One of Mrs Vets close friends rang her this afternoon in some distress.    She works in an aged care facility,.    She had just finished sitting with a dying resident holding their hand.    The person was calling out for her family who live close by.   She just couldn’t understand why they weren’t there … thought they had abandoned her.

The facility is in lock-down as per instructions … no visitors allowed.

Reminds me of the saying attributed to the Americans in the Vietnam war … ‘burning the village to save the village’.

Is this what we’ve really come down to?    Sad, sad, sad.