We didn’t ask to be heroes!
This is a rant from someone who was on the front line during 2020 – not the NHS front line but the disposable, underrated Care Home front line.
There were many stories of “cruelty” in Care Homes during the pandemic. Cruelty?? Things were overlooked and standards dropped at times during the panic and fear. But I seriously doubt that there was deliberate cruelty.
I am naive maybe…
But if there was any “cruelty”, it was how front line Care Home staff were treated.
Everyone suffered during the coronavirus outbreak. One way or another, everyone has something to look back on and say “I hated that”.
A great deal of news air-time was reporting the plight of elderly people imprisoned in care home bedrooms. And the deep distress of their relatives who were refused entry.
Emotive words.
People demanded that the government forced care homes to throw open their doors and allow relatives to visit their depressed and lonely parents.
I was part of that. I was one of the wicked, cruel, inhuman care home staff who locked elderly in their rooms and refused to show them the light of day.
