andagainandagain- t1_j0vtmu3 wrote on December 19, 2022 at 8:13 PM

Reply to comment by redditaccount71987 in Thousands of NYC nurses begin vote to authorize strike: 'We were the heroes' by thonioand

I worked for a public hospital in winter-spring 2021 directly with COVID patients, and we weren’t given N-95s at all, and they attempted to take away our gowns because they were low on inventory.

Meanwhile, N-95s were available for purchase online at this point (expensive but not hard to get - I had to resort to paying out of pocket for my own), and surgical masks and gowns were plentiful online. Really sick, the way these hospitals treated their employees.

Angrychihuahuaroar t1_j0wira3 wrote on December 19, 2022 at 11:03 PM

I had an N-95 because a friend who is an NP fucking stole me one from her job at a clinic. She also stole a gown for me. She shouldn’t have had to do that but I really thank her for it.