'A Year Ago I Was a Hero. Now I'm Treated Like Scum.'

[anatta]

At the outset of the pandemic, Becca Pitts, a 21-year-old certified nursing assistant from Crawfordsville, Ind., worked 60-hour weeks, doing 12- and sometimes 16-hour shifts in nursing homes and hospital wards helping patients shower and eat. She had to wear the same surgical mask for up to a week because of shortages. She was emotionally drained. She didn’t always have a surgical gown.
For this work, she was hailed as a superhero. During the holidays last year, office personnel doled out goodie bags. Another facility she worked for held raffles for televisions and top-of-the-line microwaves. And they gave out cash prizes to employees—just for showing up.

When Pitts’s family heard she was exhausted and feeling down, they wrote her thank you cards. They told her they were proud of her.
Now, those same family members say they don’t want to be around Pitts at all. “A year ago I was a hero, and now I’m being treated like scum,” she says.

That’s because Pitts refuses to get vaccinated. “.....

'A Year Ago I Was a Hero. Now I'm Treated Like Scum.'

Frontline workers are choosing to lose their jobs rather than get the vaccine. Why?

bariweiss.substack.com

 

[anatta]

sad state of affairs for so many who gave so much

 

[phoenix2020]

At the outset of the pandemic, Becca Pitts, a 21-year-old certified nursing assistant from Crawfordsville, Ind., worked 60-hour weeks, doing 12- and sometimes 16-hour shifts in nursing homes and hospital wards helping patients shower and eat. She had to wear the same surgical mask for up to a week because of shortages. She was emotionally drained. She didn’t always have a surgical gown.
For this work, she was hailed as a superhero. During the holidays last year, office personnel doled out goodie bags. Another facility she worked for held raffles for televisions and top-of-the-line microwaves. And they gave out cash prizes to employees—just for showing up.

When Pitts’s family heard she was exhausted and feeling down, they wrote her thank you cards. They told her they were proud of her.
Now, those same family members say they don’t want to be around Pitts at all. “A year ago I was a hero, and now I’m being treated like scum,” she says.

That’s because Pitts refuses to get vaccinated. “.....

'A Year Ago I Was a Hero. Now I'm Treated Like Scum.'

Frontline workers are choosing to lose their jobs rather than get the vaccine. Why?

bariweiss.substack.com

Good article and news. I hope she finds employment in an environment more befitting her life choices. Perhaps seasonal farm work with a great deal of social distancing? Or, an at-home data entry job. That way, she doesn’t risk vulnerable people, and some farm gets a much needed seasonal worker. Win-win.

Thanks for sharing the good news! Stories like these improve my confidence in our health care system.

 

[anatta]

Good article and news. I hope she finds employment in an environment more befitting her life choices. Perhaps seasonal farm work with a great deal of social distancing? Or, an at-home data entry job. That way, she doesn’t risk vulnerable people, and some farm gets a much needed seasonal worker. Win-win.

Thanks for sharing the good news! Stories like these improve my confidence in our health care system.

a good health care system would not cast anyone out over vaxxing. there are shortages of HC workers and it's going to get worse.
But if you want to fire them over vaxxing which does not stop transmissions, dont complain when they arent they for you

The Shortage of Healthcare Workers in the U.S. | Duquesne University School of Nursing

The healthcare worker shortage in the U.S. represents a deficit in professionals that includes physicians, nurses, healthcare educators, and midwives.

onlinenursing.duq.edu

 

[phoenix2020]

a good health care system would not cast anyone out over vaxxing. there are shortages of HC workers and it's going to get worse.
But if you want to fire them over vaxxing which does not stop transmissions, dont complain when they arent they for you

The Shortage of Healthcare Workers in the U.S. | Duquesne University School of Nursing

The healthcare worker shortage in the U.S. represents a deficit in professionals that includes physicians, nurses, healthcare educators, and midwives.

onlinenursing.duq.edu

Yup exactly. Fire them - plenty of young graduates entering the workforce with a long prosperous career ahead of them who will take their place. And again, these ex-healthcare workers can still do good. Our farms need workers.

Fortunately according to your article the vast majority of doctors (96%!) are vaccinated so the backbone of our medical system is intact.

 

[Taylor]

Yup exactly. Fire them - plenty of young graduates

There haven't been "plenty of young graduates" in nursing in like - forever.

The U.S. Is Running Out of Nurses

The country has experienced nursing shortages for decades, but an aging population means the problem is about to get much worse.

www.theatlantic.com

 

[AGENT J]

At the outset of the pandemic, Becca Pitts, a 21-year-old certified nursing assistant from Crawfordsville, Ind., worked 60-hour weeks, doing 12- and sometimes 16-hour shifts in nursing homes and hospital wards helping patients shower and eat. She had to wear the same surgical mask for up to a week because of shortages. She was emotionally drained. She didn’t always have a surgical gown.
For this work, she was hailed as a superhero. During the holidays last year, office personnel doled out goodie bags. Another facility she worked for held raffles for televisions and top-of-the-line microwaves. And they gave out cash prizes to employees—just for showing up.

When Pitts’s family heard she was exhausted and feeling down, they wrote her thank you cards. They told her they were proud of her.
Now, those same family members say they don’t want to be around Pitts at all. “A year ago I was a hero, and now I’m being treated like scum,” she says.

That’s because Pitts refuses to get vaccinated. “.....

'A Year Ago I Was a Hero. Now I'm Treated Like Scum.'

