#frontline worker

Things I don’t want this week:

Like baiting “nurse hero” post on Facebook

A “2020 year of the nurse” boarder for my profile picture

A tote bag with the name of my employer/ facility on it

Provided fast food lunches

Things I do want this week:

Fair wages

Safer working conditions (0 tolerance for continued patient to nurse abuse)

Benefits for part time workers making full time hours

Appropriate PPE

17 Covid Deaths On, India’s Airline Pilots Demand Frontline Worker Status

In Air India alone, 1,995 personnel had tested positive with 583 hospitalised till February 2021. New Delhi: A body of India’s airline pilots has demanded “frontline worker” status to its members, seeking all Covid-related benefits that go with the tag. This includes priority vaccination, insurance coverage, and compensation. To bolster its claim, it has cited 17 pandemic-related deaths in this…

मंत्रियों को एक बार फिर मैदान में उतारने में देरी क्यों ?

यह सर्वविदित है कि कोरोना के खिलाफ लड़ाई एकजुटता से ही जीती जानी संभव है। इसके लिए जितनी गंभीरता योगी सरकार दिखा रही है, उतना ही अस्पताल प्रबंधन, स्वास्थ्य कर्मियों, फ्रंटलाइन वर्कर और आम जनता को भी दिखानी होगी।2020 में महामारी के पहले चरण में ज्यादा चुनौतियों के बावजूद हम सब ने मिलकर इसे हराया ही है। मगर अब 2021 में दूसरे चरण में काफी लापरवाही हो रही है। जरा सोचिए कि जिस शख्स की कोरोना जांच…

कोरोना: स्वास्थ्य विभाग के निर्देश के बावजूद टीका नहीं लगवा रहे हैं पंचायतीराज कर्मी, अबतक 19,817 ने लिया डोज

बिहार में कोरोना टीकाकरण अभियान के तहत फ्रंटलाइन वर्करों में पंचायतीराज कर्मियों का टीकाकरण बेहद कम हुआ है। राज्य में 31 हजार पंचायतीराज कर्मियों में से मात्र 19,817 कर्मियों ने कोरोना वायरस का टीका… Source link

If you're wondering why I was offered it, it's because I'm a frontline social care worker. I've seen a lot of stories about the vaccine and I was concerned to take it. My colleague is very anti-covid vaccine so he put doubts in my head. Then my parents had theirs done. I'm scared of getting covid. For myself but also my parents. I don't 100% trust the vaccine if I'm being honest but after consideration, I am going to go ahead with it (with medical approval first). I've seen others with my bleeding disorder get it. They use a shorter needle. Hopefully I am okay as technically I'm not supposed to have any intramuscular injections but they haven't made it with another method as I usually get mine subcutaneously. Tomorrow I will call the haemophilia centre at the hospital to see if there's any precautions I should take before/after and then book myself in.

I had been pretty lucky to work in a part of healthcare where I didn’t have to have direct contact with COVID-19 patients on a regular basis. However, recently my company has told us we have to “volunteer” at our designated COVID-19 clinic where our patients get treatment. My husband being immune compromised doesn’t give me an excuse because EVERYONE in my company either has children, immune compromised relatives, or are immune compromised themselves. So, I started going. Luckily, we have enough PPE to cover us all, unlike hospitals and nursing homes. The patients I have come into contact with are pretty close to their “run” at the clinic. It has given me access to the vaccine earlier than others. My experience hasn’t been the worst.

This only makes me angrier when I see people not social distancing or masking up. It makes me furious to hear some people I called friends until this point talk about how they refuse to wear a mask because it does nothing for them or that only people who wear masks are getting the virus. How can people ignore science? How can they not care about other human beings to the point they willingly endanger their loved ones every time they walk out of the house? What possess them to be so...stupid? I honestly don’t know how I can call someone a friend if they have such a high disregard for themselves and others. Then, they get angry with me when I tell them we cannot be friends if they do not take the masks and social distancing seriously.