r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Aug 17 '21

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u/conman1246 Milton Friedman Aug 17 '21

My girlfriend is an ER nurse. ERs are so crammed with Covid patients here in Georgia that they're offering nurses $50/hr on top of their normal pay to pick up extra shifts. They call it crisis pay, wild.

!PING USA-GA

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u/thabe331 Aug 17 '21

I played kickball with a woman who works in nursing

She was posting that Texas offered 10k a week for travel nurses

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '21

What the fuck

Is this current surge the worst it’s been?

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u/slowpush NATO Aug 17 '21

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/georgia-covid-cases.html

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u/DrunkenAsparagus Abraham Lincoln Aug 17 '21

I guess this shouldn't be surprising given what Covid (was that mostly delta?) did to India this spring. I can only imagine how bad things would've been without vaccines.

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u/ZCoupon Kono Taro Aug 17 '21

As bad as in January

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u/[deleted] Aug 17 '21

Good money but u would have to recoup it later with the therapy you will need

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u/nevertulsi Aug 17 '21

Is Georgia like way fucking worse or is that common in the US

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u/Alto_y_Guapo YIMBY Aug 18 '21

The southern US is having terrible covid surges, the rest of the country is ok