What is classified as front line worker now?

Hi,

Not a question to troll, so please don't act the maggot
What are now classes as front line workers. I have a lot of friends who work in residential services and yet no recognition of being front line, despite the conditions.
Prison officers was another one I thought of

fryup

i would class a front line worker at the moment as..anyone dealing with the public 1 to 1 on a daily basis....health workers, carer's, retail staff, bank/credit unions, postal staff, emergency services, guards and the like

DrPhilG

Personally I'd class "front line" as the doctors and nurses literally in contact with the infection. As in confirmed infection, and delivering up close and personal care.

Everyone else who has to be at work I'd call a "key worker".

I work in an ICU, but I'm admin so haven't (yet anyway) been in an area with confirmed patients, and even if I was it would only be in an admin capacity rather than delivering care, so I still wouldn't call myself front line.

I do have to be at work though, so I'm a key worker and have a note in the car to say so.

tonycascarino

I am with DrPhilG in that medical staff in direct contact with coronavirus patients should be the only ones deemed as in the frontline.

DrPhilG

tonycascarino wrote: »

I am with DrPhilG in that medical staff in direct contact with coronavirus patients should be the only ones deemed as in the frontline.

And as I say that's no slight on the key worker group.

I just think that as tough as it is for supermarket staff for example, dealing with (potentially) infected people on a daily basis with no PPE, these nurses are literally face to face with coughing spluttering and definitely infected people.

Strazdas

DrPhilG wrote: »

And as I say that's no slight on the key worker group.

I just think that as tough as it is for supermarket staff for example, dealing with (potentially) infected people on a daily basis with no PPE, these nurses are literally face to face with coughing spluttering and definitely infected people.

The key workers are arguably just as important as the frontline healthcare staff. They are literally keeping the country running during a national emergency.

D3V!L

I'm a key worker in the private sector. Without me 160 people wouldn't be able to work. Luckily I can work from home but there is an occasion where i need to actually go into the office.

Montage of Feck

Jingoism

Ultrflat

I think retail workers should get the tick of front line with out them we'd be phucked...

corner of hells

I'm a social care worker in low threshold homeless services.Over the last couple of weeks, we would have dealt with a number of suspected cases along with a number of staff having to CD stay home because of symptoms .
I dont necessarily think of myself as a frontline worker when I think about nurses , doctors and staff dealing directly with people with infection.
Maybe a second line worker.

Yeah, it's things like that I think if, some people still stuck working to provide services In what could be potential cases of people being sick.

Rothko

Montage of Feck wrote: »

Jingoism

Mrs OBumble

D3V!L wrote: »

I'm a key worker in the private sector. Without me 160 people wouldn't be able to work. Luckily I can work from home but there is an occasion where i need to actually go into the office.

#meToo ... for about quarter the number of staff.

The bus drivers who take me into the office when I need to go there are key workers, too.

So are the rubbish collectors who take stuff away from my house once a week. Actually, these lads are some of the most important public health professionals I know. Second only to the lads who make sure that the water supply to my house in drinkable.

matchthis

Frontline, I thought would be people dealing directly with the virus. Essential staff would be the ones providing the service keeping the country going. Both equally important and fair play to the lot of em. Those of us that that dont fall into those sectors are isolating and not giving the virus the opportunity to spread. Each group has to do their part to help the other group.

Sam Hain

D3V!L wrote: »

I'm a key worker in the private sector. Without me 160 people wouldn't be able to work. Luckily I can work from home but there is an occasion where i need to actually go into the office.

Humblebrag

_Brian

I think anyone who is working in a role that specifically deals with confirmed covid patients be that in hospital, nursing home or residential care.

They are the ones facing substantial increases exposure. It’s through this increased exposure and viral load that their immune system collapses and causes such terrible sickness
In otherwise healthy people.

Don’t count retail staff as front line workers, they are significantly important to our community though.

Urethral Buttercup

There'll be an awful lot of waffle spoken about doctors and nurses over the next few years and no doubt many of them have played a vital role (plenty twiddling their thumbs too) but I've seen myself the number of low grade civil servants, cleaners, people involved with the preparation of food, and shop workers putting in huge shifts to keep the country running and honestly, I'd say nobody will remember or even give a phuck in six months time, and the people on here that benefited enormously from social security and spent five or six weeks in the safety of their homes will be back to whinging about "dole scum" and 'socialism' and "equality of opportunity" and a whole load of other cretinous low-level tropes and memes as usual. Go on to phuck the lot of you.