A tired British doctor left the hospital where he treated COVID-19 patients on New Year’s Eve and found himself in a crowd of maskless protesters shouting “COVID is a hoax.”
“I am disgusted but most of all heartbroken,” Matthew Lee tweeted along with video he shot from hundreds of protesters outside London’s St. Thomas’s Hospital.
“I wish people could see how many COVID-19 and deaths there are in hospitals, and the sacrifices health workers make. This week alone has been so tough. Their ignorance hurts others. I really wish people would protect themselves. “
The UK is registering a massive wave of coronavirus cases as a highly contagious variant of the deadly bug tearing through the population.
On New Year’s Eve, Londoners were warned not to party outside in groups, and indoor events involving mixed groups from different households were banned, The Independent reported.
Lee’s post boomed and was shared and retweeted more than 24,000 times.
TV personality Piers Morgan was one to notice, tweet that he was cooking over Lee’s video. ‘If it’s a hoax, let’s take all those idiots to the covid ward without PPE. See how brave they feel when faced with the reality of people suffocating to death.
Lee, a Hong Kong resident who makes videos about his life in medicine, was overwhelmed by the response. “Thank you all for your support!” he tweeted on New Years Day. “Covid does not discriminate and we are all in this together.”