What Healthcare Workers Say about their Work after 14 Months Corona

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I am going to post extracts of testimonials found in a German speaking chat:

I assist mentally and physically disabled people who are living in an assisted living facility. It's only young adults (no risk group) living in the group, many of them with solid partnerships. [...] Since the beginning of the pandemic absolutely no one is allowed to enter our facility. [...] Contacts can only take place in the open, with distance and protective mask. Sexuality, tenderness, hugging? All forbidden. Where should it take place anyway?

The group has always been very harmonic. Now it's a constant fight. They can't stand each other anymore. [...]

I am supposed to be present during visits of parents as a watchdog to make sure that the hygiene measures are obeyed. Who am I to stand between parents and their children? It is all so inhumane and disgusting!

[In the 14-months period] we had six positive cases (all only mild symptoms). This has changed after the vaccination. [After a few days off, when I returned to work] two days after the vaccination, [...] 8 out of 10 residents were in bed with fever, headache and chills. One young man was so badly affected that he ended up in hospital. Since the vaccination, his hands are numb, he can no longer feel them. The second shot is scheduled for next week. [...]
 
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I've been working for more than 20 years in a nursing home for the elderly, and I still love my work. However it not easy to motivate myself any longer when seeing the many questionable and completely exaggerated measures.

There are still so many restrictions in place for the old people although they have been wholly vaccinated several weeks ago. They are tested twice a week. They need to wear FFP2 masks. While eating they must sit alone at a table. Visits are restricted despite negative tests.

I am constantly pressured to get the voluntary vaccination. [...]
 
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I'm currently on night shift in a maximum care hospital in ICU. We still don't have any covid patients on the ward. Yesterday and the day before we had three vacant beds and the doctors are panicking that we could be running out of beds. Yesterday I noticed that a patient without corona was registered via the ER. Another hospital had rejected him, and our clinic also first rejected him because corona patients could have come. Then a non-specialist senior physician from our clinic took pity and admitted the patient.... You can't imagine the indignation of our doctors! When I remarked, "Has anyone thought about the patient who has been in the ambulance for hours?" our doctor on duty left the kitchen....

This is not the medical care we had a year ago. I am ashamed of our doctors and our hospital.
 

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Agree with ecstatichampster. Thank you Giraffe.
 
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I am an paramedic [...] Already at the beginning of the "pandemic" diagnoses were made up to justify a covid-19 suspicion. We were then supposed to transfer the symptom-free to other hospitals, which at that time served as covid hospitals. Our local hospital was virtually empty [...]

When staff members from the medical rescue service tested positive with the antigen test, they were still supposed to work as long as they had no symptoms. On the other hand, a final test was carried out on inpatients on the day of their discharge. Strangely, many were then suddenly positive without symptoms, and therefore were transferred by the rescue service to a covid hospital. No one of my co-workers thinks that this is fishy. Madness!
 
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I work in an ICU of a maximum care provider, in the covid-ICU [...] As always in that ward some of the patients are actually seriously ill, but very old and with multiple morbidities, and if they are not very old they have pre-existing diseases and they are almost always obese. [...] some of our patients have proven super infections, often HSV pneumonia. So what is actually causative for the respiratory restriction? [...] our staff was never at its limit, apart from the week after the second vaccination (the young female colleagues in particular felt the strong adverse effects). [...] I am really very worried about the people in the old people's homes. This isolation, the violation of dignity and self-determination of these people breaks my heart. Many told me that they don't want this at all. My colleagues, unfortunately, think completely differently and consider the measures justified (although the stringency of the implementation of the measures is highly dependent on the presence of the boss...). I suspect it is largely due to the fact that we as medical staff always only apply guidelines, etc. and have forgotten to simply listen to our feelings once in a while.
 
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I work in the outpatient service and I must say that I have never been as spiritless and sad as now! In over a year we had two patients with corona. If corona is so bad, where is the rest? I can't take it anymore. It exhausts me to work with the FFP2 mask when I have to shower/bathe patients in the [heated] bathroom. Each time everything goes black and I gasp for air. [...] I love my work, but it's no fun any longer: the mask, the protective clothing, panic, fear, and still no end in sight.
 
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I work in a nursing home in Switzerland. This is not what I did my training for - for a year now it is pure horror. Poor elderly! As per instruction by the bosses I have to isolate vaccinated (!) residents when they report headaches or diarrhea pending testing and test results. Now that we have a new list of symptoms any rash could be a sign of corona. Residents are crying because they got vaccinated to get freedom back. The general conditions of many is deteriorating since the vaccination. One woman who was still walking, now - after the shot - is always in wheelchair. She says that it is probably from the vaccination, but she never wanted to be quarantined again...she sacrificed her health to be free, but now she still had to be isolated - because of headaches. She was negative, of course - just like the man we isolated on Christmas Eve, whereupon no resident would be allowed to receive visitors anymore. For some this was their last Christmas! Never forget, people spend their last days in homes, and our mission is it to make them as beautiful as possible. Many also come to the home to die, to get end-of-life care, and not to see a nurse in "full gear" last thing before dying, because you got a fever in terminal phase, and now you are still being tested.
 

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It's really sad to hear something like this. I also must agree to the Person in the Second Post (The many questionable and completely exaggerated measure one).

I see this here in Germany all the Time. Why does someone have to wear a FFP2 Mask, even at a Gas Station or a Garbage Station (especially if the Station is Empty OR the next Person is like multiple Meters away) ?. Then Ventilating at the School does not make sense either because Fresh Air doesn't help (according to the Logic from the both Stations above).

If the German MSM reported neutral, then why is ''Dr. Markus Söder'' (Premier of Bavaria) in the Directorate of the German TV Channel ''ZDF'' (as well as a few other known German Politics) ???

GYMs in Bavaria are still closed since almost 7 Months now (because of the Bavarian authorities) and in Other German States they are getting (surprisingly) Re-Opened again. I'm very Interested in that Explanation.

Why i should buy ''Rapid Tests'' to get into Other Stores, where as some Stores are now REFUSING the Supermarket Rapid Tests and are ONLY letting you in via Rapid Test from your Doctor or pharmacist (yeah, you read that right). :think:

Also the Fission between the People is gross. Sexuality, Hugging and Tenderness are very well needed. Not only for the Young People (in Terms of Dating and Relationships) but also for the Older People. Older People need also Love and Hugging and companionship. It's very sad to see that it does came that far.
 
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You can't imagine how sad it is to see our residents receiving their visitors after weeks of not being allowed to see anyone. [...] It's all so creepy. The poor people have to sit at a huge table, the visitor (only one is allowed) on the opposite side, face mask, and a plexiglas screen between them. No cuddling. That's inhuman. Everything that is happening at the moment is just sick.
 
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A young girl who could not complete secondary school because of the anti-corona measures is doing a voluntary social year in a hospital hoping to get a vocational diploma this way.

At the beginning, it was all great and even helped me psychologically to finally do something and not to sit in my room in front of the laptop all the time.

First we had to wear a FFP2 mask all the time. A few months later the weekly testing started. I felt stressed each time and it really hurt.

Now the unvaccinated people, including me, have to have us tested EVERY day. They are trying to coerce people to get vaccinated. I can't stand this pressure anymore.

I am so desperate. I really enjoyed the work and it helped me for a short period of time, but now I'm back to the point where I could only cry every day. I don't know what to do anymore because I really need this diploma.
 

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