Holy
shit! You know those television shows about people who do really dangerous
jobs? Like the one where guys drive trucks in Alaska through mountains in a
blizzard?
Well
guess what’s rapidly becoming the most dangerous profession? Working as an aide in a goddam nursing home!
I know it sounds like I’m trying to be funny here but I’m not. Well actually, I
am trying to be funny, but I’m not lying.
I
read it in the Washington Post. It said because the virus is rampaging through
nursing homes, so many people who work in them as certified nursing assistants are
dying that if the pace keeps up it will be even more deadly than jobs like
logging and commercials fishing. And being a CNA in a nursing home pays for shit,
too. That Post story said that the average pay is $590 a week.
But
I’m not surprised by any of this. People who work in nursing homes aren’t the
only ones who are sitting ducks for the virus. The last I heard, 33 percent of
those who have been killed by the virus have been people who are stuck living
in nursing homes.
Nursing
homes show how much cripples are the disposable rejects of society, especially
broke ass cripples. Nursing homes are where we are dumped for committing the
offense of needing someone to wipe our asses for us. How rude can we be to expect such pampering? And if you need Medicaid to pay someone to
wipe your ass because you don’t have money to pay someone out of your own
pocket to do it, you’ll probably have no choice but to surrender yourself over
to a nursing home. And usually there’s a greedy pig who owns a chain of nursing
homes making a million bucks off of our captivity.
So
it logically follows that those who wipe our asses would be considered disposable
rejects, too. They’re sullied by association. It’s the dirtiest of the dirty
work. They’re touching the untouchables.
Maybe
soon they’ll make a television show where they follow nursing home CNAs through
their perilous and harrowing workdays. And there they are risking their lives
by wiping the asses of cripples. It’s high drama!
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