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More than anything else, this pandemic highlights the failures of our system and shows us where we need to improve, particularly with regard to healthcare and workers' rights.
Our healthcare system is failing. We spend more than double any other country, yet our health outcomes rank 37th and millions of people have inadequate access to care.
Moreover, our workers, not only on the front lines, but across the board in a whole host of industries, such as the meat processing plants have inadequate pay and protections from abuses.
If anything, this should be a wakeup call to begin to take back from the 1% the country we once knew. But, with the way our politics go, I highly doubt anything will change and if anything, this will actually lead us in the opposite direction now that the billionaires and the lower classes are in a coalition in the GOP.
It will be interesting how nursing professions and college nursing programs respond after being shuttered at on hold at this point. Nearly all nursing programs in effected states have stopped training, cannot get clinical rotations in hospitals, and it is uncertain when those students will be allowed. Two hospitals I work with are estimating student rotations will not start until spring 2021 at the earliest.
Current nurses are really thinking twice about the profession and weather or not it is worth dying for. Female dominated profession, many with kids, and many with parents living with them. So they are weighing an entire families wellbeing for $50-65k a year and horrible conditions currently. Conditions in hospital for nurses is was already poor, now its down right insane. Remember Nurse DO NOT take a oath to die serving the public, you, me or, anyone at any time in their profession.
So we will not be graduating new nurses that are functional in hospitals for 1-2 years. Experienced nurses are contemplating if the profession is worth doing at the Hospital level. And we are already in a nursing and hospital personnel shortage. Also nurses live in communities too, nurses see when the public dont care about wearing mask, taking precaution, ect. They know those people will be adding to their patient load and it become more depressing for nurses who are trying to stay alive while battling this disease.
Good luck everyone.
Your reactionary response calling anyone with whom you disagree a 'communist' really makes you look quite dumb. None of us in this room, I would be willing to say, are communists. Those of us, who do comparative analysis and look at the facts can understand that our deteriorating system of health and rights of workers undermines our economy, our health and the strength of our nation.
The billionaires have managed to convince people that plutocracy is best and when they are doing better and better at the expense of the rest of us, somehow that is a good thing. We have tested that for 40 years and it has failed. If the evidence showed that it worked, then great, but unfortunately, it shows otherwise.
The failings in the health care system are primarily economic. We're not just spending money for medical expertise, but for an army of well-paid lawyers and bureaucrats. As a result our costs are among the highest, if not the highest, in the western world. But things won't change because lobbyists in DC want to keep things the way they are; they're getting paid by the moneyed interests who are profiting from this situation.
what this pandemic truly shows is the quivering mass of stupidity, ignorance, and cowardice of the mod mentality. it also shows the gullibility of the average person these days, and how willing they are to give up their rights for the promise of a suggestion of safety, and turn over their lives to the government.
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