Sick Of Ignorant People Not Believing In COVID-19, Nurse Quits Her Job In The COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit

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.

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..

republicans should be ashamed of themselves.

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.

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

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.

Thanks! But ... please don't resign. I may be selfish here - although not in the US ... you have a really hard time over there ... anyway, thanks to all nurses, doctors, hospital janitors and all the people they meet every day!

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.

"skillets" ? or skill sets.

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

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.

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.

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Sounds like she is just bad at her job or too new. The best and experienced stop caring about those with a prerogative to die. The really good medical staff that care know to do their best half assed job on the worthless and save effort for those that aren't trying to kill themselves with stupidity, denial, smoking or cheeseburgers

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I support your decision. The virus is real whether people believe it or not. However, I know several people in the healthcare industry, some family members, who have quit their jobs because they were instructed to give false information inflating both case counts and hospital occupancy numbers...to be specific..."say this and let the media handle the rest". So who do we actually believe? It's sad that we cant just find a middle ground on this.

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She quits because of one patient's ignorance? um ok.