man there’s been a lot of talk about how nurses are acutely suffering during COVID times but almost no one -- including and especially hospital administrators -- seem to grasp how royally this is going to fuck everyone over after COVID for years and years to come. experienced nurses don’t grow on trees! burnout, depression, compassion fatigue, and trauma are near universal, half the nurses and doctors I know crack jokes about how “it’s not a drinking problem, it’s a drinking habit!”, and the only thing anyone is talking about is “how can we leave here” -- travel nursing, retirement, cushy outpatient private practice. why break your soul working inpatient when you could get paid x4 your current rate to inject rich housewives with botox? anyone who’s got the credentials and experience to do so is jumping ship while they still can. like hey, anti-vaxxer, you survived COVID but end up in the CVICU for a massive heart attack five years from now. fantastic, your treatment team will be one divorced veteran nurse with PTSD who hates everyone now and the three junior nurses with borderline alcoholism and chronic workplace back injuries whose nursing skills all come from virtual simulations and preceptors showing them workarounds because no one had time to actually do anything properly. and everyone, including people who are pro-vaxx, who are as sick as I am with our fellow citizens’ bullshit, seems to think that once COVID goes away, the healthcare workforce will snap back to where it was before late 2019, and it won’t!!! you will be seeing the effects of COVID in our healthcare system for decades to come, and they will be bad.

Hawaii, USA 🇺🇸

North American P-51D Mustang and Douglas A-1 Skyraider.

San Francisco - California - USA (by Thomas Hawk) 

SUITS (2011-2019)

100 Calorie 4 ingredient biscuits

A simple biscuit recipe for those who want to enjoy biscuits but with the extra calories

Makes four

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Ingredients

1 cup self rising flour

½ tablespoon granulated sugar

½ cup plain Greek yogurt

¼ cup milk

A small pinch of salt

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 425°. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

In a large mixing bowl, whisk flour, salt and sugar together.

Add yogurt and half of the milk, stirring until the dough starts to come together.

Slowly add little amounts of the remaining milk until the dough forms. You may not need the entire amount of milk.

Knead the biscuit dough until smooth - it will be a little sticky. Don't overwork the dough.

Place the dough on a floured surface, using your hands, form the dough into a rectangle that’s width is twice it’s height and approximately ⅜ ‘s an inch thick, then fold the dough over to form a square. Slice the dough into four equal squares.

Place the cut out biscuit dough on a baking sheet, about an inch apart from each other. Bake for 10-15 minutes, or until golden brown.

Reddit’s nursing forum makes for some pretty grim reading.

Never forget that the Republicans used the covid pandemic to use eugenics to kill off hundreds of thousands of chronically ill and disabled people by insisting we should use "herd immunity" as our response and went on about how it was okay because "most people won't die" leaving out the fact that many of those who died were chronically ill and disabled. They didn't care about the lives of the chronically ill and disabled if it meant they preserved wealth for millionaires.

21.06.24

Strawberry supermoon is full moon in June.

Just some January 6, 2021 Twitter highlights

Live footage of the cops at the Capitol