[Mean Mr. Mustard]

Working in health care has been interesting to say the least. I can say with absolute certainty that we are very fortunate that we had access to vaccines prior to the delta wave (winter 2021) which seemed to primarily affect the unvaccinated population. Our resources at the time were stretched, intensive care units were over capacity, with different areas in the hospital being made into maskshift ICUs to meet the demand. There were plans for how to ration ventilators and we did have to ration specific medications. Now compare that to the scenes from India where there was a breakdown in their society with people dying on the streets and funeral pyres along with a failure of basic supplies like oxygen.

I am still upset at the segment of the population that put our healthcare system to the brink than then acted superior about it. The truth is that their selfishness didn’t cost us only because of the actions of the vast majority of the population.

I sometimes walk by places where we had 20+ patients intubated and proned in a large open room and think of how ####ed up it all was and how much worse it could have been.