Another ICU consultant in London here. It’s truly upsetting some if the vile comments on here directed against one of my colleagues, who I know personally not to be a ‘knob’ but an extremely caring, hard working individual who may have said some very hard hitting, emotional words, but they came from a place of heartfelt desperation at trying to impart to all those people knowingly and repeatedly breaking the rules to stop. He didn’t target anyone who can’t wear a mask at work (for example teachers) or for another reason... nor did he blame his patients for catching COVID... only those who knowingly and repeatedly break the rules and have a blatent disregard of the consequences.
And to clarify, we are seeing families ‘wiped out. Here is my list of patients in the past two months... and that’s my personal list... my colleagues will have had more:
- a wife, her 2 sons dead and another still in ICU. All had attended the same funeral
- a husband and wife dead.
- another husband and wife dead
- a son and mother dead
- an ICU nurse desperately ill with COVID on ICU and her husband has died also from it. She doesn’t know yet.
And age-wise, he is spot on. We are seeing so many in the age group 40-60 now. And younger. From memory of the past week, I’ve given critical care therapy to a 27, 34, 37, 38, 44 and 49 year old.
I honestly don’t know what ‘agenda’ people think we have.