Doctors are supposed to fight disease. Doctors freaking out at infectious disease is like soldiers freaking out at being deployed to a combat zone.
Man (or woman) up.
Doctors nurses and paramedics do. They get coughed on and risk TB.
They get bled on and risk Hep C and aids. They blow their backs out moving the morbidly obese. They get threatened and assaulted by crazies drunks and addicts. Non of us signed up to deal with a completely avoidable plague that can bring death to our families.
I once packed the bleeding nose of an aids patient. Took me thirty minutes and when I was done my gown and face mask was covered from head to toe in a fine pink mist. When I finished he asked how long the packing needed to stay. I told him three days. He responded “ I’m taking it out, I work as a bar tender and I can’t go to work like this.” I told him if he did he could bleed to death somewhere else I wasn’t risking my life and my wife’s repacking his nose.
And what risks does Mr Lawyer take? Paper cuts? Eye strain?
When you have a MANLY job you can lecture us to man up.
There's a difference between a combat mission and a kamikaze mission. Being an under-equipped NHS worker borders on the latter.