I am a HCP professional myself but haven’t worked front line for a long time. It looks horrendous and I want to say thank you for working in these awful conditions. I watched the video of Dr Hugh Montgomery begging people to follow the rules which I completely agree with.
What I am wondering is how do you feel as HCP if you are caring for people who you know have not followed the guidelines and since caught covid and become very unwell? I know generally we do not judge and treat every patient our best (eg smokers with lung cancer, obese people with related problems). But I found it interesting that it’s painted that people very ill or dying of covid are ‘victims’ with the rest of society causing their covid due to their lack of rule following. Presumably though a certain amount of people may have got covid due to not following guidance themselves. I know of course a lot of people get it through work/shopping even when following all the ‘rules’ so I do understand it’s not everyone. I don’t know many people who have died of covid however the two I know have been grandparents of families who met up regularly even during lockdown, had small parties etc. I’m not saying at all that they deserved to die at all of course but what I mean is when they became ill and died their families were shocked, devastated etc. But surely they knew their behaviour was putting their own relatives at risk?
I follow the rules myself but also haven’t ‘dobbed in’ neighbours for minor infractions. I just find this attitude of all the selfish people causing people to die of covid through no fault of their own quite strange.