Friend: "Sis, is that you?"
Me: "Yeah. How can you not know it's me?"
Friend: "You sound different, like tired. Are you okay?"
Me: "Lack of sleep."
Friend: "Hang in there."
Woman Shares How Father Was Ignored & Died From COVID-19 At An Overwhelmed Public Hospital, published on Says, written by May Vin Ang — 29 Jul 2021, 12:34 PM
I thought my tears had dried up but a friend shared me this story via FB and now I can't stop crying, because people who kept claiming that everywhere is sunshine and daisies are WRONG. We're all desperate and tired, yet we kept going because we have to. This story is sad, and I'm not going to say one side is totally at fault here. I read through despite the tears kept flowing, I even went to to the original Mandarin post and read it. I can't say it's hundred percent that one side is at fault here, and healthcare workers really are tired and burnout. It came to the point where the demand is now higher than the supply, and everywhere is overflowing and congested. I get that both side are frustrated, believe me, I get it. I'm trying to keep it together but judging from the conversation, it seems that I'm mentally drained. Even my family commented on it. They said I looked freakishly pale and I looked as though I didn't get enough sleep. I tried, I like putting my favourite music on at night, but lately I seem to sleep for two or three hours and then ended up waking up and unable to sleep.
I took a call from a person who were increasingly becoming frustrated and was biting my head off, but I let them, because what else can I do? They have checked everywhere and everyone had said the same thing. They thought maybe we could perhaps give him some sort of miracle. They were agitated and started telling me how the family were feeling weak and they wanted to get a x-ray and blood tests done because they scared that it could be pneumonia. I have been getting a lot of these enquiries lately, especially during night times so I asked my doctors what can I do: Advise them to go to their local CAC to get checked. They went on how the CAC queue is so long that they refuse to send their families there because they are feeling weak. I don't blame them, to be honest, I would get frustrated too. I'm thankful that my family members are taking their health seriously, and we keep other in check, because trust me, you do not want to get Miss Rona. After they vented their frustrations, the person apologized for biting my head, but I told them politely, "It's okay, I understand you're frustrated. All of us are, except we are trying not to say it outloud." They understood and thanked me for my time. So, it's good I guess I managed to make someone's day...
One person really irked me, because they send an enquiry regarding antibodies. So I sent the flier just be sure I'm getting my facts right, then they said, no, they want another test regarding the Covid antibodies, so I showed another flier. Then I explained that you will need to get your second vaccination first, and after two weeks only then you should do the test. Then the person said, "I never took the vaccination, nor did I have covid, I'm just asking whether I can do the test to see if I can get naturally acquired immunity or not."
Mary, Mother of God.
Um, the only way to get naturally acquired immunity is to get it, like chicken pox, which I do not recommend. And I do not recommend getting Miss Rona, no way. I had pneumonia once and it was bad, and my doctor stressed to me several times, just because you got it once doesn't mean that you are hundred percent safe. Honest to God, if that's the case, then we don't need to be scared of diseases. Nothing is ever hundred percent in medical line. This is the one thing we have stressed over and over again. There is no miracle in medicines, we can only depend on science and research and facts, not Google, Facebook, Whatsapp, and certainly not psuedo-science.
I was hovering around Khairy's Twitter and usually I like to check on the people who I admired, like Uncle Steve, JK Rowling and the gang, so I hopped a little to one of the artists whom I admired, and oh gosh. I do not have Youtube, Twitter nor Tiktok accounts, so I'm going to say it from my previous posts. Stop bashing Social Repose already, God. His last video wasn't offensive, I got the context, and I understand he's strange, but for crying out loud, stop taking his narrative and twist everything out of turn. Why don't you all put himself in his shoes and see how it feels like? I mentioned it before, not everything is seen in a black and white mindset. He makes great music and art content, you don't know what you're missing out on. I was like that at one point, but the people around me told me several times, Not Everything Is Always Black and White. There will always be a grey area where no one will know. I'm glad I gave his content another chance because it is artistic and you can see the passion he poured into. Don't like someone, ignore and disengage. This is why stans scare me. JUDGE YE NOT LEST BE JUDGED. The funny thing is my doctors thought his music are great since I often put his music (and many others) on while working, and they joked maybe the mob should come down and help us out in the frontlines to make use of their productive time because we are seriously understaffed. I love my doctors, they're awesome.
*Today's case: 17,170 (Ah, I'm going to watch some comedy. This is depressing)
