I appreciate that. Thanks very much.
I think it's pretty simple from what I've been seeing in my career even prior to COVID and during COVID and afterwards. Society as a whole has lost a piece of kindness. We stopped being kind to each other.
When I walk into someone's home, even just everyday Joe Blow's, there's a level of understanding and a lack of respect for the work we do. Sometimes we're just treated poorly. They're blaming the system on us rather than understanding what we're bringing to the table and being there to help them, being there to care for them, and it can be taken to the extreme.
Gang members and other people never used to really strike out at us, but now, with the amount of verbal abuse, the amount of threats and people banging on our ambulances, there's just a lack of respect and kindness, really, for people helping anyone. It's even in the hospital system, as well, people are screaming at nurses when they walk into the triage area. People are screaming at doctors.
We've allowed it to be okay to harm each other rather than just respecting and being kind to each other. That's all I really wanted to touch on. I don't know how to fix it. Calling a spade a spade, we're just not as nice to each other as we actually could be.