Alas, you most assuredly cannot make it up 
‘I’m off to the land of freedom: Singapore’
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I think you’re looking for “Disseminated” here. Technically, “Decimated” means to reduce by 1/10th, although it is often used to mean something more along the lines of “Destroyed” or “Reduced by 90%”.
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Yes, thanks. I’ll edit it.
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From the article I posted, 219 of those 644 deaths have occurred since 11/1. That makes the death rate from COVID about 13 people per day for the month of November, so far. What’s the leading cause of death in SD? In 2017 it was cancer, which killed almost 5 people per day: Stats of the State of South Dakota
So right now COVID is the leading cause of death in SD by quite a margin unless deaths from other causes have greatly increased. It’s no surprise that this rate of death would stick out to an average health care worker, especially when those dying are still in denial as to their cause of death.
I don’t buy it either. It makes no sense.
I have a night off from the hospital. As I’m on my couch with my dog I can’t help but think of the Covid patients the last few days. The ones that stick out are those who still don’t believe the virus is real. The ones who scream at you for a magic medicine and that Joe Biden is going to ruin the USA. All while gasping for breath on 100% Vapotherm (a high-flow respiratory aid). They call you names and ask why you have to wear all that “stuff” because they don’t have COViD because it’s not real. Yes. This really happens. And I can’t stop thinking about it. These people really think this isn’t going to happen to them. And then they stop yelling at you when they get intubated. It’s like an [expletive] horror movie that never ends. There’s no credits that roll. You just go back and do it all over again.
– JODI DOERING
“They’re dying breaths are literally ‘find out what’s wrong with me,‘” Doering said. “And when you say it’s COVID, people say, ‘No, that can’t be it.’”
Do humans actually act like this when they’re dying after/during several days of chronic/severe respiratory distress? Is this MAGA County? Did she also find any nooses amongst their belongings when they were warded?
Even if her description of events is somewhat true, they could simply be in denial that they were infected because they KNOW they can potentially die.
In terms of probability, I don’t buy that any of this can be interpreted to mean “they don’t think COVID is real up to their dying breaths”.
So she’s either making everything up or changing the sequence of events like maybe some of them didn’t think COVID is real until their symptoms started escalating.
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Does that question really need asking? The only REAL question is, how many did she find?
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I would have found it more believable if she had written, “Even with their dying breaths, they were still convinced Trump would arrive to lead them to Valhalla.”
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Wait…she didn’t write that? I could’ve sworn I read it in her article.
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And I wanna state for the record that the death rate, given the stats, isn’t normal and is most probably due to complications from COVID.
I just don’t believe the specific story of this specific healthcare worker.
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I also believe COVID deniers exist.
You mean you didn’t read the part about the group of intubated patients huddling together praying to Trump to absolve them of their sins before they died of symptoms of unknown origin?
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Having spent my formative years in South Dakota, and having lived there again for a year under a Trump Presidency, I wholeheartedly believe these deniers exist.
Hell, I’d put money on my cousin being one.
This is what I meant. I’m entirely convinced that there are COVID deniers.
I did read that!
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Now I’m just hoping all the people who read our conversation don’t think we’re COVID deniers.
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I mean, how does this pan out in real life?
The victim isn’t dying FROM COVID. He’s dying, from what I’m gathering from her story, from respiratory failure CAUSED by COVID.
Why the fuck are you telling him “it’s COVID” given the fact that you’ve said you told these patients many times already prior to that and probably showed them the state of their lungs from X-rays and shit?
You’d be saying something like, “You’re currently experiencing acute respiratory distress so shut the fuck up if you don’t want to suffocate” or some shit like that.
Someone’s dying from liver failure due to cancer that’s spread to the liver. Asks you “find out what’s wrong with me?” during his dying breaths. What you do tell him? “It’s cancer”? You’d get bitch slapped back to nursing school by anyone else of sound mind present.
Let’s just say, for the sake of argument that it went something like she described.
It would imply that HE DID BELIEVE IN COVID since the media keeps bringing up the death toll so he’s fucking asking for a second opinion since he’s knows most likely going to die.
What the fuck is so hard to understand about this?
Well you can definitely tell you aren’t in the US. Probably half my county either doesn’t believe it exists or certainly doesn’t think it’s worth doing something like wearing a mask.
I edited in that as I felt it was necessary because one guy replied to me implying that I don’t believe COVID deniers exist just because I don’t believe the way events unfolded in the nurse’s story.
2 GOVERNMENTS in 2 separate countries in my region denied the existence of COVID for months after Jan.
My apologies for not being clear. I wasn’t trying to imply that you didn’t believe COVID deniers exist.
I was just trying to state that I do believe her story. Rural SD is out there.
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I don’t have any doubt that there are lots of loons. But her description of events is highly questionable when taking probability into consideration.
I’ve even given her a way out by stating she could have misstated the sequence of events(see my reply to you above) and her account of one specific event might be true but misinterpreted.