Does anyone find sobbing nurses etc in The News every night, in any way helpful?

[Miljea]

.... or does this footage rapidly lose its impact?

I sort of feel 'Yes, we know, and if the first months of footage failed to shock and awe, this won't!'. If anything, all it does is to numb people.

Ditto the non-contextualised rolling statistics.

Do you think it's an actual strategy, to bombard us with this? If it is, I fear it's not working.

FTR I'm coalface, Covid facing, full PPE NHS, tho not ICU.

But I have got up and personal with Covid that is killing people. Including in ICU.

But I don't think the News' blanket slightly blurry footage of HCPs all kitted up going about their business, interspersed with interviews with sobbing nurses- really helps. I have even heard the 'for God's sake, it's their job' remarks (at the hairdressers, when they were briefly open, TV on).

That person was argued with by her mate, but I do wonder whether too much of this sort of coverage makes people weary of it.

Have never seen anyone behave like this, have the time to be interviewed, or refer to themselves as ‘frontline’ (or ‘coalface’......) in years as an ICU dr.

I don’t watch the news because of this. Also nhs ‘front line’.

I don’t want to come home from work (or watch on the ward!). I need hope.

I don't believe the op is working in the NHS if she asserts that all nurses treating Covid patients are issued with FFP3 masks. They simply aren't; most have paper masks and aprons still. It's only recently that dd's trust have allowed them to wear scrubs rather than uniform.

If your union is really as on the ball about this, why haven't they forced the NHS guidelines to be changed?

It's the utter ignorance shown on threads like this that pisses me off.
All the bollocks "I'm a front line worker, I do my job properly, I wouldn't crack up, I wouldn't cry, etc etc" ad fucking nauseum.

Honestly this is such a weird question to pose, I think you just want to paint yourself as some sort of unflappable stoic in contrast to the 'sobbing' HCPs on the news.

I'm not sure what to think to be honest. Reports like that scare the life out of me which I guess it what it's meant to do. I'm germophobic, always have been. Through life I've always kept it in check so as not to impact my life but now all that's gone.

I follow every rule and always have done. We hardly go out at all and when we do we are all showering and washing our clothes. I wipe the shopping down after it's been delivered. I've been in about 10 shops all year.

My kids aren't in school even though I'm a key worker and DS1 has SEN. I'm furloughed but if they hadn't I would have resigned. DH works from home too.

Reports like this don't help me at all as I can't physically do anymore but it will seriously impact me and my family when restrictions lift as I won't be protected as I'm not in an risk category but I'll be expected to take the risk even though they've been showing me footage of people younger than me dying.

I guess I'm saying it probably works with some, is unhelpful for others and the ones it's probably targeting the most, won't watch or care less.

The nurse seen tearful and crying earlier,on the news, was being spoken to by the BBC news guy, so being asked how she felt about everything, it would obviously make her very upset, as she was relating just how many deaths she has to deal with all day and everyday.

Maybe we have compassion fatigue.

Where I am, we’re COVID-free, so the idea of HCP sobbing with exhaustion and fear seems appalling to me.

Yes, HCP got into the job to care for people.

They didn’t get into it to be on the frontline of a profoundly mishandled pandemic.

The thought of this continuing for weeks, or even months must be taking a huge mental and physical toll.

And they got into the job for to care for people.

Not watch vast swathes of them die.

Nobody gives a shit when the nurses and doctors are looking ground-down and exhausted during an ‘average’ Winter flu season and the NHS is creaking and straining and on the point of tipping over. No one cares that decisions of ‘who gets the bed’ or ‘who gets the treatment‘ are happening ALL THE TIME. I love Clive Myrie but the reports from the past 2 nights have been pure propaganda. Anyone who doesn’t compute the blunt figures of 92000 people dead, and realise that that might possibly lead to the ‘emotive’ scenes in hospitals is going to be dense beyond redemption. And yes, the holding of the shot until you get the tears, is cynical exploitation of these professionals.

I feel unbelievably sorry for all the staff on the frontline - yes. But I hate all these poetic drone-shots and name-checks by Huw Edwards to the cameramen and Producers of the pieces - smacks of showreeling for their BAFTAS And the ‘Best coverage of a tired nurse On a ward during during Covid ‘ award goes to...

I appreciate all the medical staff out there working under these horrendous circumstances, don’t get me wrong. But all this emotive stuff on the news is about 9 months too late. Far too late.

Yes I do find it helpful. Helpful for the people talking about it so that they feel a tiny bit recognised and validated. I think the least we can do is honour them and recognise their needs when they are selflessly putting their lives on the line day in day out.

Have they shown any male HCPs crying?

I just think it reflects reality, that the situation is very bad and that people who work on the frontline are crying a lot because it’s outside their normal range of what they can cope with, practically and emotionally.

