Sick Of Ignorant People Not Believing In COVID-19, Nurse Quits Her Job In The COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit
The very first case of COVID-19 was identified almost a year ago—back in December of 2019. Since then, more than 56.2 million cases have been confirmed, with more than 1.34 million dying from it. And for some mysterious reason, even to this day, a vast number of people still refuse to believe that this virus is a serious one and it’s not playing games.
A nurse named Ashley (TheBlondeRN on Twitter) from Texas knows the situation from first-hand experience. The woman used to work in the OR, but recently, she was transferred to the COVID intensive care unit. After working with COVID-19 patients for a while, the woman decided to quit her job, and apparently, people’s ignorance and the amounts of disinformation surrounding the virus were the reason behind the tough decision she had to make.
Recently, Ashley was transferred to the COVID-19 intensive care unit
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Recently, Ashley decided to go on Twitter and publicly answer the common question she’s been asked quite a few times after quitting her job. “I resigned from my job last week and I’ve been asked several times, ‘What was the breaking point?’ I don’t know a specific one, but I’ll share this,” the woman wrote in her post. In the following tweets, Ashley explains the reasoning behind her decision.
After some time working there, the nurse decided to quit, and now she’s sharing her experience on Twitter
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Currently, her Twitter thread has over 102k likes and more than 32k retweets. Thousands of people felt touched and shocked by Ashley’s story, while at the same time being thankful for her decision to share it with the world.
Here’s what people on Twitter thought about Ashley’s story
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Share on FacebookI don't understand anti maskers. Yes I know that you don't want to wear one. But not wearing one will endanger a lot of lives. Stupid, selfish anti maskers
Even our own elected representatives are spreading the lies that COVID is overblown and is just a flu -- and they have no excuse, they have first-hand government information stating how serious it is.
No. It's not just "elected officials." It is REPUBLICANS. Let's not pretend.
Load More Replies...THIS. THis nurse. Yes. After 3 months hiatus, I am back at the local hospital. I was losing it. We all were. I've been back since September. I got an MD but never went for the boards b/c my training was enough to break me. I just do patient information and advocacy. I see families who won't admit it's real, who say we're killing Grandma in the ICU, try to bust in ---- if they're not stealing PPE to sell online. We have ot have volunteers stand guard so no one yanks the hand sanitizer dispensers off the walls. THIS IS KILLING PEOPLE AT NEARLY TEN TIMES THE RATE OF FLU SO FAR... Quarter-million dead as of today, I read. OUr infectious disease briefing today said we'll hit 300-310K by end of the year. That's only six weeks more... And another 50-70K dead to come. For the love of God, life and country, TAKE IT SERIOUSLY, then take it even more seriously. Peace andSTAY SAFE
@WildBerry... I am not a licensed practitioner. I admit it. I have an MD. I hold a medical degree. That is not the same thing. I make the distinction. Ergo, your "HA!" makes me embarrassed *for* you. Honestly, your gloating makes me wonder if you ever learned about psychology... and are in DENIAL about your own pathology.
Load More Replies...The stupidity is spreading like Covid. We are fighting 2 pandemics at this moment. And they both are dangerous and lethal. If only the deniers would be affected and die, it would be an enormous and very welcome cleaning of the gene pool, but as we all know not only the deniers die from Covid-19.
In my country (Indonesia) still many people disbelieve in covid too... While my friends that still work as nurse all having the worst time in their career.. We already lost two of our senior in nursing school on the last 2 month.. If you never seeing a covid patient with bad condition, it is because of our struggle to keep this pandemi at bay..
They are not. They are still pulling the same dirty tricks now.
Load More Replies...Stories like this are terrifying... and common. I firmly believe in freedom of speech but when lies are literally killing people, there should be consequences for the people willfully spreading them.
Yeah, freedom is speech is entirely a gimmick. Entirely. Every other country on earth gets by better by having meaningful and sensible censorship.
Load More Replies...I read a very old description of how people reacted in Russia during a plageu outbreak about 200-300 years ago. It was pretty much exactly like the reaction of Covidiots today: denial, blaming the government, conspiracy theories, more denial, protests in the streets etc. It doesn't matter how much our technology evolves, because we obviously don't.
