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South Dakota nurse says many dying patients still insist Covid-19 'not real'

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Re: South Dakota nurse says many dying patients still insist Covid-19 'not real'

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Post by jimkleiber »

My friend works in the covid ICU here in Michigan and told me yesterday that she's seeing a dramatic increase in patients who are getting angry at her and still believing that covid is not real. When she asks where they may have caught it, they sometimes say at a wedding with 100 people where no one was wearing masks.

I can't imagine how emotionally taxing it was to be a healthcare worker attending to people with covid in the beginning, but at least then they received a lot of gratitude from their patients. I cannot fathom how these healthcare workers must feel after 8 months of this and then getting yelled at by patients who don't think this is real. I almost don't even want to imagine how much pain they might be feeling.

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Post by whalesalad »

My wife and I just moved from Orange County, CA to Detroit, MI this last August.

We decided to drive the northern route. Heading through Vegas, Utah, Yellowstone and Montana. Then onward through the plains of North Dakota and Minnesota. Turning north we entered Wisconsin and finally the UP (Upper Peninsula) of Michigan. After a few days exploring we turned south to Detroit.

In Vegas the concern for masks started to wane. By Utah, no fucks were given and pretty much not a single fuck was given until we crossed the Mackinac Bridge into the lower peninsula of Michigan.

When I say no fucks were given - I mean that pretty much no one around me cared about wearing a mask, social distancing, etc. Hotels would participate out of corporate necessity. We drove hundreds and hundreds of miles sometimes and were the only people in stores with masks on. Sometimes I felt like an outsider alien, being stared at by the people around me. I was surprised yet not surprised at the same time.

So the surge and issues the comminuties up there are facing don't surprise me in the least.

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Post by pengaru »

djsumdog wrote: post #2

This feels like it's just to shame everyone based on very few eccentrics. I'm sure most people in SD agree COVID is real, but it's also not a very densely populated state with small cities, and the governors response seems appropriate. It's keep the economy from totally collapsing. I drove to Sioux Falls a few weeks ago, just to be some place normal. It was nice just being able to go into a brew pub or an indoor rest…

> I drove to Sioux Falls a few weeks ago, just to be some place normal. It was nice just being able to go into a brew pub or an indoor restaurant, and talk to people. Too bad it was only for a few days.

Frivolous travel for the express purpose of not social distancing during the throes of a pandemic... smh, what a prick.

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Post by pwinnski »

djsumdog wrote: post #2

This feels like it's just to shame everyone based on very few eccentrics. I'm sure most people in SD agree COVID is real, but it's also not a very densely populated state with small cities, and the governors response seems appropriate. It's keep the economy from totally collapsing. I drove to Sioux Falls a few weeks ago, just to be some place normal. It was nice just being able to go into a brew pub or an indoor rest…

A few eccentrics? Like someone who will, say, deliberately drive to an area without adequate legal orders in place in the middle of a sharp uptick in cases during a pandemic, just to "feel normal?"

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Post by sonotathrowaway »

rriepe wrote: post #10
StavrosK wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is her first-hand reporting that patients don't believe in COVID an unsubstantiated rumour?

It's either unsubstantiated or a HIPAA violation

Telling you uncomfortable truths isn’t a hipaa violation, as the law was not written to protect your feelings.

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Post by Retric »

rriepe wrote: post #10
StavrosK wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is her first-hand reporting that patients don't believe in COVID an unsubstantiated rumour?

It's either unsubstantiated or a HIPAA violation

That’s not how HIPAA works. There is a huge difference between knowing a specific person has a specific disease, and talking about a case without identifying the specific person.

A case study is very common and gives a great deal of information about the medical side of what someone has gone through, without identifying them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case_study

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Post by posix_compliant »

whalesalad wrote: post #12

My wife and I just moved from Orange County, CA to Detroit, MI this last August. We decided to drive the northern route. Heading through Vegas, Utah, Yellowstone and Montana. Then onward through the plains of North Dakota and Minnesota. Turning north we entered Wisconsin and finally the UP (Upper Peninsula) of Michigan. After a few days exploring we turned south to Detroit. In Vegas the concern for masks started to w…

Weird, I moved from SF to Philadelphia last week and most stores on route 80 required masks.

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Post by [deleted] »

posix_compliant wrote: post #19
whalesalad wrote: post #12

My wife and I just moved from Orange County, CA to Detroit, MI this last August. We decided to drive the northern route. Heading through Vegas, Utah, Yellowstone and Montana. Then onward through the plains of North Dakota and Minnesota. Turning north we entered Wisconsin and finally the UP (Upper Peninsula) of Michigan. After a few days exploring we turned south to Detroit. In Vegas the concern for masks started to w…

Weird, I moved from SF to Philadelphia last week and most stores on route 80 required masks.

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