'Complete fool': Healthcare worker shares nasty note amid lockdown
A British healthcare worker has blasted a neighbour for leaving a nasty note on her car, which accused her of “unessential travel” during the coronavirus lockdown in the country hit hard by COVID-19.
Sam Halms shared the now viral post on her Facebook, in hopes it would reach the person who left the note on her car.
The message was addressed to “The selfish person”, and detailed how the author of the note had been “watching” Ms Halms leave for work every day.
“I have been watching you travel every day in your car,” the note says.
“You are not in uniform, so this is clearly unessential travel!”
The person who wrote the note went on to say Ms Halms was “part of the problem” and said they had “reported” Ms Halms.
“Stay at home and protect our country and NHS,” they added.
The National Health Service (NHS), is the UK’s government-funded healthcare service. Incidentally, Ms Halms works for the NHS.
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“I go to work everyday SUPPORTING our country and have done for many years, while you are clearly spending your days watching me, probably claiming that your employed as a ‘full time mummy’,” Ms Halms wrote on Facebook.
She then questioned why the person didn’t just approach her and ask where she was going every day before writing the accusatory note.
Ms Halms then went on to explain the grim reason why she was not wearing a uniform on her way to work.
“Why on earth would I wear my uniform to and from work at this current time,” she said.
Just like in Australia, nurses in the UK are facing abuse from the public amid the coronavirus outbreak.
Susan Masters the National Director of Nursing, Policy and Practice, Royal College of Nursing in the UK revealed how nurses are being heckled in public, verbally abused and labelled as “disease spreaders”.
“This is abhorrent behaviour it must stop,” she tweeted last month.
I am speaking up for nurses and nursing in every possible setting. Today I hear from community nurses that they are being heckled at and verbally abused in the street and called “ disease spreaders “ .This is abhorrent behaviour it must stop . Please RT @SteveJFord @ShaunLintern
— Susan Masters RGN RSCN RHV MSc (@SusanMastersRCN) March 19, 2020
The Times also reported nurses in the UK were told not to commute to and from work in their uniforms, following reports of abuse.
It is not clear whether Ms Halms is a nurse, however she also noted that not all NHS staff are required to wear a uniform.
The Facebook post has now been shared more than 24,000 times, and Ms Halms said she hoped it reached the person who left the note on her car.
“If this has reached you, hopefully now you feel like a complete FOOL and that you should think twice before sticking your nose into other people’s business,” she concluded her post.
People supported Ms Halms in the comments, with a number of people saying they also work in the healthcare sector and do not wear uniforms.
“I just wanted to tell you Sam Halms, Thank you for your service especially in this time of strife,” one person wrote.
“So they left their house to put this s**tty note on your car? Clearly unessential travel,” one person noted.
Over 1.6 million cases of COVID-19 have been diagnosed worldwide and the global death toll has now surpassed 100,000.
In the United Kingdom, there are over 74,600 confirmed cases according to Johns Hopkins data, and over 8,900 deaths.
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