Are you personally worried about getting the Coronavirus?

[RobHowe]

No, it just shows how tone deaf and unprofessional they are.

Any idea how many hospital and care facilities there around the country trying to treat people. What percentage of the Tik Tok videos does does that represent? With as many times as you’ve posted the same Tik Tok videos, you must know.

 

[tksirius]

 

[Hawk1960]

Tik Tok videos prove there are no overworked health care professionals in the country. None of them are in danger or have died.

Carry on.

There are certainly some front line health care workers dealing with the COVID patients and I salute them. The under reported thing happening right now is that many of the health care workers who support elective surgeries, and even ERs are twirling their thumbs or being furloughed. It's hurting the rural hospitals especially. Even Mayo is losing $150 million per week right now. Mayo can survive this for awhile but some of these rural hospitals with borderline financials to begin with may end up closing if this goes on much longer.

This is an objective report from a local NBC affiliate in Colorado.

 

[ssckelley]

Tik Tok videos prove there are no overworked health care professionals in the country. None of them are in danger or have died.

Carry on.

I love the irony of someone who will question the credibility of newspapers or government but will use tik tok videos and tweets as facts.

 

[tksirius]

I love the irony of someone who will question the credibility of newspapers or government but will use tik tok videos and tweets as facts.

Are you saying these nurses really aren't orchestrating dance videos on Tik Tok?

 

[tksirius]

 

[kicker22]

Can someone please explain to me the dancing nurses/Tik Tok pandemic... I don't think we've seen near enough in this thread. Talk about a broken record.

 

[HuckFinn]

Well. That is a silly sentence.

 

[tksirius]

Can someone please explain to me the dancing nurses/Tik Tok pandemic... I don't think we've seen near enough in this thread. Talk about a broken record.

They have to make the videos because they're overwhelmed. It's just terrible. I feel so bad for them.

 

[HuckFinn]

I love the irony of someone who will question the credibility of newspapers or government but will use tik tok videos and tweets as facts.

Sure is a lot of that going on these days. In fact, there is a lot of irony out there to discuss.

 

[ssckelley]

Can someone please explain to me the dancing nurses/Tik Tok pandemic... I don't think we've seen near enough in this thread. Talk about a broken record.

They are great, hopefully whoever is producing them will make more. I'm sure TK has evidence that these videos are made by actual nurses in overwhelmed hospitals and not made up or by nurses who work in a hospital that isn't overwhelmed or by someone just trying to make nurses look bad.

It's like people have never goofed off on the job before. lol

 

[Ree4]

Haven’t you learned by now not to take Trump so literal?

If by not take what Trump says so literal you mean ignore everything he says, then yes, I learned to not take Trump so literal.

 

[RobHowe]

Brian Finley, who has worked for HN when I've been here and with me elsewhere going to back to about '04, has a pregnant wife who works at UIHC as an RN. She's been working a lot of extra hours as have quite a few of our friends that work over there the last month or so. Brian is at home working as an IT professional for UI while taking care of a three and a half year old.

That's a real story of what's going on.

 

[tksirius]

We have a niece that is an ER nurse at UIHC. She says it is still slow and "they're just waiting for it to get busy."
That's a real story of what's going on. I highly doubt she would lie about this either since she also tells us we need to take this seriously.

 

[RobHowe]

Sorry. Brian Finley, a real person, is lying. His pregnant wife isn't working overtime at UIHC and he's not home alone with a three and half year old all the time. An anonymous message board poster said so. Carry on.

 

[tksirius]

I never said he was lying. I'm just stating what my niece said just a couple of days ago.

 

[RobHowe]

No. You didn't say he was lying. You anonymously told about someone, who may or may not be real, to counter a story I told of a real person with a name, to downplay what some healthcare workers are facing. Just like posting, ad nauseam, Tik Tok videos of nurses as evidence that Covid is a hoax not because you're trying to show they are tone deaf. Don't be disingenuous. Your charge on this thread is crystal clear. Just own it.

There certainly are aspects of what's going on with the pandemic that should be questioned. Downplaying the role of front line workers in health care is weak and lame.

Can we get some tik toks of grocery store workers dancing? How about restaurant workers? Let's make fun of them, too.

 

[judzeehawk]

I never said he was lying. I'm just stating what my niece said just a couple of days ago.

TK you need to step away from your key board for a couple of days. I think you need some rest.

 

[Ree4]

Just saw on TV some woman interviewed who says a lot of working families only have a week or two of money left (editorial , some do not have any left after just two weeks).

Well this virus and the economy partial shutdown put a spotlight on 1) how poorly most people save money ( the old rainy day motto) 2) how stagnant to negative the real inflation adjusted income is for most households and workers has been since 1981 era and 3) that in 1985 about 5% of total wealth was in the hands of the top 1-5% of people but now it is about 25% in the hands of so few people.

And the same thing goes for businesses which didnt put money in cash reserves but instead into stock buybacks and then the stocks just went down 30%. Smart business people put some profits into cash reserves on the balance sheet rather than stock dividends, bonuses and more salary to the top executives.

People bitch all the time about how much Kirk Ferentz makes in a year - he would have to work for 4800 years to equate the gain in net worth that Jeff Bezoz has had in the last month (24 billion net gain) while many of his own employees are struggling to feed their families. Makes sense!

 

[HawkU]

Well. That is a silly sentence.

I suppose if someone doesn't understand the sentence or the implications of a bloodless coup enabled by manufactured fear porn then yes - it's a very silly sentence.