Recent content by heron

I agree - I hit the post button by accident before finishing. I hit the edit button to finish my thought, but for some reason, the incomplete post was put up following the finished one. Sorry!

During the pandemic, before the vaccine became available, we had a not-very-good CNA working in my small (58 beds) facility. She went on vacation out-of-state, decided to return to work while sick with Covid (positive test). A month later, 30 out of 58 residents were dead. This is why...

I’m recently retired nurse. About ten years back, a few weeks after a norovirus outbreak in my facility, I happened to get sick with it on a holiday weekend when I was on-call to cover other nurses’ call-ins. Rather than call in myself, I decided to be a hero and go to work. My symptoms resolved...

I was raised Roman Catholic, in a fairly parochial part of that community. I had pretty much rejected most of that tradition by my late teens. Since then, I have come to view “religion” as synonymous with mythology. That is: a set of stories that serve to help individuals make sense their lives...

Not being able to tell the difference between weather and climate is fairly typical of climate change deniers. It speaks of third-hand disinformation and willful ignorance.

I agree that the interpretation you laid out comes closer to the progressive’s real proposal. But, somehow, “defund the police” became accepted shorthand for the idea for some reason … and allowing that was exceedingly dumb.

Are you all aware that right now, the only people calling for defunding the police are far-right extremists? I always thought that “defund the police” was an exceedingly dumb idea back when the lefties were the ones calling for it. Nothing has changed now that right-wingers are mad at the DOJ...

My son, his ex and their two kids live in Texas near Austin. I hear from my son that they are up in Temple. I worry, obviously, but not too, too much. Both my son and ex-DIL are both former marines and my son is an ex-coastie on top of that. They have lots of survival skills and so do their...

Personally, I think drunk driving is seriously undercharged where I live. I think those Germans are onto something. The person who decides to get drunk/high then get behind the wheel of a car needs to be held responsible for the damage when badness happens. Thank whatever deity you like, one...

Well … at the very least her career as a big-bucks travel nurse is over.

Umm … not only do the Marines allow women, but I think they were the first service that did so. When my mother joined during WWII, they got the exact same training as the men. Not sure, but I think they still do. Have to ask my son or his ex. As for staffing the Marine Corps with “criminals” -...

My son picked the Marines. Best decision he ever made.

I don’t think it’s her first offense, at least not her first accident.

I think you’re both right. The editor knows what sells both papers and clicks … a necessary insight if you want to keep the lights on and your kids fed.

I think it’s a riff on the Madonna/whore trope. There’s a popular stereotype of nurses as selfless angels of mercy, endlessly nuturing and compassionate. When a real person falls short of that image, all hades breaks loose and s/he becomes a demon.