Covid-19

[Baldbloke]

 

I’m actually on my last morning of 4 night shifts driving Paramedics and Advanced Nurse Practioners around the towns and country. Over the last four weeks we’ve come across some scarily sick people and a few folk that needed the paperwork and were pronounced dead. Some have died at home with lower tract infections, and not all have been over 70. We don’t carry any test kits so we’re assuming everyone is infectious and gowning, gloving and masking up before going in.

You’ll be seeing the daily figures being bandied about by the press. These figures are about 5 days behind the actuality. They are also just the figures from the hospitals. This is for two reasons, because those we see that have died in the community often have underlying conditions and it’s the Covid that’s been the final straw that’s broken the camels back, and secondly because we neither have the resources, the time or the test kit to definitely state the cause of death. The triaging merely mentions either that the patient is a suspected Covid or the household was/is on isolation. There’s a heck of a lot more people infected than is generally realised by the public.

After each home visit it takes me about 20 minutes to disinfect all the diagnostic kit, the bags, drug boxes and the car surfaces we touch with gloves.

I cannot emphasise enough the benefits of the lockdown and the need to ensure hand washing and social distancing. A number of our SNHS staff are sick and this morning even I’ve developed a cracking sore throat. They now reckon even the 2 metres isn’t a safe distance from someone coughing or sneezing and that any infectious bodily fluids might survive for 17 days on a viable surface.

Take great care out there and be ultra cautious while shopping. Also be very aware of what you touch while out and about[emoji1303]

 

[David Cropper]

7 minutes ago, Baldbloke said:

 

I’m actually on my last morning of 4 night shifts driving Paramedics and Advanced Nurse Practioners around the towns and country. Over the last four weeks we’ve come across some scarily sick people and a few folk that needed the paperwork and were pronounced dead. Some have died at home with lower tract infections, and not all have been over 70. We don’t carry any test kits so we’re assuming everyone is infectious and gowning, gloving and masking up before going in.

You’ll be seeing the daily figures being bandied about by the press. These figures are about 5 days behind the actuality. They are also just the figures from the hospitals. This is for two reasons, because those we see that have died in the community often have underlying conditions and it’s the Covid that’s been the final straw that’s broken the camels back, and secondly because we neither have the resources, the time or the test kit to definitely state the cause of death. The triaging merely mentions either that the patient is a suspected Covid or the household was/is on isolation. There’s a heck of a lot more people infected than is generally realised by the public.

After each home visit it takes me about 20 minutes to disinfect all the diagnostic kit, the bags, drug boxes and the car surfaces we touch with gloves.

I cannot emphasise enough the benefits of the lockdown and the need to ensure hand washing and social distancing. A number of our SNHS staff are sick and this morning even I’ve developed a cracking sore throat. They now reckon even the 2 metres isn’t a safe distance from someone coughing or sneezing and that any infectious bodily fluids might survive for 17 days on a viable surface.

Take great care out there and be ultra cautious while shopping. Also be very aware of what you touch while out and about

 

Christ mate! Look after yourselves. Just hope people realise what you and your colleagues are doing for everybody.

[Baldbloke]

Sorry about posting it here. Bit knackered this morning. I’ll copy and paste it somewhere more suitable[emoji1303]

[Woodworks]

As said look after yourself and rest. Not resting is clearly not good for those infected if the PM is anything to go by.