Interesting. I do wonder how much of an impact the internet/cable "news" has to this though. I don't think it would be as dire if these conspiracy theorists couldn't congregate so easily online, and if companies didn't control the narrative and spread around propaganda.
Load More Replies...my mom used to work in the hospital she does not work there any more also i just wanted to ask how do you follow people on here
You click on their name which takes you to their profile and on their profile will be a follow option.
Load More Replies...I live in a basement apt with my elderly Greek landlords upstairs. Beautiful apt and well kept home. These people care, are religious and courteous. The virus has shown me their true colours. As I am leaving Friday I bump into them and she tells me they are attending a Sunday wedding. Now the wife is coughing away and is clearly sick with something. I tell her my brother in laws father has just passed away from Covid at his nursing home and maybe she should be careful and not go to the wedding. Her response. Covid is fake. It is now Sunday and they are having about 30 people over from the wedding upstairs. This has been going on since the beginning with numerous BBQ's and get together. I cannot wait to find another job so I can move away from these crazy people.
A lot of moderately intelligent people have been saying for years: “I wish there was a disease that killed stupid people.” Now there is, but we were too stupid to realize we should have been more specific and wished for it to kill ONLY stupid people.
Unfortunately this only ends one way for us folks in the US and that's with alot' more deaths. We have half the population that doesn't believe this is a serious illness. Actual Covid-19 patients in hospitals that don't believe it's real. We can blame Republicans for this attitude (which they are) but what the hell is wrong with our society that people are cool with all these deaths?! We're about at 2000 daily deaths we can likely add another 100k before New Years. We've allowed the most ignorant to have such an influential voice in this country. We're now paying the price.
Society was given an education that was picked apart by Republicans. That’s literally how they even still have a voter base. By creating the least intelligent population in American history. It’s literally their fault. It always is.
Load More Replies...I feel for all the front line workers, not an easy situation to be in. Doesn’t help when the government doesn’t help your cause and actually makes it worse. I am super grateful to our local government, they have done exceptional work during this crisis. I can’t imagine how difficult it is to make these unpopular decisions but it is necessary to be getting on top of the virus.
The people who say that coronavirus is like the flu make no sense to me. My father doesn't leave his house unless he is going to the doctor because that's how dangerous this illness is. I live in a small town of 11,000 people and we have 2,000 cases of coronavirus. Yet we still have people that want to go to restaurants and don't where masks when they go in stores. I work at a pizza buffet place and we have people who are upset because our dining room is closed right now and they can only pick up food.
I’m a perfectly healthy and pretty young person, and I don’t leave my house either. It’s too big of a risk, for anyone.
Load More Replies...He's not wrong about taking vitamins, though. I read that 80-90% of the people with covid were found to be vitamin D deficient.
It can't hurt to take vitamin D, but I wouldn't rely on that along. By the way, out of curiosity, how many people in general are vitamin D deficient?
Load More Replies...If she quit over this, then the covid unbelievers are winning.
They may feel like winners while dying or dealing with long-term health issues, loss of family and friends, etc.
Load More Replies...Look. Folks don't believe covid is a real concern for a Number of reasons. For some they've had a family member with a very mild case and so base their understanding on limited second hand experience. Some see curated news or facebook posts. Some just don't want to believe there is such a scary thing out there and denial is easier. Some folks are poor, who have used alternative 'remedies' all their life. Garlic and onions worked for generations, by golly it will work on this. But how ever a person has gained their understanding of covid. Please don't judge them as stupid. Recognize them as having come to their options logically (however faulty and selective that logic is). It is our job to educate the incompletely educated. But to do it in a way that prioritizes the patients autonomy. We'd never make fun of someone who never learned to read and is dealing with illiteracy, would we? We also wouldn't take it personally that there are so many illiterate folks and get burnt out about it
Stupid is a word with a proper usage. Calling a covid denier “stupid” might not be nice, but it’s linguistically accurate. What you’re advocating for is to just phase out the word entirely, which really has nothing to do with garlic or covid.
Load More Replies...She said she is a secretary in hospital administration. It was up above so you would t have seen it.
