You expect NHS staff to sacrafice time with their families in order to keep you safe, but you would not be prepared to sacrafice any of your milk consumption so there's enough for everyone.
That's what he means.
You're not panic buying and stashing it, so I don't see what the issue is.
Expecting you to drink less would be like you asking him to eat less so there was enough food to go round.....
Would he do that?
We'll never know.
I'm not eating less, because they say there's enough for everyone, but I'm not panic buying either.
I'm also not arguing that NHS staff should be made to stay at work and not be allowed home to see their families each night.
Like I said before, if we are to beat this pandemic properly, it is no good just locking down most of the country if you still have people who are working in hospitals caring for those critically I'll from the virus only to leave each day possibly infected purely and unknowingly by accident, and then returning home possibly infecting others on the way, getting home infecting their family members, who then nip out to the shops and accidentally infect someone they pass or accidentally bump into along the way. The same goes for the NHS worker possibly having picked up the virus on the way into work, only to infect others in the hospital.
If isolated to the hospital the transfer will go no further and it is contained.
I don't work in a hospital, but if I did, there is no way I would want to risk passing the virus onto my family, knowing I work in an environment where the virus is prevalent.
But I do work in research and development facility, we obviously don't have any critical patients in the various buildings, but to reduce the possibility of infection to our workforce, all staff capable of working from home, have been doing so from Monday, straight away it has reduced the size of the workforce on site by around 3000 people, around 90%. As alot of us work shifts and we would normally meet our shift opposites at change over time, the early shift now leaves 3/4hr early, having cleaned their workspace before we leave, and cleaners also clean during the gap between shifts, a deeper clean takes place during the night when we aren't there. I don't take any chances so wear nitrite gloves throughout the day so I don't have to risk touching any surfaces touched by others. When the gloves have to come off to eat or go to the loo, I dispose of the gloves and wash my hands, when ready my I wash my hands again and then put on a fresh pair of gloves.
We have an on site medical, and unless the need is an emergency, we have to answer a questionnaire to determine whether we are showing any signs of the virus before they will even let us in. The same goes to any external visitors to any of the buildings. Contact with other employees is kept to a minimum.
It seems to be working, only one of my workmates is on self isolation, his daughter has the virus, she works in a gym in London, so may have caught it there or on the train to or from work. The only other case I am aware of is the wife of someone who works in another department and he is working from home, he may have already been self isolating, before the decision was made for remote working by the company. He posted a video on our employee facebook group, that his wife (looked to be early 30's) had made from her hospital bed. She didn't know for sure how long she had been in hospital, because she had been so ill, she was over the worst of it, but still on a ventilator, she was coughing and having trouble catching her breath to talk, she did manage to say that she was desperate to see her husband and daughters again and asked people to take her predicament as a warning not to take any chances as they could end up the same as her, if not worse and dead.
So isolating hospital staff makes sense not just for my sake, but for everyones sake. We have seen 3 hospital staff now who have the virus, so we know it can happen, so why ignore it and pretend it won't happen and cause others outside the hospital to become infected.
