The government’s plan for ‘Living SAFELY with Covid’ is a terrifying joke. The key to their ‘strategy’ is to conceal the truth & allow spread to continue unchecked.
Even the @UKHSA is urging caution - surely that should raise alarm bells 🚨!
After all, they gave us the limited & inaccurate list of #COVID symptoms, mixed messaging on testing & ‘you can only catch #COVID from ppl you don’t know’ BS.
If they are worried, we should all be. 3/
& if you get #LongCovid - you’re essentially on your own.
Like a patient I saw last week, if you have no proof you had #COVID19 in the 1st place, it’s going to be even harder to prove your ongoing debilitating symptoms are #LongCovid or get the healthcare & support you need.
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#COVID19 will continue to circulate & we won’t have a clue where it is.
If there’s a hotspot/new variant we won’t realise till it’s too late & millions of ppl will be forced to ‘live w/ #LongCovid’ in silence.
Those at ⬆️risk will remain so - elderly, vulnerable, poor, BAME… 5/
2- If 🇬🇧school kids had been offered vaccination like their international peers, the health, wellbeing & education of 1000s would’ve been better protected & countless lives could’ve been saved!
British exceptionalism has caused so much avoidable harm & suffering!
3- At what point will @10DowningStreet@educationgovuk & members of the #JCVI reflect on whether they’ve abused their power & failed an entire generation?
2/You know the pain of losing a loved one to #COVID19, but are willing to subject millions of others to that pain to save @BorisJohnson, a man devoid of a moral compass or a shred of integrity & humanity!
#PrimeMinister do you really understand the seriousness & gravity of what you’ve done?
You have today signed the unnecessary death warrants of 1000s of innocent ppl & consigned many 1000s of others to long term debilitating illness.🧵 @BorisJohnson@10DowningStreet@sajidjavid
2-Despite the determination to use a #RideTheWave analogy…
THIS IS NOT A GAME!
The lives (& avoidable deaths) of ordinary people may not bother you #PrimeMinister but they do bother my #NHS colleagues & I, & it pains us not to be able to care for people appropriately & safely.
3-The #NHS is NOT “in danger of being overwhelmed”
IT IS OVERWHELMED RIGHT NOW!
How anyone w/ even an iota of understanding of healthcare can’t see, that for ppl having an MI or other v serious event the need to make their own way to 🏥 is both UNSAFE & UNACCEPTABLE! #nhscrisis
Is it the number of patients in intensive care units?
We all welcome the news that #Omicron appears to be causing less severe disease but hospital admissions for #COVID19 are clearly rising & this will still affect the ability to provide safe non-COVID care. @AmandaPritchard 2/
This v informative update from @ChrisCEOHopson today paints a stark picture of how finely things are balanced especially when staffing levels are factored in to the equation.