You antivaxxers should take a hard look at the Herman Cain awards

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I didn't have a true understanding of how Covid19 can wreck your lungs for good and there is no cure until reading the Herman Cain posts. So even if they live, many of these people are permanently disabled.

Patients loved ones describe their deterioration in great detail in those posts. They are just shocked at what us happening and had no idea how bad it can get. The sick are panicked and have to be sedated to tolerate what is being done to them. It is truly horrifying how quickly it can get out of control.

The obits and farewells and people rushing to bedsides to try to say good bye are heartbreaking.

My nurse practitioner sil said something that was impactful. She said she only recently realized that the general public doesn't truly "get it" like those who work with Covid patients. She has talked to people who think going on a ventilator is no big deal. People truly don't understand what it's like to be on a ventilator, and what that means for long term recovery. IF you recover from a ventilator, you're not just sent home healthy.

You'll have physical rehab, weakness, decreased lung capacity.

There are real mental impacts that occur post ventilator. The medications have adverse affects on cognition. People are reporting PTSD symptoms.


The impact on hospital staff is severe. Each ventilated person requires a one to one nursing staff. A nurse who would normally have multiple patients during their shift is tied to one and only one patient. This has obvious ramifications on staffing and cost.
As a nurse practitioner, my sil feels like anyone who refuses to get vaccinated is willfully ignorant or has no regard for the backbone of our healthcare system.

And it's true, people who aren't there just don't know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I didn't have a true understanding of how Covid19 can wreck your lungs for good and there is no cure until reading the Herman Cain posts. So even if they live, many of these people are permanently disabled.

Patients loved ones describe their deterioration in great detail in those posts. They are just shocked at what us happening and had no idea how bad it can get. The sick are panicked and have to be sedated to tolerate what is being done to them. It is truly horrifying how quickly it can get out of control.

The obits and farewells and people rushing to bedsides to try to say good bye are heartbreaking.

My nurse practitioner sil said something that was impactful. She said she only recently realized that the general public doesn't truly "get it" like those who work with Covid patients. She has talked to people who think going on a ventilator is no big deal. People truly don't understand what it's like to be on a ventilator, and what that means for long term recovery. IF you recover from a ventilator, you're not just sent home healthy.

You'll have physical rehab, weakness, decreased lung capacity.

There are real mental impacts that occur post ventilator. The medications have adverse affects on cognition. People are reporting PTSD symptoms.


The impact on hospital staff is severe. Each ventilated person requires a one to one nursing staff. A nurse who would normally have multiple patients during their shift is tied to one and only one patient. This has obvious ramifications on staffing and cost.
As a nurse practitioner, my sil feels like anyone who refuses to get vaccinated is willfully ignorant or has no regard for the backbone of our healthcare system.

And it's true, people who aren't there just don't know.

My dad was on a ventilator a few years ago for a week due to pneumonia following the flu. He lost part of a lung, has decreased stamina and had to go rehab for a few weeks after. I can’t imagine the state of these people after being on a ventilator for such a long period of time.

[Anonymous]

And to think a vaccine could have saved them the heartache and cost!!

A simple, safe and free shot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My cousin is currently in the ICU with Covid and refuses to believe it's Covid.

My nephew was vaccinated and got it. Unfortunately that's not a license to be reckless either. He is older and single and not being smart. She was coughing and he stupidly should have gotten out of there. Now he is home finally on oxygen, but he will have life long problems.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I didn't have a true understanding of how Covid19 can wreck your lungs for good and there is no cure until reading the Herman Cain posts. So even if they live, many of these people are permanently disabled.

Patients loved ones describe their deterioration in great detail in those posts. They are just shocked at what us happening and had no idea how bad it can get. The sick are panicked and have to be sedated to tolerate what is being done to them. It is truly horrifying how quickly it can get out of control.

The obits and farewells and people rushing to bedsides to try to say good bye are heartbreaking.

My nurse practitioner sil said something that was impactful. She said she only recently realized that the general public doesn't truly "get it" like those who work with Covid patients. She has talked to people who think going on a ventilator is no big deal. People truly don't understand what it's like to be on a ventilator, and what that means for long term recovery. IF you recover from a ventilator, you're not just sent home healthy.

You'll have physical rehab, weakness, decreased lung capacity.

There are real mental impacts that occur post ventilator. The medications have adverse affects on cognition. People are reporting PTSD symptoms.


The impact on hospital staff is severe. Each ventilated person requires a one to one nursing staff. A nurse who would normally have multiple patients during their shift is tied to one and only one patient. This has obvious ramifications on staffing and cost.
As a nurse practitioner, my sil feels like anyone who refuses to get vaccinated is willfully ignorant or has no regard for the backbone of our healthcare system.

And it's true, people who aren't there just don't know.

