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Hello everyone
I was just wondering if it's safe to continue to work with asthma, type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure, I work within the care setting, staff of 10 and support 4 people in residential settings.
Many thanks
 
Cocopuddins said:
Hello everyone
I was just wondering if it's safe to continue to work with asthma, type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure, I work within the care setting, staff of 10 and support 4 people in residential settings.
Many thanks
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I wouldn't. I don't even want to go out, but needs must or how would Mum and son get food! The Gov should have been organised for a pandemic, why didn't they know one was coming? I did. :D Pillocks. Online shopping should have been made ultra easy. Don't know what would happen to the vulnerable peoples though. It's a nightmare.
 
Hi cocopuddins. Trouble with your question is that there is no answer because it depends on so many factors.

What do you mean by safe? People talk about things being safe or unsafe without thinking about it. Safety is a relative thing. Something is safer than something else, it is not safe or unsafe in its own right.

So, one way of thinking about it is to ask yourself if going to work is safer than going out to do some shopping. I would imagine that answer will depend principally on whether your work place is taking things seriously or not. You can imagine circumstances where your workplace might be an infection nightmare but you can imagine circumstances where things are under as good a control as you can get at home or at the supermarket. Only you can judge how well things are organised where you work.
 
I suggest you speak to your doctor for further advice Cocopuddins. I also have asthma and type 1 and as a teacher have heard so much conflicting advice. I pinged my query to my doctor and he said that for the foreseeable future I should only work from home and not go into school, not because I am at any greater risk of contracting it, but because if I do there could be additional complications. I catch almost anything the kids are bringing into school in the winter and cold/ flu can hit me for 6, so he felt avoiding the kids of key workers at this time would be very wise.
 
Been WFH for 4 weeks. Not great.
 
Hello @Cocopuddins

Everyone is recommending to ‘work from home’ if possible in their role.

Diabetes alone doesn’t put you on the ‘extremely vulnerable list’, but I agree with others, as you have multiple other interacting conditions, if you have any uncertainty you should talk to your GP for individual circumstances.

Hope you get some answers!
 
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