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onecaliberal

(32,486 posts)
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 07:27 PM Oct 2021

My co-workers mom passed away because there was no bed in the hospital

to take care of her heart condition. She was left in a hospital hallway for two days waiting for an echo test that was never done. My co-worker is completely devastated and so angry.

We need to shun the anti-vaxxers from the public and society. They ARE killing people. I'm so broken for her. This country is just jacked.

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My co-workers mom passed away because there was no bed in the hospital (Original Post) onecaliberal Oct 2021 OP
That is heartbreaking not even knowing the people involved. brer cat Oct 2021 #1
I feel so awful for her. I'm so angry too. onecaliberal Oct 2021 #15
This is heartbreaking Deuxcents Oct 2021 #2
Oh no, I would just go INSANE with rage and grief Leghorn21 Oct 2021 #3
Same. I have a lot of rage for her. onecaliberal Oct 2021 #16
Same here. smirkymonkey Oct 2021 #71
You're in good company. I don't think I could go on either. onecaliberal Oct 2021 #78
Im very sorry. Tetrachloride Oct 2021 #4
Sorry for your co-worker on the loss of her Mom Sherman A1 Oct 2021 #5
It's time we kick un-vaccinated people out of ICU KS Toronado Oct 2021 #6
Absolutely! Rebl2 Oct 2021 #10
Hear, hear! onecaliberal Oct 2021 #17
YES! And I am SO SICK of the bleeding hearts that clutch their pearls at Maru Kitteh Oct 2021 #27
Agreed kcr Oct 2021 #54
It wound be easier to refuse them ICU beds to begin with wryter2000 Oct 2021 #63
Good points, I agree 100% KS Toronado Oct 2021 #64
👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻 Exactly. They should be in the hallway. onecaliberal Oct 2021 #66
An unnecessary death is so much sadder. I am sorry for your co-worker. LoisB Oct 2021 #7
I am so sorry for your friend mgardener Oct 2021 #8
Why the fuck are unvaccinated receiving any kind of treatment at all, let alone PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2021 #9
Same madness happened to a friend's father malaise Oct 2021 #11
Co-workers mom died in the hallway. No one is quite sure about exactly what time. onecaliberal Oct 2021 #18
And to my next-door neighbor Fritz Walter Oct 2021 #57
Field tent hospitals for the unvaccinated. The unvaccinated healthcare onecaliberal Oct 2021 #58
So sorry. Horrible situation. Joinfortmill Oct 2021 #12
:( struggle4progress Oct 2021 #13
I am so sorry. Solly Mack Oct 2021 #14
It is the height of ridiculousness that these people get a bed over other people who did the right onecaliberal Oct 2021 #19
"...killing us and getting away with it." dchill Oct 2021 #49
Hi Solly! SheltieLover Oct 2021 #76
I just found out that I was exposed to a positive covid case... 2naSalit Oct 2021 #20
Fingers crossed you're negative. I'm so sorry. onecaliberal Oct 2021 #23
Well... 2naSalit Oct 2021 #40
Positive vibes. Keep us posted. onecaliberal Oct 2021 #42
I will, thanks. ...nt 2naSalit Oct 2021 #46
The Republicans are waging biological warfare against the United States. Crunchy Frog Oct 2021 #21
Every hospital should allocate only a certain number of beds for unvaccinated Covid patients Lonestarblue Oct 2021 #22
I agree. We were talking about this today. onecaliberal Oct 2021 #24
If someone is refusing to do take preventative... 3catwoman3 Oct 2021 #25
Sorry for your friend's loss. Exact same thing happened to my friend and drummer last December. bluesbassman Oct 2021 #26
I'm so sorry about your friend. Needless death. onecaliberal Oct 2021 #43
Republicans are making their own death panels. keithbvadu2 Oct 2021 #28
Good point. I guess they are now pro death panels to own the Libs by killing people. onecaliberal Oct 2021 #29
They don't even care that many deaths are their own followers.... expendable. keithbvadu2 Oct 2021 #31
They're dying at a far higher pace. No question. onecaliberal Oct 2021 #32
It is well past time for hospitals to point blank give priority to those that are vaccinated cstanleytech Oct 2021 #30
i just don't understand why hospitals haven't done something about this orleans Oct 2021 #33
Very good questions. onecaliberal Oct 2021 #36
sincere condolences to you and your co-worker on the loss of her mom orleans Oct 2021 #41
i've asked here several times where the field hospitals went. mopinko Oct 2021 #50
Because they mostly can't Sgent Oct 2021 #74
I'm sorry MustLoveBeagles Oct 2021 #34
I can't even bare the thought samplegirl Oct 2021 #35
Positive healing thoughts for your friend. onecaliberal Oct 2021 #37
I agree, fuck these fucking morons. Initech Oct 2021 #38
Two days waiting for a simple 20-minute echo test? Elwood P Dowd Oct 2021 #39
She most likely needed a procedure, but they had to do the echo first. onecaliberal Oct 2021 #44
My heart goes out to her. roamer65 Oct 2021 #45
She's trying to process and care for her dad and all of the things that go along. onecaliberal Oct 2021 #47
I think she needs to talk to a good attorney. roamer65 Oct 2021 #48
Sadly enough.... OhioChick Oct 2021 #51
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Good grief. Anti-vaxxers *are* to blame. Lars39 Oct 2021 #55
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These events aren't abstract....real people are dying because of these idiots. Lars39 Oct 2021 #59
What is this bullshit here? People who are refusing vaccines are KILLING and ORPHANING Scrivener7 Oct 2021 #60
Exactly OhioChick Oct 2021 #75
Because my kids are ED doctors and tell me it's going on now n/t OhioChick Oct 2021 #73
The vaccinated are being penalized with unnecessary delays and higher hospital bills dalton99a Oct 2021 #53
So sad and never should have happened. BeckyDem Oct 2021 #61
I am so sorry wryter2000 Oct 2021 #62
Insanity. And so unnecessary. Never imagined this kind of selfishness and division. I'm sorry. Evolve Dammit Oct 2021 #65
So sorry. It's just awful. What state is this? LymphocyteLover Oct 2021 #67
Why is heart condition not as important as having the virus.. Texaswitchy Oct 2021 #68
Unvaccinated? Go the fk home. OMGWTF Oct 2021 #69
Unvaccinated? Go the fk home. OMGWTF Oct 2021 #69
I'm in a local club with a woman xmas74 Oct 2021 #72
This country IS jacked. hamsterjill Oct 2021 #77