Frontline workers are choosing to lose their jobs rather than get the vaccine. Why?

bariweiss.substack.com

Not shocking at all really, makes sense

its awesome how hard she worked and she can get credit for that choice of sacrifice and helping
just like she can get credit for choosing not to get vaccinated not sacrificing and not helping

one doesnt magically erase the others

I understand that it makes her feel a certain way but those were all her choices and she has to accept the good with the bad of those choices, cant blame the medical industry field for following medical science

hopefully, she can move on to another career where her choices wont impact her negatively

 

[j brown's body]

The purpose of healthcare work is to stop illness, not cause it.

 

[AGENT J]

a good health care system would not cast anyone out over vaxxing.

yes it would and it has my entire life, not only health care but other companies too. its GOOD to not ignore medical science
im an engineer and i worked for a company that made medical products and we were required to get certain vaxs and shots or we couldn't work there.
This was because sometimes our products came straight form the hospital or patient for repair/evaluation

we had to be vaxed and also get tetanus, flu, pneumonia and hep b shots

 

[CaughtInThe]

The purpose of healthcare work is to stop illness, not cause it.

they don't care. some die and destroy their own families.

 

[Taylor]

sad state of affairs for so many who gave so much

For many, they're learning a valuable lesson about today's Democrats.

“They say that I’m a Donald Trump fan, a MAGA-supporter, or that I don’t believe science and I listen to QAnon.” Gomez, who lives in the South Bronx, is a registered Democrat and former de Blasio intern in the Office of Immigrant Affairs.

 

[snakestretcher]

sad state of affairs for so many who gave so much

Tough. The idiot is working with vulnerable patients whose health, already compromised, her arrogant and irresponsible stubbornness could further seriously damage. And you think that's praiseworthy?

 

[snakestretcher]

For many, they're learning a valuable lesson about today's Democrats.

And she just learned a valuable lesson in personal responsibility.

 

[AGENT J]

For many, they're learning a valuable lesson about today's Democrats.

What does this have to do with democrats?

 

[mike2810]

For many, they're learning a valuable lesson about today's Democrats.

Why make it about politics by saying Democrat's?
Seems to me it was Trump with Operation Warp Speed pushed the mRNA vaccine development. Should we blame Republicans for the development?

I would suggest those quoted in the article who are against vaccination to do some more research. True, we don't know the "long term" impact of the vaccine. We also do not know the long term impact of covid-19. What research I have done the vast majority of doctors and research papers I have read show the vaccine to be safe.

 

[Taylor]

What does this have to do with democrats?

LMAO!

Another valuable lesson. Democrats don't read.

 

[Fledermaus]

sad state of affairs for so many who gave so much

Stupid has its cost.

 

[snakestretcher]

LMAO!

Another valuable lesson. Democrats don't read.

Oh, they read just fine. In fact they just read about an irresponsible idiot who thought it was ok to work with vulnerable patients, un-vaccinated-and whom you appear to sympathise with. People like her are guaranteeing the prolonging of the pandemic, and are stifling the best efforts of those doing their damn best to put a lid on the virus. What's even worse is that as a trained (presumably), nursing assistant, she doesn't appear to know any better. That's disturbing. I hear Walmart are hiring...

 

[AGENT J]

LMAO!

Another valuable lesson. Democrats don't read.

Translation: you cant support your failed and moronic post, thats what i thought thanks for proving me right LMAO

please let us know when you can

 

[Callen]

I very much appreciate her dedication and service along with all the healthcare workers who worked tirelessly. However, we now have a vaxxine and booster that can better protect one from spreading the virus. I am not a big supporter of mandates but I do understand why an employer would impose one particularly in a healthcare setting where those who you may infect are particularly vulnerable.

 

[code1211]

At the outset of the pandemic, Becca Pitts, a 21-year-old certified nursing assistant from Crawfordsville, Ind., worked 60-hour weeks, doing 12- and sometimes 16-hour shifts in nursing homes and hospital wards helping patients shower and eat. She had to wear the same surgical mask for up to a week because of shortages. She was emotionally drained. She didn’t always have a surgical gown.
For this work, she was hailed as a superhero. During the holidays last year, office personnel doled out goodie bags. Another facility she worked for held raffles for televisions and top-of-the-line microwaves. And they gave out cash prizes to employees—just for showing up.

When Pitts’s family heard she was exhausted and feeling down, they wrote her thank you cards. They told her they were proud of her.
Now, those same family members say they don’t want to be around Pitts at all. “A year ago I was a hero, and now I’m being treated like scum,” she says.

That’s because Pitts refuses to get vaccinated. “.....

'A Year Ago I Was a Hero. Now I'm Treated Like Scum.'

Frontline workers are choosing to lose their jobs rather than get the vaccine. Why?

bariweiss.substack.com

The sheeple in our society are being required to not think and to simply obey whatever the propaganda pooped into our collective consciousness might be today.

We are living in interesting times.

 

[Taylor]

Stupid has its cost.

As we'll see in November.

 

[Callen]

The sheeple in our society are being required to not think and to simply obey whatever the propaganda pooped into our collective consciousness might be today.

Agreed.....yet day after day they tune in Fox to get their daily mind fix.

 

[Taylor]

In fact they just read about an irresponsible idiot

Ah yes, today's Democrats. It must suck being angry all the time.

 

[BlueTex]

a good health care system would not cast anyone out over vaxxing. there are shortages of HC workers and it's going to get worse.
But if you want to fire them over vaxxing which does not stop transmissions, dont complain when they arent they for you

The Shortage of Healthcare Workers in the U.S. | Duquesne University School of Nursing

The healthcare worker shortage in the U.S. represents a deficit in professionals that includes physicians, nurses, healthcare educators, and midwives.

onlinenursing.duq.edu

Bullshit... Hospitals have had vaccination policies well before COVID... Be a dumbass, you get fired...