Thank you
by vermin05 (2024-01-01 14:27:02)
Edited on 2024-01-01 14:30:47

In reply to: Hey vermin 05  posted by BeijingIrish

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I am a physician, but I also graduated a history double major. The story of the people on the front lines is almost always papered over as not enough accounts survive the test of time like the accounts of the generals and politicians to society’s great detriment as I feel most accounts from the higher ups really demphasize the true horrors of war. Thank you for sharing and although I know cliched thank you for what you did.

I hope you know I wasn’t trying to offend you. I still cannot imagine what you went through. I wish I could honor your openness on this subject by sharing some additional details on my Covid experience but unfortunately, that would violate the privacy of the patients I cared for. By invoking your service history I was trying to draw an analogy because while I can’t tell what your personal feelings are I’ve talked to enough veterans to know the vague general feelings most feel. While not trying to say that I experienced those feelings or horrors myself in the same severity, I do know that during 2020 I felt hopeless, and fearful while at the same time isolated from most of society. Something I suspected you had felt in the past in worse severity, and that was what I was trying to convey, no more no less.

We came very close to the health system in this country completely melting down, I mean it did melt down in New York City (sending Covid positive pts to nursing homes, hearing traumas and STEMIs dying on the parking lot) but it didn’t happen again and it’s my sincere belief that it would have if we didn’t lock down. For one thing the safety valve that saved us was traveling nurses who skipped from hot spot to hot spot, if the entire country blew up at once they couldn’t have been the backup, as they would have needed to stay at their home hospital. Thats not even taking into account supply issues.

Additionaly, I’m sorry if I got a bit aggressive anytime someone comes out saying that quarantining was a mistake from the get go I take attacks on the health response personally as it feels like a belittlement of my experience and a lack of empathy to the dead and disabled who got unlucky and got the disease. I know that was not your intent.

A very gracious response.
by BeijingIrish  (2024-01-01 17:33:18)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Cannot reply

If I get sick, I want you as my doctor. And KK and ewillND as my nurses.
Happy New Year.

That would be a very poor life decision. *
by kellykapowski  (2024-01-03 18:37:55)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Cannot reply

I laughed. *
by BeijingIrish  (2024-01-03 19:36:06)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Cannot reply

Happy New Year to you as well *
by vermin05  (2024-01-01 17:39:54)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Cannot reply

Interesting coda to previous. Both of you have exceptionall
by sorin69  (2024-01-01 16:14:06)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Cannot reply

strenuous life experiences. Part of what I like about this board is getting entree to things I was spared. The rawer they are, the harder to talk about. Late in life I have finally made myself read up on the great divisive experience of my generation, the war in Vietnam. It is tough reading is all I can say. I did watch all seventeen installments of the Burns-Novick series on the war.

Say, have you considered changing your handle? Seriously.
I agree
by jt  (2024-01-01 17:18:21)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Cannot reply

anytime verm, BI, or you Sorin69 make a post it is a must read for me.
Vermin=Carroll Hall
by vermin05  (2024-01-01 16:29:19)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Cannot reply

So no, I’m rather attached. It’s not some self loathing thing at all.
The best hall ever. Alibeeba! *
by Giggity_Giggity  (2024-01-01 19:39:56)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Cannot reply

Amen *
by vermin05  (2024-01-01 19:46:47)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Cannot reply

Didn't know that. Did Carroll Hall even exist in my era?
by sorin69  (2024-01-01 18:49:13)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Cannot reply

Anyway, it's a helluva handle for a doctor. Now made famous by our quondam soon to be president again Donald Trump.

Kind of amusing to see the liberal knees kick like crazy went Trump's tongue wagged the other day about vermin. (Okay, it's not the OP, but cut me some slack.) Yes, little Adolf did throw it around in M.K. I remember years ago when I heard some radio shock jock talk about "liberal vermin" and thought Wow, that's over the top. Not any more. Get used to it, as they say on that other board I never visit.

Vermin Unite! *
by rflor  (2024-01-01 21:28:43)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Cannot reply

I'm not convinced it ever existed
by ravenium  (2024-01-01 20:33:01)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Cannot reply

Too far to walk.

The greatest trick Carroll Hall ever pulled was convincing
by Milhouse  (2024-01-01 21:00:01)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Cannot reply

Res Life that it didn't exist.
If only that had stayed true *
by ratinatux  (2024-01-02 08:23:46)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Cannot reply

Amen to that * *
by Vermin96  (2024-01-01 22:12:59)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Cannot reply