Ah, that’ll do it. Alaska is rather different from where I’m at.
I wish things were better for y’all and your departments. 
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We not investigating what where origin started because our current president is not interested of finding what really went down (So people think he was paid to look the other way.) Fauci keeps flip flopping on covid and what matter worse, apparently we have gain and function covid testing in Boston labs.
The predictions I made from the very beginning have all come true. In a sea of conflicting data and manipulated, profit-driven narratives, logic, history and skepticism are powerful tools.
My thought process has been that it’s a coronavirus, so it will likely behave as other coronaviruses have throughout history. Unless it actually was made in a lab, which appears to be the case; then it will do unusual things. The spike protein appears to be the unusual bit that makes it particularly dangerous. Despite this, the protein will be selected against, mutate, and become less dangerous over time.
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It’s not bad.
It’s even kind of fun in that particular “everything is awful but you know you’ll get things done when the meat meets the metal” way. Free high for the adrenaline junkies.
The hard part is just bringing myself down to a normal life level. It doesn’t help that my actual day job (brewer in an old, not very automated brewery) is quite physical and mentally demanding. So when call volume drops, I’m having a harder and harder time coming back down to a 4 or 5 out of 10 instead of living around 8.
The past few years have been A LOT.
Not as much as for you, obviously, and I’m very sorry about your rough draw.
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I hear that EMT barely pays more than minimum wage/McDonalds wages, kinda sad state of affairs considering they literally save people’s lives/stabilize them when they’re on the brink of death
I’m not sure exactly how it happened, or how it is in other countries, but EMT/ambulance people getting paid low wages is kinda disturbing
I know a guy in his late 20’s that was EMT for about 2 years, he said he’s going back to school “for something else” since he can’t see himself affording a decent house, decent car, student loan payments, +other bills on his EMT wages alone
He currently sharing a small 1-bed apartment with a roommate, and even still he says he doesn’t save much money at the end of each month
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I mean, yeah, they should be getting paid more. Absolutely. There’s a lot going on on a scene and then there’s the calls that go down into the nightmare box.
And I’m one of the idiots who does it for free because the alternative (no one comes) is unthinkable.
Its more important to pay those uneducated Hamburger flippers more money per hour then a highly trained EMT person…heavy heavy Sarcasm…those same ones that screamed for more money per hour to flip burgers are now telling their bosses to give less hours cause they are making too damn much and losing all their welfare benefits like food stamps and section 8 housing…damn ironic isn’t it…
You’re one of the great ones and you maks the world a better place. As a dispatcher, I know what y’all go through and volunteering is even more selfless and deserves more respect. 
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If there’s one thing I hold as an absolute truth, it’s that no job is as easy as it looks from the outside and every job is more complicated than it looks.
Even the latest varients have a very high survival rate. And there is also the theory that the Covid 19 variant of Coronavirus was genetically engineereed to be worse thatn a natural virus. But then we stray very close to the edge of tinfoil hat land with that discussion.
Yes serious sinus infections will do that.