Load More Replies...A few facts: 1) Masks don't work 2) Asymptomatic transmission is a myth 3) At no time in history have healthy people been locked up to deal with a virus with a 99.997% survival rate. 4) 6% of Covid deaths are only from Covid 5) This is only about control. 6)Mandating masks has not kept death rates down anywhere. From the CDC, 85% of people who "always" or "often" wore masks were the percentage who contracted Covid. People who "never" or "rarely" wore a mask were the least likely to get Covid at 7.8%. Another study showed of 20 U.S. states that have never ordered people to wear face masks indoors and out have dramatically lower COVID-19 death rates than the 30 states that have mandated masks. Most of the no-mask states have COVID-19 death rates below 20 per 100,000 population, and none have a death rate higher than 55. All 13 states that have death rates higher than 55 are states that have required the wearing of masks in all public places. It has not protected them.
Maybe they will change the title, but where does she quit her job? Heyyyy... is this fake news?
Very sad that people don't believe in covid, but for her to quit her job -a job which saves people's lives - because some people are fools, is utterly ridiculous snd will exacerbate the problem. Should a cancer specialist quit because some people dont think smoking and sunbeds cancer? Of course not. I feel sorry for her but quitting is not the answer. The right to medical care should not be based on beliefs of the patient.
She has free will. It isn't her duty to risk her life for people who didn't do all they could to avoid getting ill. There are many who think that people who refuse to wear masks and socially distance should sign a contract refusing care if they get sick.
Load More Replies...1. I'm sorry for your loss. 2. Don't ever let a patient stay in the hospital with any valuables. 3. Staff should have made a "Valuables and Personal Belongings List" when he was admitted. If the ring is listed, your family must be compensated for its loss. Talk to the hospital administration and hire a lawyer to write the hospital a letter demanding payment for the ring.
Load More Replies...And the last part is wrong. We have to do our best for EVERY patient regardless of their choices or believes, to do otherwise would be unethical.
Load More Replies...Covid is WORSE than the flu. For example on average 300,000-600,000 people die annually from the flu, but in just ONE single year we have had over 1.34 million covid deaths. The infection rate for the flu from one person is 1.3, yet covid is 2-2.5. Incubation time for the flu is 1-4 days yet Covid is 1-14 days. Flu hospitalisation rates is 2% and covid is 19%, death rate for flu is .1% yet Covid is 1-3.4%. The other big difference is that we still don’t know the long term side effects of Covid.
Load More Replies...She said there were many reasons and she relayed just this one. And who the hell are you to criticize another person's personal life choices.
Load More Replies...If we are smart we make a plan in case this happens again. The frustration you are feeling is normal and everything you were use to has completely changed. You say we overreacted, when we didn't have leadership to tell us to come together and defeat this new enemy. Yes you "can" survive, but you won't be entirely the same afterwards.
Load More Replies...I don't understand anti maskers. Yes I know that you don't want to wear one. But not wearing one will endanger a lot of lives. Stupid, selfish anti maskers
Even our own elected representatives are spreading the lies that COVID is overblown and is just a flu -- and they have no excuse, they have first-hand government information stating how serious it is.
No. It's not just "elected officials." It is REPUBLICANS. Let's not pretend.
Load More Replies...THIS. THis nurse. Yes. After 3 months hiatus, I am back at the local hospital. I was losing it. We all were. I've been back since September. I got an MD but never went for the boards b/c my training was enough to break me. I just do patient information and advocacy. I see families who won't admit it's real, who say we're killing Grandma in the ICU, try to bust in ---- if they're not stealing PPE to sell online. We have ot have volunteers stand guard so no one yanks the hand sanitizer dispensers off the walls. THIS IS KILLING PEOPLE AT NEARLY TEN TIMES THE RATE OF FLU SO FAR... Quarter-million dead as of today, I read. OUr infectious disease briefing today said we'll hit 300-310K by end of the year. That's only six weeks more... And another 50-70K dead to come. For the love of God, life and country, TAKE IT SERIOUSLY, then take it even more seriously. Peace andSTAY SAFE
@WildBerry... I am not a licensed practitioner. I admit it. I have an MD. I hold a medical degree. That is not the same thing. I make the distinction. Ergo, your "HA!" makes me embarrassed *for* you. Honestly, your gloating makes me wonder if you ever learned about psychology... and are in DENIAL about your own pathology.
