Carers and vunerable patients

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I know a few home carers that live across the road, they are doing home visits too vunerable patients, patients that are at huge risk if they contract covid. The carers don't seem to give s shit about their clients they have lots of people coming in an out their house, people staying over all the time, going out to pubs clubs ect.

I know everyone can't put their life on hold because of covid but the other day one of their patients was taken away in an ambulance and it got me thinking about covid and how these carers are putting their patients at risk.

I am not planning on doing anything or saying anything but it just made me wonder if I am being very unking to think they are major twats for putting those people at risk?

I thought this post must have been from 6 months ago when we were not ‘allowed’ to do these things.

As they aren’t breaking any Covid rules what’s the issue?

YABVVVU!! Wow, just wow.

I watched ‘Help’ on C4 the other day. Follows the story of a young care worker during the pandemic. Now I have no idea how realistic it was, if I had to hazard a guess I would say that the reality was actually much, much worse than it portrays.

I was still crying after it had finished. Heartbreaking. Absolutely horrible the position these amazing carers have been put in the last couple of years. And for what? Shit money, and people questioning every decision they make, and now presumably you’re suggesting they put their whole lives on hold indefinitely?

"Actually I do not believe that carers should have been forced to have the vaccine, and 2 I wondered how I would feel if it were one of my relatives that were at high risk of dying if they got covid. That is all. Sorry if some of you find that offensive."

Some of us?? I think you'll find it's everyone who finds that offensive!!!

Having said all that, I don't think you are being awful to be concerned and I think some people on here are being unnecessarily nasty.

I think it's the "Don't give a shit about their patients" and "being major twats putting people at risk" when the majority of carers went above and beyond before the pandemic anyway, never mind through it and now. The expectation that we should be putting our lives on the back burner still to protect others, that our duty of care extends into every single facet of our lives, trying to hold a tidal wave back with our hands and still getting slated for it.
We've had a battering since that first lockdown and through it from the government, press and society as a whole, and we're just not listened to when we try and speak up on behalf of these people we care for when we feel they're at risk, like when the SI rules changed - no one spoke up about that, except to say that carers should be not going to work anyway and were selfish if they did, despite the fact they weren't the ones who changed the rules and stood to lose out yet again, put in the situation of knowingly putting people at increased risk, or losing income and putting their jobs and families financial stability at risk.
Like when some spoke out about the vaccine being mandatory and the effect that was going to have on people when we're already facing a massive shortfall in the industry. We were called selfish for that too.
The attitude towards carers as a whole being unable to do any better, being a drain on society because of their low wages, and yet expected to put themselves and their own families last - even in non work hours - constantly to protect other people's families.
Having to turn up for covid tests weekly and the jabs, and now the boosters but no one wants to pay us for that time, we have to foot the bill for that travel and time.
Offered nothing in the way of support for the things we've done and seen during this pandemic, been abused by family members because of the rules not allowing them in, being ill and or having vaccine side effects and just being expected to get on with it because 'duty of care'.
We've picked to the slack in an entirely broken system and there's still people out there who are ready and willing to slate us at any opportunity.

The goodwill has run out and it's showing now, compassion fatigue has well and truly set in, resources have been cut and cut and demands increased and increased and no one wants to look at the bigger picture.
We're a convenient scapegoat and I for one am fed up to the back teeth of it, I've had enough and I will not continue to be a bloody door mat.

My dad has home carers. We ask that they lft regularly, and dont come to work if they feel ill. Beyond that their life is their own.

Carer here, YABVVU.
Stay in your ivory tower as long as you want. Ease up on the curtain twitching though, you'll strain your neck.
I will carry on going out, seeing my friends and having two teenagers around, in between working my arse off for my clients.