MRSA? Bloody tabloids.

[Pruni]

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[Racers]

Good spot Pruni - really interesting but sadly not entirely surprising. The media frenzy over bird flu and 101 other 'sensational' stories winds me up too - it's irresponsible to say the least. What gets me is that they whip up a culture of worry (say, over fuel shortages) and then comment on public overreaction! It's very manipulative IMO.

[Pruni]

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[Donbean]

It pisses me off BIG TIME!
Its not just the cleaning staff though its the nursing staff who are held responsible and i am so mad about this as we are fastidious where i work....BUT PATIENTS BRING IT IN WITH THEM!!!!
I make absolute strenuous efforts for 40mins at the begining and end of every bloody shift to clean clean clean bed areas, my hands are dry and cracked from hanwashing at the end of every bloody shift...as are my co workers..plus i stink of alcohol when i get home!

[Pruni]

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[Donbean]

Absolutely, thats the thing, this is what we are up against. Witha job that is hard enough to then be bullied by the public thanks to the "papers" and false information, our jobs are 100times harder.
TBH i dont actually have time to do that level of cleaning at work, its not why i went into nursing but we have to be seen to be doing it to put visitors and patients minds at rest.
And if you mention MRSA to a relative of a patient them OMG we nearly always have a battle on our hands.

[HRHWickedwaterwitch]

How depressing Pruni, I agree.

[monkeytrousers]

"No wonder we don't trust the govt if they are having to try to stay one step ahead of the rubbish in the tabloids."

Exactly Pruni. And it's an absolute scandal that these papers will use the 'public interest' defence when what's in the public interest is a nuanced debate not the usual hack cack.

[Pruni]

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[monkeytrousers]

There's a good book on this subject Pruni. It came out last year and is called "What The Media Are Doing To Our Politics' by John Lloyd.

[Pruni]

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[monkeytrousers]

Hmmmm..here's where I have to admit to being a humanities undergraduate but I agree with his point entirely!

[Pruni]

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[SenoraPostrophe]

absolutely agree with all of this. It's not just the journalists (mostly the tabloid ones, but sometimes from the quality press too), it's the way the government rush through legislation in response to it.

I still want to return to the uk one day though

[Pruni]

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