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A life that takes care of your life. He desperate request filmed of a surgical intensive care nurse from Los Angeles, California (United States) taking people “Stop being so careless” against the pandemic of COVID-19, was most viewed on social networks, especially in TikTok, where it already has more than 1,900,000 views and thousands of comments.
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In the images, published on December 21 last year, the voice of Gayana Chuklansev – who appears in a blue uniform with a tinkling Christmas decoration behind her – starts to break when she makes a request while staring at the camera: ‘I don’t know how else to say this, but I beg you. Please stop being careless “. The health professional then describes how overwhelmed the staff are at the hospital where they work.
“We don’t have respirators for the patients, we don’t have sedatives. Patients die like flies. We are full, at maximum capacity. We have no resources, we have no staff. Our doctors cannot intubate because they each have to treat 40 patients “Chuklansev adds on the situation in the state of California.
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“It’s like a war zone and we’re asking for help, but no help is coming”, the nurse adds, citing the day-to-day control that their colleagues are subjected to by people telling them “That was exactly what they signed up for”. “We don’t enroll to watch patients die because we can’t help them physically”, the affected woman specified.
So please stop being careless. Please stay home during the holidays as this will get worse. “, concluded Chuklansev, whose appeal generated all kinds of comments, mainly of solidarity of people with relatives who, like her, are part of the first line of the fight against the COVID-19 as staff in hospitals and health centers.
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According to the official California government coronavirus page, till the December 30, 2020, said state had no ICU availability, except in the northern sub-region of the territory. There are 2′245,379 confirmed cases of this COVID-19 and 25,386 deaths, according to updated figures as of December 31, although the numbers may not represent the daily change as the reports are not without lags.