Brutkey

Emeritus Prof Christopher May
@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us

Violence against NHS A&E staff is rising, driven at least in part by frustrations with waits for treatment, but also perhaps by a breakdown in social norms of respect for health workers?

And of course, this will no be helping the NHS retain staff nor recruit new people toward in A&E.

Call me an alarmist, but this seems to be just the latest example of a creeping barbarism & decline in civility in come parts of our civil society.

#politics #health #civility

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/aug/12/ae-nurses-attacks-rise

Andrew
@Shivviness@beige.party

@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us

You're not an alarmist. Not in the slightest.
The increased aggression and general disdain we're seeing toward healthcare workers is a direct result of Rightwing propaganda designed to specifically demonise this sector, all with an ultimate aim of privatising everything.
I think it's terrifying how easily the opinion and behaviour of "the man on the street" can thus be changed via propaganda. I mean, it wasn't that long ago these same people were stood on their doorsteps banging pots, a practice I refused to participate in.
The relative standards of decency we've hitherto enjoyed will go out the window as the climate crisis gets progressively worse. When we experience simultaneous collapses of global breadbaskets and the food becomes scarce we'll reap the whirlwind of successive Rightwing governments having taken a hatchet to British society, and it will be barbarism.

Jules she/her
@afewbugs@social.coop

@Shivviness@beige.party @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us agreed, I found it terrifying how quickly we went from "clap for our NHS heroes" during the pandemic to "look at these workshop louts scrounging for more money" during the strikes