Diary of a (secondline) clinicianAs I've said on this blog before, there's been an effusive out-pouring of love both corporate and communal for healthcare workers, love to which I certainly don't feel I can lay claim to. Sure, healthcare workers work long hours, look after sick people at their most vulnerable, and ensure that society can continue to be productive; all true and things to which I can well attest. However, many other 'essential workers' as the government calls us collectively work just as hard, if not harder at the present time, ensuring our society doesn't fall apart. The supermarket workers I see tirelessly stacking shelves at all hours of the day, the teachers who now have to deliver both an in-person and a virtual curriculum concurrently to their split classrooms, and the tram drivers getting us all to where we need to be come easily to mind amongst the many possible examples. "However, many other 'essential workers' as the government calls us collectively work just as hard, if not harder at the present time" As I walked to work this week, passing three hospitals before getting to mine, I noticed a new set of heroes getting out and doing their bit for the war effort. Spotless has employed hundreds of people for whom other work is unfortunately no longer an option nor possible, to leave the safety and comfort of their homes and clean the streets. In our area with many public amenities this seems to mean quite literally disinfecting each and every public bench from one end of Flemington Road to the other, in addition to the usual rubbish collecting and minor maintenance. While I was unsure of the value of spraying what I can only assume was disinfectant of some sort over the footpath, these workers were undoubtedly leaving the city cleaner than before they came. "quite literally disinfecting each and every public bench from one end of Flemington Road to the other" So I am reminded each morning as I pass the team at various stages of their trip northwestwards of the many faces and roles that make our human community what it is, resilient to change and adversity. While healthcare workers may be the public lightning rod of the recognition of this at the current, we are just the tip of the iceberg, an iceberg that goes tens of professions and tens of thousands of people deep.
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