There’s a huge increase in incidence of PTSD amongst HCP. That will impact people’s health for a long time. Both directly for the people with the PTSD and because the staff retention rates in the future will impact healthcare significantly.

Yabvu.
They are watching people die alone in front of them at a high rate.
Your post makes you sound like you have no humanity.

But aren't you happy enough to depend on nurses when you and your family need them. And for free.
It's well for you.

Some of you on here should be ashamed of yourselves.

@bumblingbovine49

This thread just shows what selfish fuckers most people are. After all, we don't want our cozy life upset,

it's so boring' staying at home
it's sooooooo boring watching lots of people ill and dying all the time watching people cry about it.
It's so boring having to listen to numbers of people dying all the time
It's so boring having to listen to people upset at the worst time of their lives.

I know let's take the piss instead or let's just say they are lying or exaggerating to make it more interesting.

Yes I know we maybe do have compassion fatigue but that doesn't mean you have to give into to it or say it. By all means don't watch If you can't cope or have had enough but a bit less moaning about how other people's misery is boring wouldn't go amiss

You all sound like bloody teenagers.

You sound like a teenager - exaggerating and calling people names. Not a particularly nice one, either!

@Physer

I was hoping it might be a wake up call to those who still think it's all a myth.

The small, but noisy, group of people who think it’s a myth are completely irredeemable. They can’t be swayed by footage that presumably they’ll dismiss as being fake.

The government are desperate.
They need full compliance now due to their own negligence in December.

I’ve only seen a few of these stories and every time I am struck with horror at the situation and renewed gratitude and awe at these people who are dealing with so much and making so much sacrifice. It reminds me why we have to stay at home, be so careful when food shopping, and confirms my decision to not be sending our kids to school despite keyworker status. We have to stop the spread of this virus. It’s too easy to be blasé about it, with no personal connection to the healthcare service and horror. We are greatly inconvenienced and the kids are going stir-crazy, but these reports help us to remember what others are going through. I think they’re very important.
The last thing needed is people celebrating the vaccine rollout and starting to feel free before the population is vaccinated. I do think that these reports serve to remind us that we are still in the middle of an awful pandemic even if the main impact on our lives is cabin fever and boredom with Netflix.

All TV news in the U.K. is extremely politicized, including the BBC (in favtbid argue, especially the BBC). The idea that Britain is some idyllic country with a balanced media is a myth. But the TV news and mainstream press is always very pro establishment and pro government - not to be mistake with proTory though the Tories are usually closer to what the establishment (financial elite) demand than are Labour. Usually, not always.

Of course those in the media believe they have an independent voice and to an extent they do - as long as it broadly aligns with what the British establishment/financial elites want. If it didn’t, they wouldn’t be there on that chair/office and there would be some other clone almost entirely reinforcing and echoing establishment values - while amusingly believing they were being independent and opinionated.

They're showing it all again on Breakfast this morning, and the Scottish version, and talking to journalists about it....

As if the numpties who are having house parties and going into each other's houses in groups are watching it.

All a bit too much now. Who doesn't know in January 2021 that Covid is a thing, which makes some people ill and kills others?

@Choccorocco

I’ve only seen a few of these stories and every time I am struck with horror at the situation and renewed gratitude and awe at these people who are dealing with so much and making so much sacrifice. It reminds me why we have to stay at home, be so careful when food shopping, and confirms my decision to not be sending our kids to school despite keyworker status. We have to stop the spread of this virus. It’s too easy to be blasé about it, with no personal connection to the healthcare service and horror. We are greatly inconvenienced and the kids are going stir-crazy, but these reports help us to remember what others are going through. I think they’re very important. The last thing needed is people celebrating the vaccine rollout and starting to feel free before the population is vaccinated. I do think that these reports serve to remind us that we are still in the middle of an awful pandemic even if the main impact on our lives is cabin fever and boredom with Netflix.

Whilst I agree that we should follow the current restrictions / guidance, but for a lot of people the impact is far greater than canon fever or boredom with Netflix. Some people are losing their jobs, homes and businesses.

BBC Breakfast laying it on thick again this morning

It’s a government strategy which the networks are happily helping with because it fits with their public service remit. It’s intended to counter those photos of a Sunday night outpatients corridor claiming hospitals are empty and it’s all been overblown. It’s also intended to change behaviour and so ease the burden on the NHS.

And - everyone cries in a tough job. Journalists cry after talking to bereaved mothers in the car on the way home or after hanging up the phone. Soldiers cry when their mates die or after seeing terrible things. If you can’t cry during the endless exhausting shit show that is this pandemic you’ll have a breakdown later. That hairdresser was just trying to protect him/herself from having to think about the big nasty thing. The human brain does that.