brer cat

(24,401 posts)
1. That is heartbreaking not even knowing the people involved.
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 07:37 PM
Oct 2021

We expect our friends and family to be cared for at the hospital, not left to die in a hallway. The anti-vaxxers are causing death all around the country and they need to put out in tents with sheep dip to treat themselves.

I wish I knew a way to turn your co-worker's anger into something positive, but I don't know what that would be.

Deuxcents

(15,777 posts)
2. This is heartbreaking
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 07:37 PM
Oct 2021

Just to know this could happen in the first place but it could happen to any of us. This is just sad

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
71. Same here.
Tue Oct 12, 2021, 06:38 PM
Oct 2021

If that happened to one of my family members, they would probably have to put me in a mental hospital for my own and society's safety.

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)
5. Sorry for your co-worker on the loss of her Mom
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 08:23 PM
Oct 2021

Yes, I agree that the anti-vax crowd needs to be left to fend for themselves and the folks that have done the right thing should push them to the curb. They should receive no public accommodation of any sort and that includes hospitalization.

KS Toronado

(16,909 posts)
6. It's time we kick un-vaccinated people out of ICU
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 08:26 PM
Oct 2021

When the bed is needed by someone who did not ask to be sick. Let 'em go home and use their
hero's cures they believe in.....hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, Clorox, & lights up their ass.

