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COVID-19 - lots to learn from maybe unexpected sources
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Have been finding myself thinking over the past week or so that within the pandemic there are lots of people with specialist knowledge that is suddenly becoming knowledge that needs to be much more general.
Hairdressers, in addition to the obvious examples of health care practitioners, for example, spend a lot of time washing their hands and probably have useful things to teach the rest of us about how to wash our hands more frequently whilst minimising the bad effects on our skin.
Anybody who has recovered from pneumonia, might have things they can usefully tell us about what helped whilst they were ill/as they were recovering.
Anybody with lung problems/breathlessness is likely to have information they can pass on about what helps them. The same for anybody who has fatigue.
People who for reasons of their own health, already deliberately limited face to face contact with others, or had this as a side effect of not being able to travel or have the energy to spend socialising in person, are likely to have good ideas for how to spend time when we're seeing fewer people face to face.
Prisoners probably have quite a bit to say about how to exercise in confined spaces.
People living in poverty and people who used to do so, are likely to have good ideas for substitutions / things you can work round not having eg. toilet rolls, disposible menstural products.
People with experiences of living in non-UK cultures are likely to have other good ideas about working around things it's hard to get eg. the bidet substitue for toilet roll.
Depending on what sort of demand there is for hospital beds, I suspect some seriously ill patients who would in peacetime be admitted to hospital will be left at home to be cared for by their close people. If this is the case, anybody with experience in providing intimate personal care is likely to have knowledge worth sharing eg. how you change the bed linen when someone is lying in bed.
Chefs/bakers/cooks should be able to help with recipes for soups/broths/ other smooth foods it's easier for people who are breathless to eat. They might be able to help with flavourful drinks.
There will be lots more; these are the ones that occured to me as I was thinking round the issue for people individually, rather than the other side of it eg. manufacturers / engineers who can turn their skill to making medical equipment. I saw someone on Twitter suggest airline cabin crew have skills that make them easy to retrain into health care roles.
Have been finding myself thinking over the past week or so that within the pandemic there are lots of people with specialist knowledge that is suddenly becoming knowledge that needs to be much more general.
Hairdressers, in addition to the obvious examples of health care practitioners, for example, spend a lot of time washing their hands and probably have useful things to teach the rest of us about how to wash our hands more frequently whilst minimising the bad effects on our skin.
Anybody who has recovered from pneumonia, might have things they can usefully tell us about what helped whilst they were ill/as they were recovering.
Anybody with lung problems/breathlessness is likely to have information they can pass on about what helps them. The same for anybody who has fatigue.
People who for reasons of their own health, already deliberately limited face to face contact with others, or had this as a side effect of not being able to travel or have the energy to spend socialising in person, are likely to have good ideas for how to spend time when we're seeing fewer people face to face.
Prisoners probably have quite a bit to say about how to exercise in confined spaces.
People living in poverty and people who used to do so, are likely to have good ideas for substitutions / things you can work round not having eg. toilet rolls, disposible menstural products.
People with experiences of living in non-UK cultures are likely to have other good ideas about working around things it's hard to get eg. the bidet substitue for toilet roll.
Depending on what sort of demand there is for hospital beds, I suspect some seriously ill patients who would in peacetime be admitted to hospital will be left at home to be cared for by their close people. If this is the case, anybody with experience in providing intimate personal care is likely to have knowledge worth sharing eg. how you change the bed linen when someone is lying in bed.
Chefs/bakers/cooks should be able to help with recipes for soups/broths/ other smooth foods it's easier for people who are breathless to eat. They might be able to help with flavourful drinks.
There will be lots more; these are the ones that occured to me as I was thinking round the issue for people individually, rather than the other side of it eg. manufacturers / engineers who can turn their skill to making medical equipment. I saw someone on Twitter suggest airline cabin crew have skills that make them easy to retrain into health care roles.
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