I am an American nurse. I worked the ER through COVID. I am going to tell you what I saw. Not what the news said. Not what the agencies said. What I saw with my own eyes, in the hospitals where I worked. The story you were told and the story we lived were two different stories. The hospitals were empty. Empty triage. Empty units. Whole floors closed. Nurses sent home with reduced hours. The inappropriate TikTok videos of nurses dancing in PPE came out of those weeks because there was nothing else to do. The exception were the urban centers — New York, parts of LA etc— where people live stacked and respiratory illness moves fast. The rest of the country was a ghost town being filmed as a war zone.

@TheRealisticRN I was working at a rural hospital during Covid and we were so busy we had to temporarily convert offices into patient rooms. In retrospect, given the hype and false positives from the PCR tests, many of those patients were likely flu cases who would have normally stayed home.

@Escher911 @TheRealisticRN Except PCR false positives are vanishingly rare and the tests don't mistake any other virus for SARS-COV-2

@TakethatCt @TheRealisticRN That's not what the guy who invented the test said: x.com/thehealthb0t/s…