Rebl2

(13,310 posts)
10. Absolutely!
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 08:44 PM
Oct 2021

Those who could be vaccinated and choose not to for no good reason should not be going to the hospital because they have Covid. They should just stay home and suffer through it.

Maru Kitteh

(28,303 posts)
27. YES! And I am SO SICK of the bleeding hearts that clutch their pearls at
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 09:32 PM
Oct 2021

such an idea. FUCK THE UNVACCINATED. Seriously. Let them and their defenders go gargle with some ground glass and H2O2 followed with a horse-paste chaser or whatever they're into these days.

kcr

(15,300 posts)
54. Agreed
Tue Oct 12, 2021, 11:21 AM
Oct 2021

I'm sure their tune would change real fast, and the finger-wagging would immediately cease if it was one of their loved ones who died.

wryter2000

(46,016 posts)
63. It wound be easier to refuse them ICU beds to begin with
Tue Oct 12, 2021, 12:37 PM
Oct 2021

Once they're in, it's pretty impossible to kick them out. But if this person's mother spent 2 days in the hallway, put the anti-vaxxers in the hallway instead. Or put up a mobile clinic for them in the parking lot.

onecaliberal

(32,486 posts)
66. 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻 Exactly. They should be in the hallway.
Tue Oct 12, 2021, 01:01 PM
Oct 2021

Or preferable in a tent somewhere else.

malaise

(267,819 posts)
11. Same madness happened to a friend's father
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 08:50 PM
Oct 2021

He had a mild stroke and they left him in the hallway for ten hours. HE died right there - 67 years old.
It's horrible

Fritz Walter

(4,281 posts)
57. And to my next-door neighbor
Tue Oct 12, 2021, 11:41 AM
Oct 2021

After fracturing his hip in a fall (at home), the fire & rescue squad took him to the closest major hospital. Where he sat for hours before they discharged him. Their x-ray didn't show a fracture.

He was sent home, where -- a week later -- he was in such bad shape that he was returned to the same hospital. This time, they ran a CT scan and found the fracture. But still had no beds. So he was sent to a nursing home, where he passed a couple days later.

All because the anti-vaxers have filled ICUs. Send their sorry asses to nursing homes and field (tent) hospitals.

Solly Mack

(90,740 posts)
14. I am so sorry.
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 08:59 PM
Oct 2021

The evening I had my heart attack there was another person there with a stroke and he had been waiting 15 hours to find a hospital bed when I was getting ER treatment. When I left on the helicopter, he was still waiting.

This is horrible for people with an emergency, anti-vaxxers taking up all the space because of their ignorance.

onecaliberal

(32,486 posts)
19. It is the height of ridiculousness that these people get a bed over other people who did the right
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 09:08 PM
Oct 2021

Thing. I’m just so fed up with these fucking people killing us and getting away with it.

dchill

(38,321 posts)
49. "...killing us and getting away with it."
Tue Oct 12, 2021, 02:18 AM
Oct 2021

There is more wrong with that than I can wrap my head around.

SheltieLover

(57,073 posts)
76. Hi Solly!
Wed Oct 13, 2021, 09:09 AM
Oct 2021

Absolutely!

So happy to see you posting. How are you feeling?

Willfully unvaxed should not be allowed to destroy healthcare system, schools, and lives! So sorry you had a heart attack & had to experience this!

I hope the stroke victim got help!

2naSalit

(86,056 posts)
20. I just found out that I was exposed to a positive covid case...
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 09:08 PM
Oct 2021

last week. Now I have to go get tested and I am really pissed at the person who got me exposed.
It could disrupt my dental care plan that is nearly complete and for which I have to travel nearly 300 miles one way to each session.



I have a therapy session tomorrow so now I need to call and cancel first thing in the morning and go find a testing location. My medical care provider can't see me because of a ransomeware attack... fun times.

