NHS hospitals are not ‘scaremongering’ about a winter Covid wave
David Oliver, NHS consultant physician and a columnist for the BMJ makes a plea on behalf of his colleagues as they face a surge of admissions due to the spread of the omicron variant of COVID-19 this Christmas.
"Pandemic health protection measures are not all about you and your own personal risk or appetite for it, your own ‘natural immunity’ or fitness, your own liberty or freedom. They are about protecting everyone else.
It might be your own parent, grandparent or sibling that dies from COVID-19 or from lack of access to overwhelmed services. It might be your neighbour’s or someone in another town or from another social class or ethnic group,
This isn’t a game and we need to take it seriously and stop posturing and point-scoring, before, once again, we have left it too late to act"
Source: Byline Times, 21 December 2021