Covid Note

When the Covid-19 global pandemic hit, it didn’t stop the inflow of patients to the hospital, but the safety regulations put in place to protect the patients and staff meant that for a period, patients weren’t allowed to have visitors, including family. That meant that a lot of patients during that time went through the majority of their stay alone; I say alone, but they did have the staff of the hospital, even though the number of staff members interacting with a given patient had also been reduced for safety. Given how important it was to have my family there with me, I can’t imagine how difficult it must have been for them. Things being more difficult for the patients inevitably meant that things were more difficult for everyone else involved, especially the CNAs who interact with the patients the most. The whole pandemic was a mess in general, but to throw that on top of everything that the patients and staff were already dealing with just seems cruel. However, it does prove how, as humans, we are simultaneously unimaginably fragile and yet immensely resilient; both qualities extending across both the physical and emotional realms. It’s amazing just how much you can deal with when you have no other option. However, it should not be forgotten that it does push some people to and beyond their limit and people do commit suicide, and you shouldn’t think anything less of them for it; it’s not selfish, it’s just the absolute last option and we are acutely aware of that, sometimes it’s all just too much.