As coronavirus fears grow, doctors and nurses face abuse, attacks

[IronLionZion]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/coronavirus-doctors-nurses-attack-mexico-ivory-coast/2020/04/08/545896a0-7835-11ea-a311-adb1344719a9_story.html

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.

Panicking irrational people are worse than the virus

[SheltieLover]

1. WTF?

Beyond words... 🤬🤬🤬🤬

[mahina]

2. Even Duterte did something right.

Donald? Donald?

Those people should be cleaning their homes, watching their kids, making them food, free, helping them in every way they can. They are stupid selfish venal imbeciles.

[IronLionZion]

3. That's what we do in my building

Hospital workers treating COVID patients can't even see their own kids/spouses because they have to isolate. Neighbors bring them groceries and supplies with no touch drop off in front of their door for safety. People have baked them homemade bread.

Forget about any leadership from certain so-called leaders. Normal people have to be neighborly and look out for each other from a safe distance. It's really shitty to have to deal with a 12 or 13 hour stressful workday and then come home to hostile assholes.