Covid hysteria and the hospital reaction.

[junkytj]

It's complete bullshit anywhere but a nursing home. I mangled two of my fingers and my wife took me to the hospital she worked at so she could badge in and see me in the ER. Changed into her scrubs before we left.

 

[2JZ]

MIL had a mini stroke last week. They let the wife into triage, but I couldn't step a foot in the hospital. While in there the nurse told my wife that her mom had a heart attack a couple weeks ago. She wasn't allowed into the room to be with her mom. But the next day she went to work...at the same hospital. Fawking bullshit.

 

[rockota]

Considering that when covid gets in a long term care facility it seems to kill off half the residents of course they don't want visitors.

The hospital part is going to be interesting, basically covid has shut down all of their profit centers while increasing the use of it's most expensive facilities. I'm going to bet we continue our socialist to big to fail agenda and start bailing out hospital systems next year.

to be fair, the hospitals are essentially under the control of the government... Covid hasn't shut down anything... Government has used Covid to shut down everything, including healthcare they deem not necessary...

 

[junkytj]

It's complete bullshit anywhere but a nursing home. I mangled two of my fingers and my wife took me to the hospital she worked at so she could badge in and see me in the ER. Changed into her scrubs before we left.

And just got a message from wife she is being denied vacation requests because they are understaffed after covid layoffs. One of the days was to close on property. She's calling in sick. fuck em.

 

[Yota Up]

TLDR the whole thing.
But as a hospital worker it's nice not having a bunch of emotional family members lurking about.
As a human I feel your pain.
These rules are largely mandated by CDC.

To prioritize your personal luxury of having your work environment be "nice" over the desperate need of a family's desire to hug and kiss their loved one in a potential end of life situation is quite selfish and troubling and I hope it's not representative of health care workers in general.

 

[Dirtyjed]

To prioritize your personal luxury of having your work environment be "nice" over the desperate need of a family's desire to hug and kiss their loved one in a potential end of life situation is quite selfish and troubling and I hope it's not representative of health care workers in general.

Where the fuck did I say I prioritize shit you fuck stick. Assume much?

 

[Tin Roof]

I know I'm going to sound like a virtue signaling Karen, but if I had a kid in the ER possibly dying I would do John Wick shit to get in there.

I’m going to have to hope for some really old and out of shape security guards if I have to take on more than two of them, but I’d give it my best to get in to see one of my kids.

 

[Tin Roof]

Hospital total overreaction or am I just an ass hole? I’m fully prepared for it to be the latter but hear me out.

It’s late and I can’t sleep. What’s on my mind are now two absolute bull shit scenarios to do with emergency room visits and the handling of visitors during emergency times.

2 weeks ago my grandfather had a heart attack. My grandparents who just had their 61st wedding anniversary that we all did not get to celebrate because we’re “social distancing”. Grandpa is 80 grandma is 79, have been pretty much isolated all year already because of the covid bullshit. About 10 o’clock they’re both in bed when grandpa wakes up with his heat racing. Wakes grandma up, she gives him some nitroglycerin and calls an ambulance. The EMT’s won’t let grandmother go in the ambulance but tell her if she drives herself she can join him at the hospital. She gets to the hospital a little before 11 and finds the ER doors locked. She hits the page button to be let in and two security guards come out to turn her away. A crying 79 year old 5’2” 100 ish pound little old lady pleaded with them for about an hour and they DID NOT let her inside. Her husband of 61 years, the only thing she cares about in this world was for all she knew dying or dead inside and all they would tell her was to leave. Go home someone will call you. Not knowing anything else to do she went home and waited for that phone call. No phone call did she ever receive. Once inside they determined grandpa was in AFIB and they got his heart rate under control and put a temporary pacemaker on him. He’d arrived in an ambulance fresh out of bed, in pajamas, no shoes, no phone, no glasses, no teeth, no wallet. 2 am and he has no idea where his wife is. Agitated and demanding to be released, he’s officially discharged at 2:47 am. Hospital staff called him a cab and gave him a voucher for the ride home. He walks in the door to my grandmothers surprise about 3:30 am.

story number two, last Thursday night or Friday morning a good friend of mine looks to have been the victim of a white bashing hate crime. He was found in his own driveway in a pool of his own blood about 7:30 am by one of his neighbors who called it in as a shooting victim. Turns out he wasn’t shot, he was bashed in the back of the head caving in his skull and giving him a TBI. He’s currently on life support in the ICU and the fucking hospital will only let one of his parents in to see him per day. Not at a time, only ONE visitor per day. 12 hours tops day shift only.

Why does this make me so angry? Grandpa could have died alone while his wife was standing in the parking lot down stairs trying to get to his side. And Evan’s parents are looking at having to pull the plug on their brain dead son while only one person at a time can be in the room with him. How do they decide which one of them sits there for his last heart beat.

Is there any legal recourse to this bullshit? I don’t know Jack shit about hospitals or their liability. If I showed up at the ICU and called the sheriff could I demand my way inside to see my grandfather? Is this my Karen white privileged white people problems showing? Is the actual concern that multiple people coming in are potentially bringing covid to the hospital staff?

My grandmother would not for one second be upset about catching covid to get to hold her husbands hand while he passed, even if she later died from it. She would however, be upset for the remainder of her own life if she couldn’t be there for his final moments. Evans parents are in the same boat. They just want to be together in the room with him and have his brother in there for the plug pulling nightmare. They don’t GAF about catching covid currently.

TLDR wall of text? Cliffs. If one of your loved ones is dying in the hospital, you will likely not be allowed in to spend their final moments with. They will die alone surrounded by people they don’t know if they’re lucky. Maybe even just alone. I’m outraged by this, am I an asshole? What say you?

That shit is infuriating, especially the thought of a 79 year old woman being shut out and sent home.

 

[45acp]

I’m going to have to hope for some really old and out of shape security guards if I have to take on more than two of them, but I’d give it my best to get in to see one of my kids.

Super human adrenaline knows no age or physical condition.

A sick relative? 2-3 guards will make short work of me. My dying child? Ill walk through a brick wall without a scratch ala Ironman.

 

[Yota Up]

What would the charged against you be, trespassing? Pft, no big deal and totally worth it.