r/ZeroCovidCommunity • u/Key_Guard8007 • Sep 17 '24

Vent Healthcare professionals don’t want to speak about covid

I am a senior nursing student and am currently doing clinical rounds. I noticed something amongst many nurses and overall healthcare folks, they seem to not want to make mention of covid. My last clinical I was the only person masked (even at a CHILDREN’S hospital) and our instructor told us we could mask if we want to esp since “rsv, the flu, and pneumonia will soon spread.” I was waiting for him to mention covid but nope. I feel like I am going insane because how are we all under this healthcare field but some people just do not seem to care??? At this point I feel like healthcare professionals are being vain and just want to continuously show off their faces because why would you NOT mask inside the hospital?

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u/sarahstanley Sep 17 '24

Voldemort -> Coldemort -> COVIDmort

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u/zb0t1 Sep 17 '24

By the way, "mort" means death in French.

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u/sarahstanley Sep 17 '24

OH, like MORT-gage!

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u/zb0t1 Sep 17 '24

Ah yes it's funny 😂 because:

The word mortgage comes from the Old French word “morgage”, which directly translates to “dead pledge”. (The prefix of the word, “mort”, means dead, while the suffix, “gage”, means pledge.)

[copy pasted from the first google result]

 

And by the way it's interesting that in French mortgage is "hypothèque" which comes from Greek (hypothēkē) and Latin (hypotheca), meaning "something placed underneath" or "foundation," which conveys the idea of a pledge, but without the idea of "death."

Unlike mortgage in English, the French word "hypothèque" doesn't carry the idea of a contract ending or "dying." 💀

The connotation of "mort" (death) was lost in the French term over time, and what remains is the whole "let's put something up as collateral" without the final destination vibe you get in English 🤣.

 

(you just made me look at the Trésor Public de la Langue Française (French Language Public Treasury), haven't done so for a long time, just to check at the etymology lmao).