I feel for you and your friend, my condolences.

2naSalit

(86,056 posts)
40. Well...
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 11:00 PM
Oct 2021

I was just venting but it happens all the time to someone every day. Your friend's thing is becoming common too and it's horrible. Though the friend's mom dying that way is far more serious, this whole mess is just getting harder to bear on so many levels. At least I'm fully vaxxed and try to stay isolated, wear a mask everywhere.

I hope I come out negative too. I can't handle being really sick, I don't have anyone to help me if I do.

I see there's a walk-in testing site at the county facility so I'll go there.



Crunchy Frog

(26,548 posts)
21. The Republicans are waging biological warfare against the United States.
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 09:09 PM
Oct 2021

I'm sorry that they killed your co-workers mom.

Lonestarblue

(9,880 posts)
22. Every hospital should allocate only a certain number of beds for unvaccinated Covid patients
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 09:11 PM
Oct 2021

to ensure that they have space for those who need emergency care. I have no empathy left for those who refuse to protect themselves and prevent hospitalization.

onecaliberal

(32,486 posts)
24. I agree. We were talking about this today.
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 09:13 PM
Oct 2021

I guess now they’re lying about vaccination status to make it look like there are a lot more breakthrough cases. 🤬🤬

3catwoman3

(23,816 posts)
25. If someone is refusing to do take preventative...
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 09:17 PM
Oct 2021

…measures they have a hell of e nerve demanding therapeutic measures, IMO.

How devastating for your colleague.

bluesbassman

(19,310 posts)
26. Sorry for your friend's loss. Exact same thing happened to my friend and drummer last December.
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 09:25 PM
Oct 2021

Three days in a rural hospital, no beds available in the DFW metro system so he had to wait. By the time a cardiologist could get to him it was too late. Could have been saved if he had been able to receive timely medical treatment.

keithbvadu2

(36,367 posts)
31. They don't even care that many deaths are their own followers.... expendable.
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 10:01 PM
Oct 2021

They don't even care that many deaths are their own followers.... expendable.

onecaliberal

(32,486 posts)
32. They're dying at a far higher pace. No question.
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 10:03 PM
Oct 2021

They’re also growing more crazy and unhinged by the day.

cstanleytech

(26,080 posts)
30. It is well past time for hospitals to point blank give priority to those that are vaccinated
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 09:59 PM
Oct 2021

when it comes to their health care.

orleans

(33,987 posts)
33. i just don't understand why hospitals haven't done something about this
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 10:31 PM
Oct 2021

last year there were tents and make-shift hospitals set up in various cities for covid patients.
why can't these hospitals that are stashing people in offices and hallways doing that? and putting their covid non-vaxers in the tents?

orleans

(33,987 posts)
41. sincere condolences to you and your co-worker on the loss of her mom
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 11:02 PM
Oct 2021

that is absolutely heartbreaking
(and infuriating; never should have happened)

mopinko

(69,806 posts)
50. i've asked here several times where the field hospitals went.
Tue Oct 12, 2021, 02:25 AM
Oct 2021

what the hell is going on?
are there imbedded wing nuts fucking w this?

Sgent

(5,857 posts)
74. Because they mostly can't
Wed Oct 13, 2021, 04:30 AM
Oct 2021

are required by the EMTLA to stabilize anyone who comes through the door must be stabilized unless they don't offer a given service. This is a criminal (not civil) law. They aren't allowed to officially triage outside the ER unless the state health department authorizes it.

samplegirl

(11,415 posts)
35. I can't even bare the thought
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 10:39 PM
Oct 2021

of this reading so many people suffering from
the AntiVaxers!

I have a very sick friend right now. I’m affraid if he needs the hospital.

Awake with worry!

Initech

(99,914 posts)
38. I agree, fuck these fucking morons.
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 10:53 PM
Oct 2021

If they don't want to get vaccinated, they can and deserve to be treated like 4th class citizens. They can whine all they want. Don't want the vaccine? Then expect to be shunned from soceity.

