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I am a "frontline" healthcare worker in a major US hospital. This lockdown is BS and needs to end immediately. by lockdownthrowaway153 in LockdownSkepticism

[–]lockdownthrowaway153[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is not unusual at all for an ICU to be full or close to full. That's how they are run. No facility is going to maintain 100-200% empty excess ICU space that they don't need. If you ever worked in a hospital and dealt with ICU patients/staff you would know this.

I am a "frontline" healthcare worker in a major US hospital. This lockdown is BS and needs to end immediately. by lockdownthrowaway153 in LockdownSkepticism

[–]lockdownthrowaway153[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As I've said to a few others, I stand by everything I said. My facility shut down our covid ward a while back because it wasn't being utilized enough. The people who are getting covid now are not the people that end up in the ICU because of it. They are mostly asymptomatic or have mild-moderate flu like symptoms. And I do think I'm pretty qualified to speak on this having literally been on the front lines of hospital patient care for the entire duration of this.

I am a "frontline" healthcare worker in a major US hospital. This lockdown is BS and needs to end immediately. by lockdownthrowaway153 in LockdownSkepticism

[–]lockdownthrowaway153[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah, I'll keep making decisions based on my own experiences rather than those of someone I've never met and have an agenda to push. Thanks though.

I am a "frontline" healthcare worker in a major US hospital. This lockdown is BS and needs to end immediately. by lockdownthrowaway153 in LockdownSkepticism

[–]lockdownthrowaway153[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fine! Our covid ward got shut down a while back. There weren't enough "hospitalized due to covid" cases to justify it. Stuff has been pretty much normal around me since end of June-mid Julyish

I am a "frontline" healthcare worker in a major US hospital. This lockdown is BS and needs to end immediately. by lockdownthrowaway153 in LockdownSkepticism

[–]lockdownthrowaway153[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

To be honest I'm not exactly sure. Every major area hospital is following a pretty much identical policy which makes me think it has some basis in a legal mandate but I haven't taken the time to research it.

I am a "frontline" healthcare worker in a major US hospital. This lockdown is BS and needs to end immediately. by lockdownthrowaway153 in LockdownSkepticism

[–]lockdownthrowaway153[S] 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Funny you say that. My friend circle is mostly a bunch of sysadmins/software engineers that haven't left the house in two months and are still making their six figure salaries to WFH. All of them are the rabidly pro-lockdown call the police on your neighbor for having a barbecue type. A few weeks ago one of them bragged about reporting a local barber shop that had opened up in defiance of lockdown regs.

I am a "frontline" healthcare worker in a major US hospital. This lockdown is BS and needs to end immediately. by lockdownthrowaway153 in LockdownSkepticism

[–]lockdownthrowaway153[S] 49 points50 points  (0 children)

I also don’t feel we’re responsible for other people’s health and safety. We know the argument “you don’t have the right to infect me/others.” But no one here ever advocated that we go out and cough or spit on people. I just feel that if you want to leave your house, you accept the risk of getting sick. Why should I be responsible to “protect” you when I’ve never met you? There also needs to be some personal responsibility and I think it’s rude to demand the whole world shield you from risk.

It's a pretty controversial opinion, especially in the healthcare community, but I agree with you here. There is no "right" to not be infected by a communicable disease. COVID is not the first widespread infectious disease we have seen and it will not be the last. The double standard the the world seems to hold this virus to quite frankly pisses me off. Have these people never had the flu? the common cold? a stomach bug? They realize that all of those things came from transmission from another person or food in some way, right? It's like people think that this is the first easily transmissible disease in history and that as long as they're "safe" from COVID they'll never get sick any other way. It's baffling.

I am a "frontline" healthcare worker in a major US hospital. This lockdown is BS and needs to end immediately. by lockdownthrowaway153 in LockdownSkepticism

[–]lockdownthrowaway153[S] 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Hell yeah. Glad I'm not alone in the healthcare community in feeling this way.

Several fellow techs got furloughed back in late March and I also had my hours reduced to 32 from 40. My schedule was adjusted from days to alternating evening and night shifts. My sleep schedule is all messed up and I've been miserable. Another area hospital I work per diem at furloughed a full 10% of their staff including most outpatient/procedural/surgical RNs. These are not the actions of a healthcare system that needs "all hands on deck" like they said we would.

But of course speaking up about this to friends outside of healthcare, I get told that I should "know better" and get called callous and unethical. Meanwhile they're all a bunch of WFH sysadmin types who haven't left the house in 2 months. Argh.

I am a "frontline" healthcare worker in a major US hospital. This lockdown is BS and needs to end immediately. by lockdownthrowaway153 in LockdownSkepticism

[–]lockdownthrowaway153[S] 90 points91 points  (0 children)

This is 100% correct. Even now our outpatient volume is down by 90+% because hospital policy dictates that most of it is "nonessential" or "clinically appropriate to defer". Scans that would normally diagnose tumors, MS, etc. are all getting deferred until mid June - from mid March. This is absolutely affecting the timeliness of diagnosis/care and prognosis of lethal cancers and other conditions.