Well I listed the similarities if you were paying attention. After that read the article in the guardian I just posted...
They are allowing it to happen...
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Well I listed the similarities if you were paying attention. After that read the article in the guardian I just posted...
They are allowing it to happen...
An article today in the guardian. It beggars belief it really does....
I work on the infectious diseases ward of a major UK hospital. This has now become a coronavirus ward. It’s a “red zone” – one of the most infectious areas. We have all the patients here who have tested positive, apart from the ones so severely ill they need intensive care. We know that some of our patients will die.
I treat patients who are proven to have coronavirus. One week ago, I was wearing full PPE [personal protective equipment]. That consists of a proper FFP3 mask [offering high respiratory protection], a visor, a surgical gown, and two pairs of gloves.
'Not fit for purpose': UK medics condemn Covid-19 protection
Now we’ve been told not to bother with any of that. They’ve told us “just treat it as though it’s seasonal flu”. Now we are expected to wear just a normal surgical mask, a pair of ordinary short gloves, and a plastic apron that doesn’t cover all of you like a surgical gown does. I would see other patients around the hospital in the same scrubs, and the scrubs could have coronavirus on them.
But this advice contradicts WHO and European guidance. This guidance says to use full PPE if you are exposed to patients with coronavirus.
I am terrified. I’m seriously considering whether I can keep working as a doctor. I may be OK – I’m young and healthy – but I can’t bear the thought of infecting other patients with a disease that could kill them. And that is the risk, without proper PPE. It’s terrifying; it’s indescribable. This is not seasonal flu. This is a new virus with greater mortality and we know much less about it.
I cannot believe or understand why Public Health England has downgraded our PPE advice. Why are they contradicting international advice? The evidence that ordinary surgical masks are protective is from dealing with seasonal flu, not this new virus. Doctors are dying in Italy and China. Young people are dying, too.
I cannot understand what the rationale and motives are. Have they given up? Are they just deciding to build up herd immunity by watching us die? The government has given up, hasn’t it?
I’m losing faith in the leadership, medical as well as political. It doesn’t look like there’s a plan. We had weeks to prepare and we are still running out of PPE. And clearly, doctors are expendable. Why sacrifice us when there aren’t enough of us as it is? How many of us will still be able to work when the “right time” finally arrives? They are throwing us into the slaughterhouse. This is what they are doing.
How can I sleep? I feel sick. They are making it impossible for me to do my job. I’m in shock. I feel betrayed. Who is going to look after our patients if we are ill or dead?
I cannot understand why they have stopped testing and contract tracing, either. Hospital staff are being told we cannot be tested if our [own] symptoms are mild. This is unbelievable. If we’re not allowed to be tested, then how will we ever know how many other people – patients – we are infecting? Brilliant. What a brilliant plan.
Rather than asking their Trust to find the answers to their questions, they write a piece for the Guardian instead.
Zezti
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Friend of mine sings for the elderly in care homes for half her income, she's obviously lost that for what could be a year or more at worst. Not sure what Govt expect people like her to do.
Whistle for it?
Why are they queuing for guns in America?
What a weird weird thing to do
What a weird weird thing to do
Bluerover
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The Irish Government will pay all employees and self employed who have lost their work because of this €305 per week.
That is €100 pw more than single rate job seekers allowance.
They have asked employers to pay the first €205 which will be refunded to them by Government.
peteblue
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Cruel Bruce, cruel....
tsubaki
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baffles me, that - you'd think with talk of a lockdown people would be taking crates and cases of wine home with them but instead its bog roll and pasta
Seanjd
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Think it’s more about the government not realising that their ‘delay’ phase tactics probably weren’t going to delay, but accelerate the spread of the virus and put an even more enormous strain on the NHS than there will be. The herd immunity tactic seemed to almost completely disregard any attempt to slow down the spread other than through basic hand washing. It is clear now that more drastic measures are needed to slow everything down, otherwise the country will completely fall apart due to lack of medical facility.
Same sort of thing in the countries in Norway and other countries surrounding them- mind you they do pay in on average 40 percent income tax.......
no, that is the pay if you are off work sick due to having Covid 19
the jobless rate is €205
the jobless rate is €205
Seanjd
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Paying higher taxes and getting something back in times of need - surely that’s not how it works?
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well you should see the walking dead to understand why
Yes that's my point funded socialism......
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