Luna a very close friend lives in NZ asked me had I seen it and was it really like this, she was shocked, she was surprised it aired there first, I said two words - Covid inquiry!
I am senior frontline clinical/management who worked non stop throughout, often clinically but also having to work with the information coming from PHE and DoH, the scenes with the execs in breathtaking resonated, the absolute sticking to the rules/policy, not listening to the frontline staff who were actually living this thing day in day out and KNEW the risks, knew what the teams and patients needed, were articulating this eloquently and passionately yet were not listened to because the execs were scared/weak/ill informed and not brave enough to listen to their clinical teams.
The lack of support from PHE, DoH, government around the public refusing to wear masks or PPE and the direction at exec level that because of this we had to let them in and our teams had to treat them….. well, that in and of itself, was breathtaking.
Many of my friends and colleagues have watched this, we are all triggered by it, and have all cried. There is a huge sense of disbelief that this actually happened to us all. Johnson and Hancock were despicable. Obviously the after effects are still ongoing and are far reaching, so so so many people who didn’t access services then and still now who then present late with cancers or other conditions then die. Who knows how many people died as a result of not accessing services in 2020/21 is this even being recorded?
I am so angry again.