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]

 

[carlos]

sounds like a tough job, fair play 

[Baldbloke]

sounds like a tough job, fair play 

It’s a great job normally with lots of black humour. But I’ll admit to being deeply effected recently and having a quiet cry on occasion at the moment. Something my wife wouldn’t expect of me!

[stihlmadasever]

Thanks for doing what your doing baldbloke.Stay safe

[Stubby]

Covid 19 ( the fear off ) seems to have made people bring out their pressure washers en mass . Everyone's drive is sparkling .  Strange ...

[spudulike]

24 minutes ago, Stubby said:

Covid 19 ( the fear off ) seems to have made people bring out their pressure washers en mass . Everyone's drive is sparkling .  Strange ...

Yup, nice new Nilfisk in the garage, drive, patio and car nice and clean.....just another job to stop the cabin fever!

[Steve Bullman]

When are people going to wake up to the risk of 5g. These foolish Amazonian tribes went and erected 5g in their villages, now look at what’s happened 

 

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/04/first-coronavirus-deaths-indigenous-communities-amazon/

[difflock]

On 07/04/2020 at 09:27, 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

 

 

Our daughter is now on the 12 Hr ICU shifts, though NI is still behind the curve, and apparently the local C Exec has also informed NHS staff that it may not be so bad as feared, at least in respect of the numbers presenting here in NI.

 

[eggsarascal]

It's all to feck, most folk are, or seem to be playing it safe, yesterday in the local village there was 2 Police cars and 4 coppers to break up a gathering, turns out the family's brother had gone round to a BBQ, the neighbours stuck the long pole into them... Come on!

[David Cropper]

15 minutes ago, eggsarascal said:

It's all to feck, most folk are, or seem to be playing it safe, yesterday in the local village there was 2 Police cars and 4 coppers to break up a gathering, turns out the family's brother had gone round to a BBQ, the neighbours stuck the long pole into them... Come on!

What does "Stuck the long pole into them mean"?