Yeah, Amy Mattson struggles to breathe. What does it feel like to have covid exhausting uh extremely frustrating firing and the fact that I am here now, I am furious with myself. Why? Because I was not vaccinated, not anti vaccine. She says she just didn't get around to it. The 44 year old is now one of dozens of COVID-19 patients in Baton Rouge's our lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center. Her oxygen low. Her doctor says she might need a ventilator. I just don't want anyone else winding up like me. Especially when the vaccine is so easy to get Now. The delta variant now prevalent in the bayou state. Not only is it enormously infectious, the delta variant is far more contagious, right? But that viral load doesn't just mean that I'm going to spread it to more people. It also means that when I inhale somebody else's breath, I am getting a massive amount of virus. It is spreading everywhere in cities and rural areas. There's nowhere safe if you're interacting in this community, you should be vaccinated and you should have a mask on because we are inundated with Covid Ronnie Smith. says he thinks he got it from a friend outdoors outdoors at a barbecue. He was planning to get the vaccine when COVID-19 got him about two days after the event. It's just like at uh, I went down on the floor and I, I couldn't get up. Nurses here say they've watched the number of critically ill patients grow rapidly. Some anti vaccination patients still in denial. Covid 19 Israel. Some people insist that we're lying to them about the Covid positive diagnosis. Even sick people, even sick people who need oxygen who might be on their way to death are still denying they have coaches. I have patients that deny that they have Covid all the way up until intubation. Um, what did they think they have? They think that they have called Carson Baker, only 21 has a kidney condition. Her doctor has advised against getting vaccinated for now. She thinks she picked up the coronavirus while in a screened in porch across the room from someone else who had it. What does that tell you about how easy it is to pick this variance up? And it just kind of sucks because people like myself with an auto immune disease, you can't really go anywhere now because just everybody's getting sick and it just doesn't matter what you do. Lori Douglas has been in nursing for 35 years the last year, her hardest frustration with sickness, death and the unvaccinated at boiling point. Sometimes praying isn't enough and yell at jesus if I need to. Um, it's head shaking, teeth, grinding, knees tight, standing up, just wanting to scream from the hilltops, frustrating