“I’m a frontline nurse. Coping with this fourth Delta wave has made me feel the most helpless, sad and angry since the beginning of the pandemic. The burnout and PTSD used to feel like a temporary chapter. I see no end now. Seeing the resistance to vaccines and science, as well as our failure at global vaccine equity, thereby permitting variants to flourish, is devastating. Instead of making it to the light at the end of the tunnel, it seems that we are going to have to learn to see in the dark. And we will. Your health care workers will pull from deep wells of resilience and give everything, right up to the day we melt into tears, throw our badges down and leave with our middle fingers in the air. If you get sick, I hope there are health care workers left to take care of you. We stopped feeling like heroes long ago.”
