Hi.
I am a domiciliary care worker (home care worker).
Is there anyone else on here in this job at the minute?
We are going into clients houses with no masks, basic gloves and aprons. We have no sanitizer left. We are going into vulnerable adults, we do not know if we have the virus with no symptoms, we do not know if we are carrying the virus but have not had symptoms yet, same for the client.
We are crying out for masks but it is falling on deaf ears. We all have family at home that we risk carrying this too. No body knows what way each individual will react to this virus.
We have been told that masks do not protect us...... how can this be when it can pass through droplets? We cannot social distance from clients.
I just was looking to see if any of you are on the same boat as me. It is such a worrying time. I am so stressed all the time and just want proper equipment to do my job properly and safely.
We keep hearing how we do not need equipment UNTIL someone has symptoms.... why?? It is spreading like wildfire! It is too late to wait until symptoms show. We need the equipment now to protect those most vulnerable and ourselves and our families.
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ginforthewin4 · 26/03/2020 21:13
@MoreHairyThanScary
I completely agree with the element of jealousy r.e. hospital staff.
Whilst they 100% require it, they have the diagnosed numbers of covid 19. We on the other hand, in the community, where there is thought to be tens of thousands of cases, have nothing but our run of the mill aprons and gloves we wear daily anyway.
It is so disheartening. I am am so anxious and worried. Worried for my clients, my family, and myself. I have heard of nurses and doctors dying due to exposure. How much of this am I being exposed to unknowingly because of no appropriate PPE. 
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@countrygirl38 do use have masks?
We are not getting masks. But yet we walk into a local shop and all the workers have them 
The only masks I could get where dust masks from my partners work.
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