A lobby group of healthcare workers has warned against the decision to remove face mask guidance in healthcare settings. BBC News has more.
The Scottish Healthcare Workers Coalition (SHWC) has written to ministers, claiming “very serious flaws” in changing the guidance.
The group is made up of medical professionals who worked throughout the pandemic. All members have long Covid or another chronic post-viral illness.
Face mask guidance was withdrawn in May in hospitals, dentists and GP surgeries having been in place since June 2020. The decision came after the World Health Organisation declared COVID-19 was no longer a global emergency. The Scottish Government said the country had entered “a calmer phase” of the pandemic.
Doctors from the British Medical Association (BMA) Scotland condemned the decision at the time.
The SHWC said healthcare workers were at significantly higher risk of contracting the virus and some have developed post-Covid chronic illnesses. They warned that the decision to not enforce masks in care homes and hospitals was “playing Russian roulette” with staff and patients’ welfare.
The group is demanding the reintroduction of masks in all health and social care settings and a commitment to improving ventilation and air filtration as a matter of urgency.
Data from Public Health Scotland show that an average of 35 Covid cases were reported daily in the week ending July 9th. In the same week, a total of 55 people were admitted to hospital within 14 days of returning a positive test.
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This could be because there is no body or authority to regulate or insist on amateurs playing sport in a park not having Trans in the game. —-But I have said it before that the only way this will stop is if those participating refuse to participate, and this is not easy to organise. I appreciate women will have put a lot of time, effort and money into their sport but if they feel strongly that this nonsense should stop then they must organise, or they will not have a sport left to participate in.
Strikes me as a form of subterfuge and sadism. No real man or real woman would want to take part in a competition where they had obvious unfair inborn advantages. You wouldn’t be winning anything you would just be putting the worst part of yourself on display.
Pervy bastards.
Sickening.
”Protected”? Ha! Look at this. All on the same day, so a good comparison. I’m pretty sure that British females will feel much more secure and protected knowing that only the ‘dangerous’ non-predatory woman got sent down while the three male perverts got off Scott free. They can be assured that the slap on the wrist is all the deterrent these pervs need to learn their lesson;
”On the same day Lucy Connolly was jailed for 31 months for a FB post: a policeman who sexually assaulted 2 women, a registered sex offender who asked children for naked pics online & a pervert voyeur who secretly filmed women on the toilet because he was “horny”, all walked free.”
https://x.com/Wommando/status/1847185045452104064
This dangerous nonsense will only stop if ALL women and girls refuse to participate in organised sports, whether at professional or local level (including schools).