Pandemic poetry @skylewriting: NHS heroes – the Covid tattoo

 

One thing that has become very clear during the pandemic is the incredible work done by hospitals and those working in health care.

A problem with it is that much of it is hidden, seen daily on the wards and by the staff, but of course not seen in the street, therefore it can be easy to miss, easy to misunderstand, easy to minimise.

It is a vast machine helping us, ranging from doctors and nurses to clerical staff, porters, lab workers, and the ambulance crews.

Even if health care staff are trained and often used to seeing death, I still wonder how big issues with post traumatic stress we will see over the coming years once the pandemic is gone.

Those who get problems, will they still get the support they are getting now? Will they get help and understanding, five years after the pandemic?

I hope so.

The anti-maskers and conspiracy theorists are seen, often very visibly in the news or in protests. But the health care staff who take care of us if we not only catch Covid but catch it bad, they do much of their work and heroism in closed wards, under thick levels of PPE protection, short of staff and during long shifts, heroes hidden in their healing work.

I hope our sincerest and deepest thank yous keep going to them, even in the years to come when the pandemic is gone.

Covid tattoo

 

The PPE mask´s

bruising butterfly mark:

a tattoo on heroines

and heroes.

                     – Daniel Skyle

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