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I am a midwife who still feels extreme anger about the way the pandemic was handled (Johnson government wasted \u00a310bn on PPE, Covid inquiry finds, 14 July).<\/p>\n
I remember being fitted for a FFP3 mask and then being told there weren\u2019t enough to go around and given a basic paper mask instead. I remember being told that the hospital where I worked couldn\u2019t keep providing clean scrubs, so I had to take my potentially infected scrubs home to wash instead. I remember management shutting computers down to enforce social distancing, then reopening them when they realised we needed those computers to do our jobs.<\/p>\n
I remember being sent into homes where people had Covid to see new mums and babies, and wondering if I was going to die as a result. I remember Tory MPs joking that surely all workplaces were having social drinks after work. We weren\u2019t: we had a staffroom about 2 metres by 1 metre for 20 members of staff, and had to supply our own washing-up liquid. We rushed home as fast as we could after our shifts to scrub off the infection so as not to endanger our families.<\/p>\n
My huge anger remains. And I\u00a0did not get a bonus. I didn\u2019t even\u00a0get paid particularly well. Hearing about the staggering sums squandered by Boris Johnson\u2019s government, I feel as angry as ever. It is not unexpected, but it makes me reluctant to trust any government ever again. I hope Johnson is rightly ashamed of his legacy, although I doubt he is. Have an opinion on anything you\u2019ve read in the Guardian today? Please <\/em><\/strong>email<\/em><\/strong> <\/em><\/strong>us your letter and it will be considered for publication in our <\/em><\/strong>letters<\/em><\/strong> section.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am a midwife who still feels extreme anger about the way the pandemic was handled (Johnson government wasted \u00a310bn on PPE, Covid inquiry finds, 14 July). I remember being fitted for a FFP3 mask and then being told there weren\u2019t enough to go around and given a basic paper mask instead. I remember being<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[25012,7072,5333,11968,2089,357,3954,3233],"class_list":{"0":"post-51193","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-abated","9":"tag-anger","10":"tag-covid","11":"tag-frontline","12":"tag-handling","13":"tag-inquiry","14":"tag-tories","15":"tag-worker"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Laura Matthews<\/strong>
West Wickham, London<\/em><\/p>\n