Posted on 04/08/2020 2:44:24 PM PDT by a little elbow grease
It’s hard enough being a doctor in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. But Sanjibani Panigrahi, a psychiatrist at a government hospital in western India, now finds her own neighbors turning against her.
We are sure you have corona,” one woman recently shrieked at her, she says, — part of a torrent of abuse from residents at her apartment complex. “We will not allow you in the building.”
In some cities, health-care workers are earning standing ovations for the long, life-risking hours they’re putting in to battle the coronavirus. But in others, they’re facing discrimination and even attacks.
In Mexico, Colombia, India, the Philippines, Australia and other countries, people terrified by the highly infectious virus are lashing out at medical professionals — kicking them off buses, evicting them from apartments, even dousing them with water mixed with chlorine.
The culprits are a minority of the population. But Mexican state authorities are so worried that they’ve arranged special buses for nurses. In parts of Australia, hospitals are urging nurses not to wear their uniforms in public, to avoid attacks.
Last week, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte ordered police to protect health workers after reports of assaults — including one in which someone splashed bleach in a hospital employee’s face.
The hostility has been a shock to medical professionals already under immense strain. Scores of doctors and nurses around the world have died after being infected with the coronavirus. In many countries, health workers are struggling with a lack of basic protective equipment, such as masks.
“I understand people are afraid, but abusing doctors is not okay,” Panigrahi said by phone from the industrial town of Surat. “We are at risk more than them.”
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Democrats believe we need more of those people living here.
Great job media...
They sure do stir it up ......
Projected death rate is collapsing and fear is growing??
If I read this correctly, the attacks on health care workers happened in $hithole countries by the people who made the countries into $hitholes.
Projected death rate is collapsing and fear is growing??
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Right?
They need their PANIC
That’s our MSM.
Who's the enemy?
Low caste rednecks or high caste rednecks?
It's the MSM!!!
Blame the MSM for the hysteria the wall to wall never ending doom and gloom reporting is absolutely disgraceful!!!
NOW the MSM will start to rile the masses in the black communities then the shit will hit the fan,!!!
Today at my wife's hospital the local fire department and EMTs and rescue squad and the police dept. did a nice ‘’drive by thank you’’. My wife said everyone on her floor was very, very happy to see it. Contrast the over all basic, over all decency of the majority of Americans with these Third World morons. And Australians are behaving like this? White, Christians are doing this? Jeez.
such garbage
And the fake news services will provide the hysteria to insure that this happens.
Good to hear.
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You are a man of few words.
Well, like most grandmas I’m a woman, but even being home all day now, I don’t have time to read everything, so using a period is a fast easy way to bookmark threads that have important info, and there are more than I can keep up with these days...
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