Elizabeth Riney

Fuck Covid19 Elizabeth Riney

FUCK COVID19: A Primary Care Providers Perspective chronicles the first 69 days of the 2020 pandemic starting with day 13. Elizabeth Riney journaled the daily the trials and tribulations of her personal and professional life as a primary care nurse practitioner in a private practice in Evansville, Indiana. She details the struggles she had not only with caring for her patients while doing televisits but also finding proper treatment and care after everyone shut down the outpatient world while still being a wife and a mother to a 5 year old. Her drinking increased, mental health deteriorated and at times she thought she was going to lose it but decided her voice needed to be heard with blunt, brutal, sometimes comical honesty so people could understand not everyone was blindly following the masses and there were providers seeking answers for the good of their patients. There are many answers sought and questions given regarding the global wide pandemic in this book. Is there a hidden agenda, broader issue, underlying reason for the shutdown or was our mental health wrecked for a respiratory virus? Is this really a pandemic or infodemic? All this uncertainty and momming during the 'Rona made even this nurse practitioner say FUCK COVID19!