Thread by @SholaHoon

Imagine.

Over the next few weeks, you’re cooking in the kitchen and the knife slips from your hand, and you get a cut requiring stitches.

Or, you slip and fall in your home and you’re pretty sure you fractured something because the pain is unbearable.

Or, someone you love clutches their chest and thinks they’re having a heart attack.

Or, your young child shoves a small toy 🧸 up their nostril.

Or, you end up in a car accident with whiplash and possibly a concussion.

Or, your child has an inexplicably high fever.

And you go to the emergency room, by yourself, with your child or your loved one.

And there is a long line. They tell you to go find another hospital.

They tell you that they’re attending to more serious cases.

They can’t or won’t attend to you.

Doctors and nurses are stretched thin.

They are tired after 22 months of COVID-19.

Our healthcare system is underprepared for this #OmicronVariant wave.

Spare a thought for our healthcare professionals.

Spare a thought for those who need the hospital.

Spare yourself and your loved ones from a predicament in which you find yourself unable to get the healthcare you desperately need.

We never know what is going to happen in the next second.

Spare yourself from severe COVID-19 disease 🦠 by getting vaccinated and boosted.

Time is still on our side, but barely.

Please #GetVaccinatedNow.

The benefits outweigh the risks. Keep hospitals available for real unpredictable and unpreventable emergencies.

Let’s save our already overwhelmed doctors and nurses unnecessary stress.

Do the right thing for each other, for our communities, our hospitals and our healthcare system.

Freedom isn’t about “Me the Person” it’s about “We the People.”

The UK, which has been ahead of the US by a few weeks with each COVID-19 wave, is sounding the alarm bell.

🚨 🚨🚨

Hospitals are under tremendous stress with Omicron. Healthcare professionals are getting ill.

amp.newsobserver.com/news/article25…

Report after report saying that we need to be prepared with and overwhelmed healthcare system.

Here’s one from @MorningEdition @AMartinezLA and @AubreyNPR

npr.org/2021/12/20/106…

You may be convinced that these are false alarms because field hospitals and the USS Comfort went unused in 2020.

Keep in mind that we were under lockdowns then, and spread was better contained with a less transmissible variant.

This year we’re on the verge of gathering for🎄

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not and!