Load More Replies...The stupidity is spreading like Covid. We are fighting 2 pandemics at this moment. And they both are dangerous and lethal. If only the deniers would be affected and die, it would be an enormous and very welcome cleaning of the gene pool, but as we all know not only the deniers die from Covid-19.
In my country (Indonesia) still many people disbelieve in covid too... While my friends that still work as nurse all having the worst time in their career.. We already lost two of our senior in nursing school on the last 2 month.. If you never seeing a covid patient with bad condition, it is because of our struggle to keep this pandemi at bay..
They are not. They are still pulling the same dirty tricks now.
Load More Replies...Stories like this are terrifying... and common. I firmly believe in freedom of speech but when lies are literally killing people, there should be consequences for the people willfully spreading them.
Yeah, freedom is speech is entirely a gimmick. Entirely. Every other country on earth gets by better by having meaningful and sensible censorship.
Load More Replies...I read a very old description of how people reacted in Russia during a plageu outbreak about 200-300 years ago. It was pretty much exactly like the reaction of Covidiots today: denial, blaming the government, conspiracy theories, more denial, protests in the streets etc. It doesn't matter how much our technology evolves, because we obviously don't.
Interesting. I do wonder how much of an impact the internet/cable "news" has to this though. I don't think it would be as dire if these conspiracy theorists couldn't congregate so easily online, and if companies didn't control the narrative and spread around propaganda.
Load More Replies...my mom used to work in the hospital she does not work there any more also i just wanted to ask how do you follow people on here
You click on their name which takes you to their profile and on their profile will be a follow option.
Load More Replies...I live in a basement apt with my elderly Greek landlords upstairs. Beautiful apt and well kept home. These people care, are religious and courteous. The virus has shown me their true colours. As I am leaving Friday I bump into them and she tells me they are attending a Sunday wedding. Now the wife is coughing away and is clearly sick with something. I tell her my brother in laws father has just passed away from Covid at his nursing home and maybe she should be careful and not go to the wedding. Her response. Covid is fake. It is now Sunday and they are having about 30 people over from the wedding upstairs. This has been going on since the beginning with numerous BBQ's and get together. I cannot wait to find another job so I can move away from these crazy people.
A lot of moderately intelligent people have been saying for years: “I wish there was a disease that killed stupid people.” Now there is, but we were too stupid to realize we should have been more specific and wished for it to kill ONLY stupid people.
Unfortunately this only ends one way for us folks in the US and that's with alot' more deaths. We have half the population that doesn't believe this is a serious illness. Actual Covid-19 patients in hospitals that don't believe it's real. We can blame Republicans for this attitude (which they are) but what the hell is wrong with our society that people are cool with all these deaths?! We're about at 2000 daily deaths we can likely add another 100k before New Years. We've allowed the most ignorant to have such an influential voice in this country. We're now paying the price.
Society was given an education that was picked apart by Republicans. That’s literally how they even still have a voter base. By creating the least intelligent population in American history. It’s literally their fault. It always is.
Load More Replies...I feel for all the front line workers, not an easy situation to be in. Doesn’t help when the government doesn’t help your cause and actually makes it worse. I am super grateful to our local government, they have done exceptional work during this crisis. I can’t imagine how difficult it is to make these unpopular decisions but it is necessary to be getting on top of the virus.
The people who say that coronavirus is like the flu make no sense to me. My father doesn't leave his house unless he is going to the doctor because that's how dangerous this illness is. I live in a small town of 11,000 people and we have 2,000 cases of coronavirus. Yet we still have people that want to go to restaurants and don't where masks when they go in stores. I work at a pizza buffet place and we have people who are upset because our dining room is closed right now and they can only pick up food.
I’m a perfectly healthy and pretty young person, and I don’t leave my house either. It’s too big of a risk, for anyone.
Load More Replies...He's not wrong about taking vitamins, though. I read that 80-90% of the people with covid were found to be vitamin D deficient.