I wish your SIL’s explanation would go viral.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I didn't have a true understanding of how Covid19 can wreck your lungs for good and there is no cure until reading the Herman Cain posts. So even if they live, many of these people are permanently disabled.

Patients loved ones describe their deterioration in great detail in those posts. They are just shocked at what us happening and had no idea how bad it can get. The sick are panicked and have to be sedated to tolerate what is being done to them. It is truly horrifying how quickly it can get out of control.

The obits and farewells and people rushing to bedsides to try to say good bye are heartbreaking.

My nurse practitioner sil said something that was impactful. She said she only recently realized that the general public doesn't truly "get it" like those who work with Covid patients. She has talked to people who think going on a ventilator is no big deal. People truly don't understand what it's like to be on a ventilator, and what that means for long term recovery. IF you recover from a ventilator, you're not just sent home healthy.

You'll have physical rehab, weakness, decreased lung capacity.

There are real mental impacts that occur post ventilator. The medications have adverse affects on cognition. People are reporting PTSD symptoms.


The impact on hospital staff is severe. Each ventilated person requires a one to one nursing staff. A nurse who would normally have multiple patients during their shift is tied to one and only one patient. This has obvious ramifications on staffing and cost.
As a nurse practitioner, my sil feels like anyone who refuses to get vaccinated is willfully ignorant or has no regard for the backbone of our healthcare system.

And it's true, people who aren't there just don't know.

I wish your SIL’s explanation would go viral.

No pun intended!

[Anonymous]

Contributing to and looking at a website which mocks people who have died is disgusting. Promoting it and cheering for it is despicable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Contributing to and looking at a website which mocks people who have died is disgusting. Promoting it and cheering for it is despicable.

That site is an educational slap in the face. It has changed so many minds and convinced people to get vaxed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Contributing to and looking at a website which mocks people who have died is disgusting. Promoting it and cheering for it is despicable.

I completely get your sentiment, which is why I’ve never visited that thread, but I think there is some value in publicizing the people who were sure covid posed no threat to them and then suffered real harm from contracting covid. Nothing I say will convince anti vaxxers to get the vaccine, but seeing the toll covid is taking on the unvaccinated just might.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Contributing to and looking at a website which mocks people who have died is disgusting. Promoting it and cheering for it is despicable.

That subreddit is saving lives.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Contributing to and looking at a website which mocks people who have died is disgusting. Promoting it and cheering for it is despicable.

That subreddit is saving lives.

+1 many posts how former skeptics were convinced to take the vaccine after viewing that subreddit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Contributing to and looking at a website which mocks people who have died is disgusting. Promoting it and cheering for it is despicable.

That site is an educational slap in the face. It has changed so many minds and convinced people to get vaxed.

Sure it has.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And to think a vaccine could have saved them the heartache and cost!!

A simple, safe and free shot.

LOL…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I didn't have a true understanding of how Covid19 can wreck your lungs for good and there is no cure until reading the Herman Cain posts. So even if they live, many of these people are permanently disabled.

Patients loved ones describe their deterioration in great detail in those posts. They are just shocked at what us happening and had no idea how bad it can get. The sick are panicked and have to be sedated to tolerate what is being done to them. It is truly horrifying how quickly it can get out of control.

The obits and farewells and people rushing to bedsides to try to say good bye are heartbreaking.

My nurse practitioner sil said something that was impactful. She said she only recently realized that the general public doesn't truly "get it" like those who work with Covid patients. She has talked to people who think going on a ventilator is no big deal. People truly don't understand what it's like to be on a ventilator, and what that means for long term recovery. IF you recover from a ventilator, you're not just sent home healthy.

You'll have physical rehab, weakness, decreased lung capacity.

There are real mental impacts that occur post ventilator. The medications have adverse affects on cognition. People are reporting PTSD symptoms.


The impact on hospital staff is severe. Each ventilated person requires a one to one nursing staff. A nurse who would normally have multiple patients during their shift is tied to one and only one patient. This has obvious ramifications on staffing and cost.
As a nurse practitioner, my sil feels like anyone who refuses to get vaccinated is willfully ignorant or has no regard for the backbone of our healthcare system.

And it's true, people who aren't there just don't know.

My dad was on a ventilator a few years ago for a week due to pneumonia following the flu. He lost part of a lung, has decreased stamina and had to go rehab for a few weeks after. I can’t imagine the state of these people after being on a ventilator for such a long period of time.

Even worse than ventilators -- ECMO. Plenty of people on that subreddit praying that an ECMO bed opens for their loved one. I don't think people have the foggiest notion of what that entails, the resources required to maintain a patient on ECMO, or any of that.

[Anonymous]

Why do you care? As terrible as it is, I feel little sympathy for people whose ignorance causes their own suffering. There are too many other things for me to worry about in my life.