Tennessee ICUs Full Of Vaccine Regret

[left-of-center2012]

It’s a struggle for Joe Gammon to talk right now. Lying in his ICU bed at Ascension Saint Thomas West, he uses a suction tube to clear his own throat. Even dislodging some phlegm has become a struggle.

Gammon is fighting for his life. His lungs are too damaged from COVID for a ventilator. So now, thick tubes run out a hole in his neck, pumping his blood through an ECMO machine to be oxygenated. A mask over his nose forces air into his lungs as they’re given time to heal.

“If I would have known six months ago that this could be possible, this would have been a no-brainer,” the 45-year-old father of six says after weeks in critical condition. “But I honestly didn’t think I was at any risk.” Gammon is a truck driver from Lascassas who says he listens to a lot of conservative talk radio. And the daily diatribes downplaying the pandemic and promoting personal freedom were enough dissuade him from vaccination.

Critical care nurse Angie Gicewicz tells the story of
an elderly woman who was admitted in recent weeks.
She said, ‘I guess I should have taken that vaccine.’ That woman never recovered.
She died at this hospital.

https://wpln.org/post/tennessee-icus-full-of-vaccine-regret/

[left-of-center2012]

1. "If I would have known six months ago that this could be possible ..."

[thenelm1]

21. Apparently the guy was stuck away isolated in a cave for the last year...n/t

[Blue_Adept]

47. He pretty much was

Truck driver doing long haul runs listening to conservative radio that's largely available all over in remote areas.

That's a mobile cave.

[LiberatedUSA]

50. Sideshow Bob...

…”Noooo, I was in a cave, on Mars, with my eyes shut and my fingers in my ears.”

[East-A-Squared]

2. They have ragrets?

[OneBro]

22. I wonder if anyone ever told her?

Her closest friends probably helped her spell it.

[Peccadillo]

27. This is fine

She researched it on Facebook.

[RainCaster]

29. She found it on Fecebook

[captain queeg]

3. It's too bad RW radio and TV can't be held accountable.

They obviously don’t care how many lives they’ve helped destroy.

[LisaL]

4. So what's the end game here?

One can't live on an ecmo machine forever.

[Karadeniz]

8. His lungs will become more scarred until there's no room for oxygen at all. He'll die.

[BigmanPigman]

13. I wonder if he knows that.

Doesn't sound like it.

[dalton99a]

14. No, and he's been on it for weeks

[UpInArms]

5. I looked ...

and I couldn’t find any fucks to give after I read …

who says he listens to a lot of conservative talk radio

[nycbos]

6. Bring out your dead.

[struggle4progress]

7. "Why didn't anybody tell me I should get vaccinated?"

[Blue Owl]

9. Softly and tenderly, Herman is calling...

[ShazzieB]

31. CREEEEEEEPPPYYYY!!!!!

[obamanut2012]

42. Herman Cain Award

[FloridaBlues]

10. At this point 1 1/2 years later they don't know vaccines work.

I am past the point of why they refuse. Guess because I’m in healthcare and get tired of excuses.

[C Moon]

15. There are some on DU who don't believe the vaccine works.

Just plain nuts.

[wnylib]

25. Really? I don't remember seeing those posts.

[ShazzieB]

32. I doubt there are many.

I know of one that has posted under multiple names. Other than that...

[wnylib]

33. Sounds like a troll.

[C Moon]

40. There were definitely some lingering about. They seem to have finally dispersed, though.

If you look back a couple months, you'll see others talking about them.

[obamanut2012]

44. At least two long-time anti vaxx DUers still post

A LOT.

Including yesterday.

[Elessar Zappa]

46. And there's one

who always posts vaccine negative news articles but won’t admit he/she’s anti-vax. Yes, it should be against TOS.

[obamanut2012]

43. There are a decent amount, not trolls

Long-time DUers.

I wish EarlG would make being antivaxx against TOS.

[monkeyman1]

23. by the time '22 roll's around , republican's couldn't get a dog catcher elected ! no people to vote!

[NewHendoLib]

11. these people are so fucking stupid. Not an atom of sympathy from me - except for the health

care workers that have to care for them.

[Moebym]

12. Reality hit him

As a ton of bricks on his chest, rendering him unable to breathe on his own.

[keithbvadu2]

17. His room tv is probably still tuned to Fox, Hannity, and Carlson.

His room tv is probably still tuned to Fox, Hannity, and Carlson.

[seta1950]

18. It really galls me

Really when you listen to radio all show host instead of doctors, what do you think will happen🙄

[OneBro]

19. She needs better protective gear.

In a room with an unmasked Covid-positive person who is talking and coughing? Wearing that flimsy mask. Hell to the No!

[elias7]

24. She does not have on an N95, let alone an N100 or eye covering

Nor is she gowned. Perhaps being in some ECMO unit, remote from the main Covid unit, these folks are past the point of contagion…

[orleans]

36. hoping she has been vaxxed

i am amazed (and pissed) when i hear medical personal aren't and don't want to be
(and apparently there is plenty of them)

[LisaL]

41. He is presumably not infectious anymore.

NT

[obamanut2012]

45. It is very doubtful he is still contagious

He's been in the hospital for a long time.

[ffr]

20. Not one of these unvaccinated SOBs has any remorse for the danger they put others through.

F.O. and good-bye you self-absorbed hypocrites!

[Jim G.]

28. Sounds Like A Made Up Story To Me

[ShazzieB]

34. Me, too.

They don't put people on ventilators just for the hell of it. Especially not someone who is healthy enough to run away!

[chwaliszewski]

30. Natural selection working some OT...

[roamer65]

35. Pull the fucking plugs.

There are more worthy people that need those machines.

Real VACCINATED heart patients.

[Grins]

37. 45! A wife! And SIX kids??

He didn’t spend that much time in the road.

You can lay some blame on his soon-to-be-a-widow wife. I wonder if she tried to talk some sense into his Fox-damaged skull?

[roamer65]

38. Get ready, SS survivors benefits soon coming for all 6 of his spawn.

All on the backs of us responsible, VACCINATED taxpayers.

[retread]

49. How is it the children's fault? They should have chosen their parents/ancestors more wisely?

[roamer65]

51. 4 of them shouldn't have been born.

6 children is too many.

Given the planetary situation there should be a limit of 2 worldwide.

[treestar]

52. That was not said

It is because of the father's bad choice.

[DET]

39. Same Old, Same Old

These horrible people all look exactly the same - morbidly obese, lots of facial hair to compensate for their balding, stupid beyond words. I’ve tried but I just can’t muster compassion for them anymore. Nonetheless, I honestly don’t understand how sociopaths like Tucker Carlson and Fox are allowed to promote bogus ‘treatments’ that often lead to the deaths of the idiots who are gullible enough to listen to these grifters. Why can’t these ‘news’ channels be stopped? They are deliberately killing people.

[Vinca]

48. When he gets the hospital bill he's going to wish he were dead. Assuming he survives, of course.

Stupid, stupid. stupid, stupid, stupid. And it didn't have to happen.