It can't hurt to take vitamin D, but I wouldn't rely on that along. By the way, out of curiosity, how many people in general are vitamin D deficient?
Load More Replies...If she quit over this, then the covid unbelievers are winning.
They may feel like winners while dying or dealing with long-term health issues, loss of family and friends, etc.
Load More Replies...Look. Folks don't believe covid is a real concern for a Number of reasons. For some they've had a family member with a very mild case and so base their understanding on limited second hand experience. Some see curated news or facebook posts. Some just don't want to believe there is such a scary thing out there and denial is easier. Some folks are poor, who have used alternative 'remedies' all their life. Garlic and onions worked for generations, by golly it will work on this. But how ever a person has gained their understanding of covid. Please don't judge them as stupid. Recognize them as having come to their options logically (however faulty and selective that logic is). It is our job to educate the incompletely educated. But to do it in a way that prioritizes the patients autonomy. We'd never make fun of someone who never learned to read and is dealing with illiteracy, would we? We also wouldn't take it personally that there are so many illiterate folks and get burnt out about it
Stupid is a word with a proper usage. Calling a covid denier “stupid” might not be nice, but it’s linguistically accurate. What you’re advocating for is to just phase out the word entirely, which really has nothing to do with garlic or covid.
Load More Replies...She said she is a secretary in hospital administration. It was up above so you would t have seen it.
Load More Replies...A few facts: 1) Masks don't work 2) Asymptomatic transmission is a myth 3) At no time in history have healthy people been locked up to deal with a virus with a 99.997% survival rate. 4) 6% of Covid deaths are only from Covid 5) This is only about control. 6)Mandating masks has not kept death rates down anywhere. From the CDC, 85% of people who "always" or "often" wore masks were the percentage who contracted Covid. People who "never" or "rarely" wore a mask were the least likely to get Covid at 7.8%. Another study showed of 20 U.S. states that have never ordered people to wear face masks indoors and out have dramatically lower COVID-19 death rates than the 30 states that have mandated masks. Most of the no-mask states have COVID-19 death rates below 20 per 100,000 population, and none have a death rate higher than 55. All 13 states that have death rates higher than 55 are states that have required the wearing of masks in all public places. It has not protected them.
Maybe they will change the title, but where does she quit her job? Heyyyy... is this fake news?
Very sad that people don't believe in covid, but for her to quit her job -a job which saves people's lives - because some people are fools, is utterly ridiculous snd will exacerbate the problem. Should a cancer specialist quit because some people dont think smoking and sunbeds cancer? Of course not. I feel sorry for her but quitting is not the answer. The right to medical care should not be based on beliefs of the patient.
She has free will. It isn't her duty to risk her life for people who didn't do all they could to avoid getting ill. There are many who think that people who refuse to wear masks and socially distance should sign a contract refusing care if they get sick.
Load More Replies...1. I'm sorry for your loss. 2. Don't ever let a patient stay in the hospital with any valuables. 3. Staff should have made a "Valuables and Personal Belongings List" when he was admitted. If the ring is listed, your family must be compensated for its loss. Talk to the hospital administration and hire a lawyer to write the hospital a letter demanding payment for the ring.
Load More Replies...And the last part is wrong. We have to do our best for EVERY patient regardless of their choices or believes, to do otherwise would be unethical.
Load More Replies...Covid is WORSE than the flu. For example on average 300,000-600,000 people die annually from the flu, but in just ONE single year we have had over 1.34 million covid deaths. The infection rate for the flu from one person is 1.3, yet covid is 2-2.5. Incubation time for the flu is 1-4 days yet Covid is 1-14 days. Flu hospitalisation rates is 2% and covid is 19%, death rate for flu is .1% yet Covid is 1-3.4%. The other big difference is that we still don’t know the long term side effects of Covid.
Load More Replies...She said there were many reasons and she relayed just this one. And who the hell are you to criticize another person's personal life choices.
Load More Replies...If we are smart we make a plan in case this happens again. The frustration you are feeling is normal and everything you were use to has completely changed. You say we overreacted, when we didn't have leadership to tell us to come together and defeat this new enemy. Yes you "can" survive, but you won't be entirely the same afterwards.
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