No NHS worker should die from Coronavirus

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NHS staff in hospitals are dicing with death every day due to inadequate protection.

Yes, the majority of nurses have masks, gloves, gowns and face shields. But that isn’t enough protection.

Recently articles have surfaced which explain and talk about ‘viral load‘. In layman’s terms it’s when you’re exposed to high levels of the virus, so walking past someone in a shop that has it you’ll receive a tiny dose and may well have the mildest of, or no symptoms at all as your immune system can cope.

A nurse, surrounded by many patients who have severe cases of Coronavirus is being given load after load of the virus. Meaning their immune system is being bombarded, it can’t cope with the levels it’s being exposed to.

Think of it the same as radiation. If you were to walk past a nuclear reactor, you’d receive a small dose, harmless. Yet stand by it for hours on end, you’ll die.

Now take a look at what South Korea ICU nurses are wearing.

Coronavirus is deemed so dangerous that patients are in sealed wards, and nurses have to wear full hazmat suits with respirator hoods.

Yet our NHS workers are meant to feel safe with face shields and FPP3 face masks. Nearly two weeks ago, Chinese doctors were saying that Western PPE isn’t good enough.

From the start, there’s been conflicting evidence of how COVID-19 spreads. Naturally, coughs and sneezes are the big ones. But the fact that symptomless carriers are still able to infect new people throws doubt into this theory, and in the last few days, we’re starting to see news stories that question whether just talking and breathing could be spreading Coronavirus.

There’s also talk of it lingering in rooms for hours after patients and infected people have been present.

Yet NHS staff keep going into wards time after time without full coverage.

Oh, and an NHS ICU source has personally told me that they’re also only being told to wear face shields when carrying out procedures that may create ‘aerosols’ – light mists of bodily fluids. So for general care and being around COVID-19 infected patients, they’re just wearing masks, glove and gowns.

If it’s to do with a lack of equipment, then the Army can help out there. Surely we have enough NBC suits for the entire Army, let alone reservists too. In total that’s nearly 100,000 troops, you can’t tell me that if a nuclear or biological attack occurred, there aren’t enough suits for all our soldiers.

Use them for our frontline nurses. Without doing so, they’re dicing with death on every shift due to the viral load they’re taking on.

Doctors and nurses are some of our most highly trained and skilled healthcare professionals; the loss of even one of them is simply not worth it. Several have already died due to incompetent protection guidelines.

These people signed up to help others, care for them, make them better. Not to die.

I can guarantee that nowhere in the application process on the NHS paperwork does it say ‘be willing to die for your country’.

These people shouldn’t be dying to save the lives of random people; this is not their job.

If I was in the NHS right now and an ICU nurse, I’d hand my notice in. I can’t believe more haven’t; it must surely be down to the faith in what they’re being told – which isn’t the whole story.

Protect our NHS workers now and get them in full hazmat suits.