Originally Posted by
anxious_dan
Thanks Gary, that's very re-assuring. Thanks. What I will say is the hospital was eerily quiet. I expected to arrive and see it totally overwhelmed, but it was very quiet. You are met by someone standing outside A&E, who directs you to a "green zone" or a "red zone" - as soon as i said i had a sore throat, i was taken to the red zone. There were a tonne of nurses there all kitted out in masks and everything ...
I did speak to some of the nurses - I asked them about testing. They said they could not offer a test to me, but that just today, the staff members have started to recieve testing kits for themselves. I asked them if they felt nervous about catching it - and all of them seemed so chilled - they said they weren't worried. One even said she's got a husband and child at home and that she accepts she may catch it but that part of her job is to help people so she just accepts the risk. Really wonderful people and our NHS better be treated nothing short of gold from this point onwards after many years of cuts.
I think my main anxiety right now is "what if i had a chest problem, now catch covid on top of that". I'll try to remember the point that hopefully it doesn't hang around in air particles ect. I appreciate your reply, thanks.