officials, firefighters and police officers. During the ongoing federal election, the People’s Party of Canada, a fringe rightwing party that has come out against public health measures has seen its largest support base in rural Alberta.
That skepticism towards masks and vaccines has come at a steep cost, say frontline workers.
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In recent weeks, a number of anti-vaccine protests have been held across the country, including out front of hospitals in Calgary and Edmonton, compounding the exhaustion and frustration of frontline healthcare workers.
“I don’t have the energy to make sense of it any more,” said the nurse. “I’m barely functioning as it is, because we’re pouring from the cup that has a hole. We never get to fill it.”
Instead, nurses say they are left pleading with a narrow minority of the public that increasingly is ending up in the hospital.
And they get told it’s all their fault.
I think that between COVID and Climate Change, we’re going to end up “freedoming” ourselves to death.
While there have been some issues with health care over the decades, some things that are ethically questionable or just plain wrong, the overall trend of health care has been positive. It is the damned far right and far left that are to blame, as they are able to elevate a single incident or a few incidents and make people believe they are the norm. “Science doesn’t know everything”, they claim. Right, and scientists (most of them) know that. The proper answer to that is “And you don’t know anything”.
I will admit to the blame to media; there have been a number of media outlets spreading nonsense, and the ones that are not are whispering in a storm, rather than shouting and calling out lies. They don’t have the guts to tell people the truth loudly enough, and they too often play the “both sides now” issue.
These people are insane.
Does Josh ever come out and explain WHY he blames the medical profession? I’m really curious about how someone can continue to state these “opinions” based on something that I can’t see. I understand some suspicion of the vaccines based on distrust of the pharmaceutical companies, but skeptical people have access to find out if their speific objections are valid. Just hating pharmaceuticals because they make too many anti-depressants and ED medications and charge unreal prices for insulin is not being skeptical.
But what Josh is going goes way beyond that, blaming the medical professtionals for, what, exactly? How are they responsible? I may have to go back on Twitter to get my answers.
The only ones I can think of that are to blame are the ones to who don’t vaccinate.
I don’t know if he ever explains it from the ground up, so to speak – but he’s in a deep rage over masking and all other moves to deal with the pandemic. He doesn’t really explain that either, that I’ve seen, he just echoes the ranting of others. Somehow public health measures are part of the Borderline Personality Disorder takeover of everything, and Biden is sheer evil, and Trump is flawed but vastly better than Biden, and by the way Josh’s mother Josh’s mother Josh’s mother, also Joan Crawford, also Madonna. It’s a compelling argument, however incomplete.
All the peices of the jigsaw puzzle are there, in other words. But none of them are for the same puzzle.
That’s about right. A short list of cranky obsessions, that get cranked over & over again to infinity and beyond.