Nurses Day 2021 Quotes

Later that year, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk developed cold symptoms and decided to take four tests—same day, same test, same nurse. Two came back positive, and two came back negative. “Something extremely bogus is going on,” he said. Musk was right. It would take the CDC until July 21, 2021 to acknowledge that the PCR test is so faulty as to be clinically useless, revoking its emergency use authorization…but prospectively, and not until December 31.

Loneliness thus leads to meanness. As the saying goes, pain that is not transformed gets transmitted. The data I just cited about social isolation and sadness is, no surprise, accompanied by other sorts of data about rising hostility and callousness. In 2021, hate-crime reports surged to their highest levels in twelve years. In 2000, roughly two-thirds of Americans gave to charity; by 2021, fewer than half did. One restaurant owner recently told me that he has to ban somebody from his place for rude behavior almost every week these days. That didn’t use to happen. A friend of mine who is a nurse says her number one problem is retaining staff. Her nurses want to quit because the patients have become so abusive, even violent. As the columnist Peggy Noonan put it, “People are proud of their bitterness now.