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by gadders 1349 days ago
>>The biggest difficulty has been the Covid policies put into place, both inside and outside hospitals.

Not that they were followed particularly well. My dad was in hospital for unrelated reasons, caught COVID and died within 3 days.

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Sorry for you loss!

I do think that NHS staff did their very best to follow protocols (one of my parents went into great detail about all of the steps they had to go through in between seeing each patient). However, the idea that disposable plastic smocks and perspex screens will do much against an infectious airbourne respiratory virus is just silly on its face.

Really, given the sheer amount of people who caught Covid in hospitals, they should have shut the hospitals and let almost everything else remain open.