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What did we learn from Covid? (Jen Sorensen) (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by Ragdoll_X to c/comicstrips

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[–] Sekrayray 65 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I was assaulted by a family member for not giving “IV Ivermectin” to someone with COVID who I had just crash intubated (honestly thought they were going to code, but somehow didn’t) back during the Delta wave.

My view of humanity has gotten pretty pessimistic since COVID. If I had the guts I’d honestly love to go create an insulated community of people who actually think about stuff and want to help each other.

[–] NocturnalMorning 32 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, covid broke my faith in humanity. When we encounter a real global threat that could wipe us off the face of the planet, we will not rise to the occasion and band together.

Climate change, disease, aliens, asteroids, a super volcanic eruption. Just not gonna happen the way it's portrayed in movies.

[–] Sekrayray 32 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And it’s this weird thing where a decent percentage of humanity was working super hard to save everyone else—did save most everyone else—and a ton of people are just going on about the “Fauci Ouchie” and nanochips.

The general public has no idea how many people we saved with the mRNA vaccines and critical care medicine. They’re blatantly oblivious to it. The death toll would’ve been monumentally worse without a coordinated effort of public health, healthcare, and research. Yet no one has any idea. COVID was simultaneously one of humanity’s greatest unrecognized accomplishments and one of its greatest blunders.

If you’ve ever read or watched The Expanse series I feel like it’s spot on as far as humanity’s response to disasters.

[–] bbuez 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Don't give them ideas thinking the protomolecule is in the vaccine lol

[–] Sekrayray 1 points 7 months ago

Na khorocho, que si?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Except it maybe will happen like in Don't Look Up

[–] NocturnalMorning 9 points 7 months ago

Well yeah, Don't look up is all about how stupid we are as a species.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago (1 children)

My views on humanity fell off a cliff in 2016. I've always been pretty cynical but that was rock bottom. Imagine my surprise that there was another cliff to fall off of in 2020. And the worst that happened to me was getting called "genocidal" because I don't believe "why not, maybe it works" is scientific enough to justify giving everyone ivermectin.

It is completely despicable to attack a healthcare professional because they don't agree with the conspiracy theory of the day. Let alone a family member. I'm sorry they decided to do that to you.

All this because a lone dimwit didn't want cloth masks to muss his makeup.

[–] Sekrayray 8 points 7 months ago

Thanks, I appreciate it.

I have a pretty high tolerance for disrespect (either from patients or other specialties) since I work in Emergency Medicine, but COVID was just off the charts.

[–] The_Tired_Horizon 14 points 7 months ago

I nearly got assaulted by another staff member, sort of defended myself from it by just shoving him away and creating distance, and then I ended up on a disciplinary over it. Despite everything he'd seen he still thought he was hard-done by and tried to take it out on myself. I had an exemplary record for nearly 28 years up until then.

[–] perviouslyiner 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

No need to create such a community - there's one ready-made in Iceland! They even had a vet who was on top of the vaccine* research in the early days.

EDIT: Just looked up that story, and (a) it was in the Faroe Islands not Iceland, and (b) they adapted their salmon-testing labs to detect covid in humans, allowing them to test 5% of the population per day, locally.