Smurf, you should be ashamed of yourself.
Miss Z has just come home from a 14 hour shift at the local general hospital.
There are 79 COVID cases there. The hospital has about 500 beds and 20 intensive care beds. All are used. There is no spare capacity.
Elective surgery has been suspended. A&E cases are being transferred to hospitals further afield but the worry is that the new spread will overwhelm them as well.
During the first wave she worked in ITU and witnessed so many deaths in otherwise healthy people that it thoroughly upset and exhausted her and her colleagues.
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