Up the line to death: #covid-19 has revealed a mortal betrayal of the world’s healthcare workers - The BMJ
▻https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/01/29/up-the-line-to-death-covid-19-has-revealed-a-mortal-betrayal-of-the-world
In July 2020, I called for an immediate end in Australia to the rhetoric of “healthcare workers as heroes,” identifying it as a damaging distraction from the legal and moral imperative to accord healthcare workers the same standards of occupational safety enjoyed by workers in other industries, such as construction or mining.
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As long as the implication is generally accepted that healthcare workers have an unequivocal moral obligation to treat patients, irrespective of any risk to themselves, then governments are conveniently released from the obligation to provide a safe workplace. In law, however, employees are not compelled to work in an unsafe workplace. Neither are they ethically obliged to do so. [15-17] That they widely believe they are, is another success for the year-long gaslighting campaign against healthcare workers.