Covid doctors: “We don’t want applause. If you want to help us, get vaccinated, protect yourself”

The medical profession, the healthcare family, is once again in maximum alert. They have the feeling again, well, between them the tingling has never disappeared that the covid-19 and all its mutations, all its waves (“they say it’s the sixth wave, but the truth is that we’ve already lost count & rdquor; mortality, or even was about to disappear. No way. They have been, they say, the only ones who have always been alert.

“It is possible that many think that more and better could have been done, but no, everything that has been possible has been done and more, much more and better than in other countries & rdquor;, says the same doctor, who has been treated more than 5,000 cases in a Barcelona hospital. “Everyone has given their lives to this and, as far as the toilets are concerned, it is not a play on words, as the incidence in our union has been 30%. We have spent more than two years without family life, living in hospitals and having made patients, colleagues, nurses, orderlies, health workers and cleaning staff our true family. We don’t want to be applauded, we don’t want more applause. If you want to help us, and we need it, society needs it! Pay attention to the authorities, get vaccinated, protect yourself, willingly accept the decisions made by the authorities, the closures and even the confinement, if it is, again, necessary, but do not applaud us anymore & rdquor ;.

The saving vaccine

Health workers have the feeling that society had ignored the danger of the pandemic once the vaccine appeared. It goes without saying that the doctors are highly surprised by the version spread by the deniers, “To those of us who should be told that, if it had not been for the vaccine, at this moment, with this latest wave, with the variant omicron, we would be suffering, without a doubt, the same and terrible mortality rate that we suffered at the start of the coronavirus & rdquor ;.

The same surprise produces among those responsible for medical criticism or questioning the vaccination of children. “This position & rdquor;, insists another doctor, specialized in covid-19,” is impossible to defend, among other reasons because in the United States several million children have already been vaccinated and there has not been a single case of sequelae, not one . Of course we must also vaccinate children and never remove the mask & rdquor ;.

Aftermath of the beginning

Doctors, nurses, health workers, cleaning staff at the centers fear again, if the public does not take seriously the advice of the authorities and the medical profession, the new alertness. And they are convinced that, if we are not prudent this Christmas, there will be a new outbreak of deaths. “The problem & rdquor ;, insists another specialist from one of the covid-19 plants of another hospital in Barcelona,” is that the medical profession has not yet recovered from the first year, chaotic and extremely harsh, which was the pandemic for all of us. Our bodies and our heads have not yet recovered from that chaos. Fortunately, I have not lived through a war, but covid-19 is a war where the enemy is almost invisible and who, if you do not succeed in killing, he kills you & rdquor ;.

In those initial days, weeks and months, the risk that all of them ran was tremendous and, of course, not only in the face of complete ignorance of the disease but also in the precariousness of the material with which they faced the virus and, above all , the uncertainty of not knowing how to treat it, causing tremendous wear and tear on the healthcare family. “People fear to live again for months like those and, in that sense, they do not have the strength to face even something similar. Hence, now, more than ever, we need the understanding and help of the population so that they take seriously that this is neither over nor on the way to ending & rdquor ;.

Save lifes

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There are those who still remember when, in the beginning, they entered the rooms or improvised ucis of patients who suffered from the unknown and deadly covid-19, simply protected with garbage bags. “People lived in the hospital and only went home to shower, change, eat something with their family, if they were lucky enough to meet them, and returned to the health center. It was a sinvivir. That life has left a terrible mark on all of us, and now the staff fear that if we are not prudent, if we ignore medical advice and authorities, the same thing will happen to us again. And there are toilets that are not going to resist it & rdquor ;, points out the same doctor with moistened eyes.

More than one doctor reports that many of his / her colleagues are tired, fed up, of seeing the wolf’s ears. “We fear that scenes will be repeated in which people give up, lower their arms and refuse to enter the rooms or the ICU. After what was suffered, which was a lot, one comes to understand certain states of mind, no matter how much they love their work. But that’s when everyone, everyone, must remember that we chose this profession because we wanted to serve others, not only for the salary, but also because we wanted to help heal people. And, as much at that time as I am afraid that now, people need us, they have never stopped needing us, so we have to keep putting on the dressing gown and entering the rooms and ucis to try to save lives, because we have already lost many, with infinite pain and sadness on the part of all “.