Absolutely, it's not a topic being spoken about enough, we talk about capacity of the facilities but not the constant stress the workers are under and the trauma they have been through
This is true. And I'm not looking to underplay stuff here.
But if you sign up to be a doctor, a nurse, a healthcare worker... ultimately things like this, sickness and death, come with the territory. You have to have very thick skin, think and be able to act in a certain way, stay calm under the stress. It's not to say that they don't need that help after, but ultimately it is what they do, it is their job. They aren't 'normal' in that sense. They work in a very high pressure job and, well, if you're a doctor or a nurse, you knew if a pandemic ever happened that you'd be the people needed the most, don't you?
Like, my old housemate was a physio who had her first job in a hospital last year. She had to do six months on respiratory, from Sept 2020 to March 2021, in Sheffield's largest hospital. I expected her to be hit by it more I guess, but whenever we spoke about her work it was more like 'well, I knew that this would happen, you just have to prepare for it'.
Of course, the help has to be there for them if required, but I imagine a lot of people who work in these places have this type of attitude. I was dating a doctor earlier this year and she was the same, just kind of shrugged it off as her job. They were able to separate the human nature from the reality of it I suppose. And I guess that's what you have to do.
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