re: Are healthcare workers "brave"?

I’m an RN. I’m no hero. I don’t make tik tok videos and have never seen one made. The joke is old and weak and needs to go away. As someone else said, administrations misguided attempt at keeping morale up and some people just trying to be involved.
2nd month of all this BS, there were church groups at the entrance to the hospital giving us standing ovations for going to work??? Thanks for the thought, I guess. And we get cards and letters from kids in church groups, schools? Etc, thanking us for Yada, yada,yada. It’s nice but a little embarrassing. I get paid to do this and I used to enjoy my job, a lot. Covid has sucked some of the joy out. If Covid patients get sick and take that fork in the road, it’s real bad. They just hang on and hang on while on the vent. Misery. Knowing that all I’m doing is fighting to keep people alive that have slim to no chance of meaningful recovery is a challenge. But it’s what I do. I accepted that long time ago. Just keep going hoping for small victories and that herd immunity hurries up. And maybe I might get back to the days of bigger victories
This isn’t the most dangerous job I’ve had. I’ve climbed derricks and telephone poles and worked with electricity. It’s all dangerous if you don’t take the precautions. Doctor I worked with died of Covid and all that goes with it. He wore a full face mask all the time.
A lot on here would like to think it’s no big deal and blown out of proportion. Y’all are full of crap. No one knows who will get it and if you do then which ones will get sick and die.
A relative had his pre existing heart condition get worse because of Covid and required surgery.
shite. I’m not sure where I’m going with this. Just frustrated. I want my life back just like everyone else.