Update from The House of Plague, Day 38

[elisi]

The theme today is doctors/hospital staff/care workers.

Owen Jones: While the UK's key workers lack PPE, ministers clapping for them is an insult
Tonight, politicians will join millions to #ClapForOurCarers – as the government still fails to protect NHS and frontline workers

~

The Guardian picture essay: On the frontline: meet the NHS workers tackling coronavirus
Medical staff at University hospital in Coventry. From emergency arrivals to critical care, photojournalist Jonny Weeks was given extraordinary access to University hospital in Coventry to document the Covid-19 pandemic. This photo essay captures the contributions of those who save our lives.

~

BBC's Covid-19 reporters: 'I wanted to show the reality but was deeply troubled by what I saw'

~

Words of Derby consultant who died from Covid-19 helped save my life
Manjeet Singh Riyat died on Monday. A woman who found herself in a very dark place told of how a consultant’s poignant words stayed with her for life.

~

Doctors putting own pictures on PPE so patients can see who’s treating them.

~

I’ll update this shocking compilation every day if necessary

Is it really too much to ask that Government ministers bother to find out how many of our NHS & Care workers have lost their lives

RT if you think this should be on every UK news channel pic.twitter.com/6El9m6SxUm

— Peter Stefanovic (@PeterStefanovi2) April 23, 2020

(Direct link: https://twitter.com/PeterStefanovi2/status/1253245519612305409)

~

Write to your MP: indefinite leave to remain for NHS workers

Comments

[gillo]

I've joined one of the groups sewing scrubs, headbands and laundry masks. It helps me feel slightly less useless. Doesn't make me any less angry with the incompetent bunch who call themselves a government. I wanted to wring Grant Shapps' neck this afternoon.

[elisi]

I'm useless at sewing, alas. Although I *am* still working, and quite busy.

And I can't with the government at all.