Posted on 04/02/2020 5:10:38 AM PDT by Kaslin
For the last two weeks my cellphone has been ringing non-stop as healthcare recruiters from all over the Northeast have been trying to contact me. Pay rates for RNs, LPNs, PCTs, and CNAs in New York City have almost doubled seemingly overnight and they keep going up. Salaried doctors and nurses already on staff are facing some pay cuts, but NYC hospitals and nursing homes are desperate, and many recruiters are about to make a killing adding desperately-needed support staff that deal directly with pateints. Something’s not adding up.
Less than a month ago, at the now infamous Elmhurst Hospital in Queens where patients with the Chinese virus are reportedly dropping like flies, the same recruiters were only willing to pay nursing assistants and patient care techs the federally mandated minimum wage with zero medical benefits, zero paid time off, and zero opportunities for a pay raise or professional advancement.
To put this into perspective, just a month ago, a person pouring hot beverages at an upscale coffee house or bagging groceries at a high-end food emporium in New York City made more money than a healthcare worker who was exposed to some of the same chaos and life threatening illnesses as is being reported on the news today.
The 24-hour news cycle shows Mayor Bill de Blasio and Governor Andrew Cuomo falling all over themselves to commend the “bravery and selflessness” of New York City’s frontline medical personnel. But why has it taken this pandemic for all of this praise and money to be heaped upon people who have been overworked and underpaid for years?
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Come to Elmhurst Hospital... your stay will take ypur breath away...
“Overworked and underpaid for years”
Read your own headline.
Keep importing low skill, low wage third worlders and that’s what you get. More willing available workers than open positions, price goes down.
It aint rocket science.
Look, when everyone starts to believe the federal government will ultimately pick up the tab (FEMA) then price is no longer any concern.
From the article:
“The Democrats have managed to talk out of both sides of their mouth regarding this issue, demonstrating their absolute best identity politics skills. They are teaching the master class how to keep the boot on the necks of the working maggots, as they feign compassion for the very people that they are crushing.”
I’ve never read a truer description of the contemporary American Left.
In their defense, the staff in these hospitals, I imagine (and my imagination for this can be pretty good), are seeing things on an hourly basis they are only used to seeing a couple times a month. Remember the usual business of hospitals is babies and gall bladders, her and there someone dying of colon cancer or lung cancer but all of it happening like “life as usual”.
What these people are dealing with now is “their worst moments” coming at them one after the next, non stop. There will be emotional fall out, judgement years down the road impacted, this is going to change them profoundly. For them nothing is ever going to be the same again.
Excellent points, all.
Re: For them [medical workers] nothing is ever going to be the same again.
Actually, what they saw during peak seasonal influenza weeks during late January and early February looked exactly like what they are seeing now.
According to the CDC, the death toll for seasonal influenza this year is between 24,000 and 62,000.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-estimates.htm
Goddam commie shill.
A pretty good description of things in a hospital. I work in one. In the ER. Because of that I’ve been exposed to Covid four times in the last two weeks. I tested positive but ‘’asymptomatic’’ which means I don’t have symptoms. But none the less I’ve had to be monitored by having my temperature taken twice a day for the last two weeks, thank God it’s been 98/6 or 97.5.
I’ve also been in quarantine for the last week and will be for another week. yeah, last time I was in the ER it was... hopping to say the least.
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