Idiots =x
Did you get a shielding letter? I didn't, and that was...unsettling. My health has been monitored for the better part of the last decade and I was mostly forgotten about once the pandemic hit. Not that I mind that to some extent - I hate being checked on - but yeah, I think my local surgery has struggled with things as well. Overworked and underpaid =/
I'm hoping WFH will become a new normal - or at least an accepted normal alongside office working - because I don't think I could ever go back to the office after this (and if they try, I'll be having words with my GP - if nothing else I couldn't do my current hours in office) and really I think the pandemic has demonstrated just how beneficial WFH is and how unnecessary being in an office can be. There have been resource problems, but we've all managed well enough...in fact, considering we've been down one person since November, I think we've done more than well enough >.>
Well, we've waited four years, a few more months won't kill us, haha. Better to be separated and alive than together and ill or struggling!
:-))
No, I never got a shielding letter, which means I couldn't access food delivery slots for a while when I should have been able too. My doctors told me I have to though, figure that out. I have heard a few others not getting the letter too. Must be hell working in the NHS right now tbf.
I seen enough when I was rushed to A&E last March. The pandemic had just hit, and my local hospital didn't have proper protocols in place at that time. There was covid patients
everywhere on the emergency ward I was put on. I will never forget seeing them all, or the doctors, nurses, porters etc. struggling so much to deal with it all. My sister-in-law recently told me she wasn't gonna get the jab because "covid doesn't scare her". I told her about it in graphic detail, and she soon stopped that and got vaccinated.
*massive hugs* to anyone on PC who works in any essential areas btw <3
I hope you get to be together soon! :)