I loved this. Loved maybe the wrong term to use considering the subject matter, but overall, it reflected a lot of what I saw. Saying that, I did not see anyone from primary care wearing the full body suit as shown in the film and while our surgery tried to do things on a remote basis when possible, this was to reduce the risk of bringing infection into, or spreading infection around, the home.
Sadly, we know that the shortage of PPE did contribute to the premature deaths from COVID of those in care homes. Exercise Cygnus had raised this as an issue before, but the government did not act on this.
Just a reminder if there is any doubt about COVID.
1 - COVID kills. I have treated people who survived as well as too many who died. A nursing home I am involved in looking after took ages to become full again after COVID killed many of the residents there last year. I have seen nothing that killed so many so quickly before.
2 - Face masks save lives. Not just by reducing the risk of spreading it if you have no symptoms, but as seen by those working in healthcare, myself included, face masks prevented many from catching this when treating those with COVID.
3 - Funeral homes were overwhelmed over the wave of infections seen in the winter surge of infections earlier this year. I know as I had to visit a few. One had issues coping despite the increased capacity that they had built. Speaking to someone who works in a funeral home, they said that they had never been busier during the winter wave.
4 - People with no symptoms can spread COVID. We saw that with the super spreader events held by President Trump last year. We have seen other diseases spread through those with no symptoms, a famous example of the past being Typhoid Mary and we also see that today with HIV.
5 - Just because Boris has dropped restrictions, this does not mean that we can act like we did in 2019. Our local hospital is under pressure again, though not let to the point like they were this winter when things were limited to life and death operations only.
6 - Vaccines work. We have seen that in the USA. The states where vaccination rates were lower had the higher numbers of COVID than those were vaccination rates were higher.
