Re: Covfefe-19: We're all getting $5/hour more in hazard pay!
That's totally fair. This isn't a conscription force and it's always up to everyone to decide what's right for his or her family.
I really hope you can come to look at your decision as respectable. It isn't a shameful decision. Do what you can, with what you have, without becoming a statistic yourself. The best that 99.9% of us can do is literally sit on our *** for the next two weeks and don't make the problem worse.
Those that are coming out of retirement certainly are heroes. But at the same time, once you get to a certain age or have any of a number of risk categories, you're less likely to be able to just recover at home and instead become a consumer of resources.
You have a good heart and you shouldn't beat yourself up.
You know, that is a ridiculously obvious point that I never thought of. Thanks. I have always been one of those who gave before being asked but the way things are going I definitely would be a statistic.
Had to deal with the hospital and public health folk the last few days re uncle les. Some observations
-public health there is doing things the way we were taught 4 decades ago. Tedious fact finding to identify target person, contacts, where they had been etc. The thing that is not right is there seems to be no system in place currently to talk to the actual
patient first. They called me, multiple States away, to collect info. I actually had the info because my old training kicked in and I had asked questions out of habit. I am pretty sure the amount of info I had was unusual. They talked to uncle les today- 4 days in.
-the hospital staff is wonderful but again the system is crazy. I got a call from a case manager today asking particulars. uncle les is in his 80s but cognizant, extremely active, still does fill in organ for multiple churches, sings in at least one choir, is very social and visits. THere is no question of his mental status yet- the CM called me. They are not meeting with the patients on the isolation floors at all. Total disconnect. Once again, I did the thing my training taught me to do but no idea how things would have gone if I didn't have that training.
-there is no true system or plan. The woman was totally honest with me and told me they are learning as they go- protocols are not just a bit fluid- they are changing more than they are the same. They are doing what they can to be safe but they have no idea what to do with the people who have tested positive and currently no defined protocol about when discharge cold be allowed or even if they would allow it home depending on bed availability.