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<blockquote data-quote="Robinredbreast" data-source="post: 2326543" data-attributes="member: 44643"><p>Last night, watching the news, my local hospital's ICU department was shown. They are looking after a lot of covid patients already and I sat there taking it in and thought, what if...........what if I got covid, what if another person got covid, who is younger than me and they had limited ICU beds, would it be down to who gets the bed ? ie A 40 year old or a 62 year old? It has got me thinking very seriously about carrying on working or not. I'm not normally an anxious person or a worrier, I just get on with things, so lots to think about, but I don't know what to do ?</p><p>Also, a couple of of the children wont be in tomorrow, possibly Thursday too, as two of their teachers are off with one of them being tested for Covid, no result yet.</p><p></p><p>I was listening to the Taxi driver's BBC world service news this afternoon and the head of Belgium's ICU department was talking about covid, sounded so defeated, so drained, he said doctor's and nurses are working 7 days a week and are exhausted, but the adrenaline keeps them going and focused. Some of their children stay at the hospital, so when staff can go home for rest, they can get complete rest. A spokesperson from Liverpool's hospital said they have so many covid patients, no routine operations, all the op rooms are empty as they need the doctor's and nurses in ICU, covid is just exhausting so many things, somethings gotta give <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Robinredbreast, post: 2326543, member: 44643"] Last night, watching the news, my local hospital's ICU department was shown. They are looking after a lot of covid patients already and I sat there taking it in and thought, what if...........what if I got covid, what if another person got covid, who is younger than me and they had limited ICU beds, would it be down to who gets the bed ? ie A 40 year old or a 62 year old? It has got me thinking very seriously about carrying on working or not. I'm not normally an anxious person or a worrier, I just get on with things, so lots to think about, but I don't know what to do ? Also, a couple of of the children wont be in tomorrow, possibly Thursday too, as two of their teachers are off with one of them being tested for Covid, no result yet. I was listening to the Taxi driver's BBC world service news this afternoon and the head of Belgium's ICU department was talking about covid, sounded so defeated, so drained, he said doctor's and nurses are working 7 days a week and are exhausted, but the adrenaline keeps them going and focused. Some of their children stay at the hospital, so when staff can go home for rest, they can get complete rest. A spokesperson from Liverpool's hospital said they have so many covid patients, no routine operations, all the op rooms are empty as they need the doctor's and nurses in ICU, covid is just exhausting so many things, somethings gotta give :( [/QUOTE]
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