Protect the NHS?

[LockdownSucksBalls]

Long time poster and I have name changed because I have know idea how this will go and don't wish to associate it with some of my other posts. This is also long 😂

I think everyone would agree that this pandemic has caused more division than anything I have ever seen in my lifetime. I have been reading posts and it seems that people either want the army patrolling the streets or they are concerned about their civil liberties being smashed to bits but fundamentally I don't think a single poster across this whole platform wants to see our health service collapse and more than that, we all feel for the actual people working in these frontline services (police, paramedics etc)

I also think most think the government are a complete shambles. I'm in Scotland so have Nicola Sturgeon who talks a good game but actually not very much different to Boris. I would say all 4 nations have succeeded in ONE thing and one thing only, dividing the people so much that everyone is worrying about other things.

So parents are worrying about school being open, teachers worrying they are safe, businesses worrying they have to close, redundancy, healthcare and supermarket workers on their knees. These are all really big worries for actual people.

Our NHS shouldn't be in this position. This is their fault. It needs a complete overhaul and the only way that can happen is people protest for it to be funded properly. Now I am not advocating a protest in the current climate but surely if every member of Mumsnet started contacting their MPs questioning this it would draw attention to it and not able to be ignored by the media?

What we are asking People to do at the moment is criminal, an open letter to the government today 1000 medics don't have the correct PPE again? Yet we expect people to go and work in these conditions? We expect parents to have limited access to education again? We expect business to close? We gave a fine of your out without a reasonable excuse?

Yet our MPs go to work everyday, driven around appearing on TV, daily briefings, passing draconian laws when actually all their focus should be on our NHS and how they fix the monumental fuck ups they made and how we bloody help these nurses and doctors cope. Asking us to stay in isn't relieving the pressure, the staff are on their knees whilst we are at home depressed trying to keep positive. The focus should firmly be on the government. Get your arse down to a hospital and throw money and resources NOW.

Whatever side you sit and I will be open and say I am deeply concerned about civil liberties but follow the rules surely Nurses should be the highest paid along with doctors as standard? This government should have every news outlet putting pressure on them to fix this instead of reporting on people being fined for not wearing a mask.

I said to my dh this evening that I was surprised NHS staff were not walking out of their jobs right now. I know they largely won't because they care for their patients, but I think they have been treated dreadfully and I suspect the press are some how being told to suppress how bad things are for fear of creating panic. Never have I been so glad I left the NHS a couple of years ago. At my old workplace, covid spread like wildfire, a consultant ended up on ITU ventilated, numerous staff have long covid .

@Babyroobs and @Chocolatte21 this is it. The staff will not walk out because they actually give a shit. The government know this. This is really why I feel everyone else has to help give them a voice.

I have lost nearly everything with this pandemic and I confess to feeling like fuck the NHS then I remember actually that's my mum, my friend my DPs friend (who we are actually having to suicide checks on he's so burnt out) fundamentally we all care about the actual people in the NHS it's time we all got together and made the government see that.

This is literally just me pouring out my thoughts but I will say it again it heartens me to see a thread with people on all sides largely agreeing. I don't want to lose hope and I want my kids to have a future where the right people are respected and paid accordingly

@missyB1

Mumski 45 is right. Voting differently is how we ultimately fix this. The Conservative Government have always made it clear that they will spend the minimum on public services, they see those services as a nuisance and a drain on society! But I’ve long since given up on the public waking up to this, people are so very very easily fooled. Boris and his bus anyone?? It’s not just in the UK either, look at the Trump supporters. We could all out lots of pressure on our MPs but Tory MPs toe the party line. I have emailed my MP many times when there has been important votes in the commons- total waste of time!

This. And it sticks in my throat more than just a little bit that I have never voted for this but now have to “protect an NHS” I didn’t fuck up in the first place.

@MadameBlobby I totally feel your pain in that respect. It makes me fucking angry but then I try and remember that they don't give a fuck about the NHS it's all about the optics and it not appearing on sky news.

The whole thing for me though is love or loathe it that is actual people working there. Probably didn't vote Tory themselves and the best they get is a clap? Our whole lives are being curtailed because they can't admit they fucked it. Everyone is screwed one way or another except them!

@LockdownSucksBalls: Hence my sentence "But I also know it's not that simple".

I appreciate that we are not all born equal and mostly, those inequalities persist through life.

I suppose my point was, that "health" encompasses much, much more than hospitals.

@Wingedharpy no I know you did absolutely did state that and I was maybe a wee bit sensitive so I apologise.

As someone who grew up in an utter shithole and made it out I do get defensive. I was so lucky to have a dance teacher that changed my life so I hate that rich/poor divide. You are right though we could all look after ourselves better there really isn't an excuse in this day in age with all the information we have that we don't look after our health

No apology required OP - no offense taken.