@MatthiasMuell15 summarises brilliantly exactly how so many of us feel & why it is vital that you allow #BaronessHallett access to ALL the WhatsApp messages she has requested 🙏🏼.
We will never forget the fear that caring for patients with #COVID in DIY PPE engendered & knowing that govt decisions over PPE contracts denied 1000s of us adequate protection is particularly disturbing.
Have you really forgotten the weekly claps of 2020?
Our friends/colleagues & loved ones died in their 1000s from COVID, because of COVID & as a result of a very poor UK government pandemic response & countless extremely bad decisions…
& there is not a shadow of doubt that your misguided #EatOutToHelp scheme in summer 2020 spread #coronavirus very effectively & fuelled the next #COVID wave.
Your generosity w/ public money was life changing for 1000s, sadly for many others it was deadly.
But I suspect one of the things you’re most concerned about being opened up to public & media scrutiny is your meeting w/ #GreatBarringtonDeclaration signatories in Sept 2020.
Tbh I wouldn’t want to be associated w/ a policy of #DeliberateMassInfection w/ a novel virus either.
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There is clearly more…much much more.
But what we ‘the British public’ desperately NEED & definitely DESERVE is honesty, transparency, integrity & bucket loads of accountability.
I can only assume that you are able to block out the avoidable harm & visceral pain felt by millions of ppl in the UK, since Mar 2020, which could have been lessened by us having a decent, honest, compassionate PM who wasn’t only interested in himself & furthering his career?
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You know the type of ppl I am referring to…
Those who died of #COVID, many alone or in hospital, those who couldn’t be w/ their sick or dying loved ones, those who couldn’t attend births/weddings/graduations/funerals/special PARTIES 🍾🥂🎉
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1 - has the child or a family member recently travelled abroad?
2 - has the child or a family member recently tested positive for #COVID?
3 - has anyone in the child’s home been asked to isolate for #COVID19 recently?
& it gets worse…much worse.
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So if a child/parent/caregiver answers NO to all 3 Qs they’re categorised as ‘#COVID✖️’, which is then handwritten on the front of the paper notes & entered into the computer (presumably for data collection).
NB This information INFORMS other HCWs seeing the child re risk etc
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The apathy repeatedly demonstrated by govt, certain health leaders & HCPs as our #NHS collapses around us resulting in the normalisation of ‘avoidable death/harm’, is staggering.
I never thought I’d see the day that #FirstDoNoHarm became utterly meaningless! 1/3
When we look back at this time & reflect on the thousands of lives that didn’t need to be lost & the millions more that suffered bc of unnecessary bereavement/#LongCovid/#NHS neglect/the end of public health messaging ETC…& wonder how this happened in a civilised society…
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….& why we seem to have learnt absolutely nothing from our collective pandemic experience?
Why can’t @DHSCgovuk@NHSEngland see the unacceptable harm done by actively encouraging an individual response to a novel🦠, reinstate a #MasksInHealthcare mandate & upgrade staff😷s?
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1/14 I hesitated at voicing my opinion on this rather contentious issue…
But I feel that without individual testimonies, we will fail to understand why some GPs (myself included) feel mainstream primary care is no longer for them.
2/ Obvs the relentless vilification from the MSM hasn’t helped, esp the claim by some that the number of ‘part-time’ GPs is the problem.
Those on the inside know that a typical day is 11-12hrs long & a ‘half-day’ is regularly 7-8, but hey, let’s not let facts get in the way.
3/ & I don’t suppose those of us who volunteered to work f2f in acute #COVID services within the community in spring 2020 will forget that our pleas for effective #PPE were repeatedly ignored & dismissed by govt, PHE, NHSE, HSE & senior advisors.
The situation in the #NHS is as bad as I’ve ever known it.
Multiple HCWs in our area are off sick with #COVID - nurses, consultants, GPs…all likely to be triple vaxed so they should avoid serious illness but still a risk of #LongCovid.
Operations, procedures, investigations, treatments, therapies….are delayed & cancelled every single day.
Waits for urgent care in A+E/UTCs is ⬆️, pressure on the ambulance service⬆️.
Care ACROSS the #NHS is being negatively affected by staff absences & a lack of beds.
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Care in some areas is no longer safe, in many it can only be described as ‘adequate’.
As @RachaelMaskell points out, hospitalisations are ⬆️….A LOT! Even admissions for other problems will be made more challenging if the patient has #COVID19.
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.