Yup. All of my reports are closed out within minutes with 0 actual resolution.

I worked for a public hospital in winter-spring 2021 directly with COVID patients, and we weren’t given N-95s at all, and they attempted to take away our gowns because they were low on inventory.

Meanwhile, N-95s were available for purchase online at this point (expensive but not hard to get - I had to resort to paying out of pocket for my own), and surgical masks and gowns were plentiful online. Really sick, the way these hospitals treated their employees.

Vile, not even remotely surprised!

I worked at a similar store around ten years ago. We would find dirty diapers stuffed into displays, chewing gum stuck to items, this list goes on. People are gross.

This. As someone who works in the healthcare sector in NYC (frequently with unhoused and mentally ill people), there actually are a fair amount of resources for low to no income people with mental illnesses. The issue is that many of them are too consumed by their illness to want to take advantage of said resources, and there’s no way to force them to.

It says her husband preceded her in death, so I hope that wasn’t the case (looks like he passed in 82 and her in 2014)). It actually looks like she passed away in Ohio, so I’m curious why this person didn’t return to Ohio with her mother or other family members. An interesting and sad story nonetheless. I live in midtown, surprised I haven’t run into this woman.

Her Instagram has her mother’s name on it. Googled it and the obituary says that she “passed away peacefully, after a long illness”.

You are very right about her needing help and it doesn’t sit well with me either that she’s nearly guaranteed to never receive that help.