My 87-year old father got the Moderna vaccine and wound up in the hospital

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[–]slushpilot 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Thank you for sharing your story. So sad to hear the kinds of nonsense these old folks have to contend with.

I'm curious what kind of anaphylactic allergies your father has—bees, wasps, peanuts, etc? (I'm not a doctor or an expert or anything, just wondering.)

You're absolutely right there has to be a better way. They keep using this word "unprecedented" to describe the pandemic, but what's also unprecedented is our response to it, in countless different ways, and how some know-it-all always seems to know what we should be doing. Unprecedented. We can't expect that one centrally-mandated bureaucratic solution is going to work for everyone, or anyone at all, no matter how well-meaning it is. This kind of totalitarianism also prevents us from figuring out what works and what doesn't. If this is how we operate collectively, I'm afraid that our ability to adapt is being reduced to zero while this virus just carries on.

Good luck.

[–]coffee_addict[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

My dad had an anaphylactic reaction to an antibiotic and to a drug that helps control your bladder. He's kill me if he ever found out that I disclosed his bladder control problems! ;)

I agree with everything you said, and I want to emphasize the points that you made. From what I have seen, the bureaucrats have doubled-down on the systems that were already in place and were already broken. Before COVID, it was easy to turn a blind-eye to the cracks in the system, but now that so many are affected so deeply, the cracks are too numerous and big to hide them anymore. I'll give a specific example to help clarify that very vague statement: nursing homes and assisted living facilities relied heavily on family members to come in and help put. Those facilities are thinly staffed with grossly underpaid workers. Once the family members weren't allowed to help out anymore, the workers could't keep up with the work-load. That is why my dad was so severely neglected in the nursing home -- since he never actually got sick, it was easy to forget about him when there were so many very sick people there that needed urgent care.

[–]slushpilot 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

nursing homes and assisted living facilities relied heavily on family members to come in and help put. Those facilities are thinly staffed with grossly underpaid workers.

Hell yes, this is accurate. We saw this with an elder family member before last year as well. And it was expensive for what they provided. You might as well book grandma & grandpa on a perpetual all-inclusive cruise... at least they'd get service for what they paid for.

[–]coffee_addict[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes! I think my dad's co-pay for that nursing home was $200 per day. He could have been in a hotel with a caregiver checking in on him several times a day for that price. And that was CO-PAY. I want to say medicare paid something like $1200 a day -- and they ignored him. I want to know where the money goes, because it doesn't go to the staff.