-We need Donald Trump
and everybody else
that's high up there to know
that our life matters!
Give us what we need to continue
to fight
this coronavirus pandemic!
If you do not give it to us,
more and more coworkers
will die!
-PPE!
-Saves lives!
-PPE!
-Saves lives!
-We are trying to highlight
the fact that we do
not have enough PPE.
The governor and they are coming
on television and saying we do,
but we don't.
And it has reached a point now
where we are losing
our coworkers.
We want to go home
to our families.
Yes, we are in a war.
All we need is our ammunition,
which is our PPE
so we can safely come home
as everybody else would like
to go home to their families.
-Hospitals are having to reuse
their mask.
One for five shifts,
multiple patients.
People have been donating
these to me,
knowing what's going on
with nurses in New York City.
This should not be happening.
The hospitals should be
giving us what we need.
The government should be
producing these things
in mass quantities.
These masks were sent to me
from China.
These masks were sent to me
from Atlanta.
These masks were sent to me
from Chicago.
I have more in here that were
sent to me from Arizona.
You can have whatever you want.
One week ago, I was holding
10 patients at the same time,
three on ventilators,
medicating.
I'm an ER nurse,
so we put in lines,
we're there for the procedures,
we draw the blood,
we medicate the patients,
we feed the patients,
we clean the patients.
If you are holding 10 patients,
that's six minutes
per patient per hour.
You can't give them
what they need with that.
You can't protect them
with that.
And we feel terrible.
We feel terrible because
we're used to being
on top of our orders.
We're used to being
able to comfort
and speak to our patients.
We can't do that.
It's a terrible experience.
It's a terrible experience.
We're all suffering,
the patients and the nurses.
-In a country that calls itself
a developed country
and it says that is has
an advanced medical system,
how the hell can we utter
those words out of our mouth
when a physician says,
"To save somebody's life,
I need a BiPAP mask,"
and the response is,
"We'll see if we have it"?
I think that speaks
to the complete failure
of the for-profit
healthcare system
in the United States.
This system has been broken.
This healthcare system
has been broken.
What's happening with
the coronavirus pandemic
is shining light
on the already-broken healthcare
and economics system,
and we're trying
to call attention to that.
