Don't know what others have experience, or considered when people are generally talked on the street over the last twenty months - on sooo many omg covid stories. It's been like a parroting process, the same story from different people, different locations and countries. The one above is similar to what people have heard in America, Canada etc. (with variations of words): "
As they prepared him for intubation, he
burst into tears. The last thing he said was, "F***
the one who persuaded me not to get vaccinated!" There have been other examples.
Not saying this was not what that doctor heard from some particular patient, there likely have been people shocked at what they were facing - as they are being wheeled over to an incubator. However these stories with these words, with Tiktok video; no names, no place, no context, is like a skip in an old vinyl record. This story in print may well become another reality (my brother, friend, cousin (that is said often) had this happen, thus it the same with people parroting things that they have heard down the gossip line, as if it was their own direct memory of observations; did you see, OMG the cases are skyrocketing and I was there. You know, I've a relative, I've a friend of a friend who told me, oh it is so horrible. OMG, the ICU's are spilling over at work, and on and on.
It is like a contagion of absorbed headlines are embodied and repeated to anyone who will listen, and then it becomes their narrative of fear that is spread, as if it is their very own experience (notwithstanding people really do have experiences, yet can one tell?)
Their narratives come up if you ask questions: oh, you don't know, my friend's brother was hooked up to a ventilator and was really sick from covid. He was lucky to survive, they say. I see, so who is your friend, perhaps I know him? Silence or, you happen to know that friend's brother and that is not at all what happened.
I saw a nurse commenting on these sorts of reports on social media. Her comment was that anybody who was sick enough to be in an ICU was not physically capable of giving an anti anti-vax speech.
Exactly, and yet one nurse who works at the hospital will say they are board, knitting sweaters and on FB all the time - at the ready though. The next at the same hospital will say, OMG, how are we to survive. The paramedic who delivers really sick people to that same hospital are asked upon entering, does h/s patient really need to be here? The paramedic looks around at the empty halls and says, well yes they need to be here, it is serious, are you busy?
Many here have worked frontlines or semi-frontlines throughout this scare affair (with outright mishandling, very possibly documented criminal mishandling resulting in death), will have their own crazy stories on reactions of people. One rather suspects that their stories will repeat the self-puppetry they see in how people react, where people borrow whole narratives out of thin air that were never their own to begin with (planted in their minds). It is really numbing to see in action, especially when you might offer an offhand comment (done at your own risk, mind you), only to face a predictable reaction.