Damn this makes me angry. That should not have to happen in this country.

Elwood P Dowd

(11,443 posts)
39. Two days waiting for a simple 20-minute echo test?
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 11:00 PM
Oct 2021

I had one last summer, but it wasn't done in the hospital. Didn't take long because my heart doctor performed those in his own office complex. Good thing I didn't have to go to the damn hospital.

roamer65

(36,739 posts)
45. My heart goes out to her.
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 11:10 PM
Oct 2021


Wow…my hate for the willfully unvaccinated would reach thermonuclear levels if I lost a parent that way.

onecaliberal

(32,486 posts)
47. She's trying to process and care for her dad and all of the things that go along.
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 11:26 PM
Oct 2021

She waffles back and forth between tears and anger. So many questions. . Its difficult to comprehend how such a thing could be allowed to happen to a fully vaccinated individual.

OhioChick

(23,218 posts)
51. Sadly enough....
Tue Oct 12, 2021, 05:25 AM
Oct 2021

This will continue, anti-vaxxers will be treated prior to those who are vaccinated with true healthcare emergencies.

Response to OhioChick (Reply #51)

Lars39

(26,093 posts)
55. Good grief. Anti-vaxxers *are* to blame.
Tue Oct 12, 2021, 11:25 AM
Oct 2021

They are the people overburdening our hospitals, causing people with regular human medical problems to be denied the care they need.

Response to Lars39 (Reply #55)

Lars39

(26,093 posts)
59. These events aren't abstract....real people are dying because of these idiots.
Tue Oct 12, 2021, 11:49 AM
Oct 2021

People who deserve healthcare instead of dying in hallways. Where the hell are you living where you think you aren’t affected by anti-vaxxers?

Scrivener7

(50,773 posts)
60. What is this bullshit here? People who are refusing vaccines are KILLING and ORPHANING
Tue Oct 12, 2021, 11:55 AM
Oct 2021

thousands.

This is not a talking point. It is a fact. Plagues kill people. Vaccines prevent people from getting sick. The unvaxxed ARE at fault.

BeckyDem

(8,361 posts)
61. So sad and never should have happened.
Tue Oct 12, 2021, 11:58 AM
Oct 2021

I support mandated vaccines because people should not be free to cause this type of chaotic disaster.

wryter2000

(46,016 posts)
62. I am so sorry
Tue Oct 12, 2021, 12:35 PM
Oct 2021

I wonder if there can be a class action suit against Republican governors who are preventing mask and vaccination mandates. I don't know if it applies in your coworker's case, but if this happened to me in Texas or Florida, I would look into it.

I hope to God the new pill will keep some of these selfish assholes out of the hospitals. I also hope they'll take it.

Evolve Dammit

(16,632 posts)
65. Insanity. And so unnecessary. Never imagined this kind of selfishness and division. I'm sorry.
Tue Oct 12, 2021, 12:58 PM
Oct 2021

That is truly heart breaking.

Texaswitchy

(2,962 posts)
68. Why is heart condition not as important as having the virus..
Tue Oct 12, 2021, 01:27 PM
Oct 2021

The non vaxers take more care and might not survive.

xmas74

(29,658 posts)
72. I'm in a local club with a woman
Tue Oct 12, 2021, 06:48 PM
Oct 2021

Whose 49 year old daughter died the same way. She had to wait for an ICU bed and didn't make it. She went into a coma while waiting and never came out.

hamsterjill

(15,214 posts)
77. This country IS jacked.
Wed Oct 13, 2021, 09:34 AM
Oct 2021

I’m so sorry and I cannot imagine the unbearable grief.

Something drastic needs to be done. Hospitals are going to have to have policies so that this does not happen.

I think a public announcement that a hospital will give priority to vaccinated patients, and then implement that policy. People are dying from ruptured appendix.

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