Covid-19: The government’s gaslighting has left vulnerable patients feeling forgotten

McLellan and Abbasi say that we must “face the fact that the nation’s attempt to ‘live with covid’ is the straw that is breaking the NHS’s back.”1 The government’s unwillingness to confront the current reality of covid is also directly impacting some of the most vulnerable patients. Some are developing social whiplash—we have instructed them to pivot from shielding, returning to normalcy, and then returning to shielding with no real guidance to support them re-joining society thereafter, beyond vague hand waving and a deferral to clinical judgment. It is concerning that the government appears to have slipped out the back, leaving patients wondering what they should be doing next.Since the beginning of the pandemic, doctors have convinced the most vulnerable patients to retreat to their homes and shield, which has sometimes resulted in greatly increased anxiety as they live restricted lives in constant fear of infection. We have earnestly led…
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