My condolences. I lost an aunt last week. No doubt the virus is real even if it only seems to put to rest those on relatively borrowed time through one condition or another. You may have better insight within the walls of medicine.
Cousin Ricky led a very hard life.
When he was a teenager, he was in exelerated classes and his future was looking bright, but he got into an accident and lost control of his body. He was still as sharp as ever, but his body wouldn't respond the way he wanted it to. It was almost impossible for him to communicate, but he was able to through his caretaker, my great uncle Marty (he passed last year).
He was only in his 50s when he died of covid, so he had time left; but his body wasn't equipped to fight it.
At least his suffering is over, but life has been especially unfair to him.
As for my hospital insights, I'm only dietary, but I am right by the ER so I do get to see a lot of interesting things. They put all the covid patients on the 3rd floor, though. Thankfully this outbreak isn't as bad as the last; we learned a lot from the first time, and the union has been holding the hospital accountable (we have a safety committee now, which I will be joining, hopefully).
The outbreak happened entirely due to incompetence on behalf of the hospital, though; that and greed. They tried to cut corners, put people at risk, and then people got sick and died. This is what happens when health becomes a business, I guess.
