The 'hero' rhetoric distracts from the forces that are really responsible for their plight: government negligence, inequality, and a health care system driven by profit.
against the state and two hospital systems, alleging that PPE shortages and dangerous work guidelines helped the virus spread.spoke to five nurses in New York City who say these failures reflect structural injustice that goes deeper than the current PPE shortage. They believe the “hero” rhetoric distracts from the forces that are really responsible for their plight: government negligence, inequality, and a health care system driven by profit.is an E.R.
“These patients are suffering; they're alone; there are no visitors whatsoever. I had a lady over 100 years old, Cantonese speaking. I went to check on her, and she was behind a plastic curtain, just sobbing and self-soothing all alone, coughing up blood. When you're holding 10 patients, how do you comfort somebody who's going through that? What can we do? We can give them oxygen and hope for the best.
? More people will die for sure. Opening up the economy is saying, ‘We don't mind if some people die.’ It's not the rich people you know working from home on their Zoom calls who are going to die. It's not. “If there were a better and earlier preparation that stopped people from getting sick, this would not have happened. And they knew — people knew it was coming;“Don't capitalize off me with your ‘thank you.’ [Corporations are] capitalizing off of the death of health care workers and the stress and the sacrifice of the PTSD with your ‘thank you.’ You're making money off of me while you're handing me more work by not protecting your workers and not giving them what they need.
“I fear that once the worst is over, everybody is going to forget and go back on to life as usual. And that's why all of us nurses — political nurses — are exhausting ourselves right now trying to talk about this…. It's murder.”
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