I've mentioned the wife is a care manager before. She's currently dealing with a Covid outbreak at one of the homes she manages. The virus has spread despite workers wearing full PPE. Thankfully only the workers have been affected, none of the residents have shown signs. Until now.
Similar stories are going round the care community that this new variant of the virus gets round all the usual protection (masks, face shields, aprons and gloves).
Certainly it seems a magnitude more transmissable. The jury is out on whether it is getting through masks, or it's transmitted by a small slip-up in PPE protocol. At the wife's home, because the staff and none of the residents are affected, then it does lend credence to the slip up in PPE protocol theory, or that the virus spreads past masks when being in close proximity for long periods.
Obviously the wife is stuggling to cover staffing with the majority of staff off. The two ladies left working in the home have stepped up and worked long hours to cover. That's how care workers do things because they care.
However, it's the treatment of people in care by the NHS that I want to concentrate on here.
With an outbreak amongst the staff, everyone at the home is wary of the residents coming down with covid. Being learning disability there isn't the option to test them like a normal person would be, so it's a case of monitoring symptoms and reporting back.
Yesterday one of her residents had a temperature and started with a cough. All the protocols were followed, the resident was already isolated because of the staff outbreak. So the residents GP was called.
The immediate reaction of the GP was to get the home to call 999 and get the resident taken to hospital. No test, no confirmation of covid, just scoop them up and dump them in the plague ward. If they didn't have covid, you can bet within hours they would.
So, they dutifully called 999 and the first response of the ambulance service was for the home to confirm the resident had a DNAR form. A Do Not Attempt Resuscitation Form. That tells you what the priorities of the NHS are.
So, attempting to get the resident some care, rather than an NHS death sentence, the home rang 111 to get a more balanced opinion. The response was why did the home go against the GP's instructions?
So, it seems there is an agenda in the NHS to just assume covid, scoop the patient up and dump them on a covid ward. Where if they didn't have covid before, they will certainly contract it.
It's fucking shit. This pandemic has shown the worst of the NHS. Rather than save lives, they would rather condemn people to death.
Don't get me started on the lack of care for cancer patients. Patients with advanced tumours that are not getting the treatment that could possibly save their lives.
The NHS has become a death cult.
To me it looks like the switch has flipped. This is now the establishment killing people off. With the new Police fines, it's the establishment against the people.
There will be a reckoning.
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