I work in an NHS Covid ward – and I feel so angry
Unvaxxed patients: some sheepish, some remain defiant as they are wheeled off to ICU and their families deny that Covid itself exists even as their relative is placed on a ventilator. theguardian.com/world/2021/jul…
Unvaxxed patients: some sheepish, some remain defiant as they are wheeled off to ICU and their families deny that Covid itself exists even as their relative is placed on a ventilator. theguardian.com/world/2021/jul…
It’s not just that Covid hospitalisations are increasing. It is coinciding with a resurgence of RSV (which can be serious - even deadly- in children) and flu and parainfluenza that has been suppressed due to NPIs for Covid.
They struggle to find space to keep them separate.
They struggle to find space to keep them separate.
Consultants now off sick with stress and still more being treated for mental illness. The anxiety, and moral injury must be creating anguish.
Meanwhile, however, our junior doctors are so close to the edge that minor events regularly bring them to tears.
Meanwhile, however, our junior doctors are so close to the edge that minor events regularly bring them to tears.
“But if people are allowed to do something, they will. And this is what makes me most angry. When rules are relaxed, people will quite reasonably relax their behaviour. Urging caution thereafter is as nonsensical as asking people to “stay alert”.
“This is a pernicious, contagious, invisible virus that a person can spread for days before they even know they have it. I have met tens, if not hundreds, of careful, cautious, law-abiding people who have been infected despite following the rules.”
“All that the current verbal gymnastics can do is to shift the blame away from those in power – who have access to a wealth of data, the whole picture – on to ordinary people who don’t have the information to make an informed decision.”
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