Lockdown At Woodside

<p>The year that changed the world. So said many commentators about 2020. Everyday living slowed communications shrank and societies crumbled as a sub-microscopic particle of life Coronavirus-19 swept through every nation cutting down vast swathes of humanity everywhere it went.</p><p> Political influence military might and economic power became irrelevant. The leaders in the fight against it were doctors in hospitals and scientists who toiled in bio-chemical research laboratories. The battle was for human survival and was fought not in the arenas of war but in hospitals private houses and care homes.</p><p>        Care homes for the elderly distilled the essence of this drama within themselves. In Woodside Lodge we see this fight for survival through the eyes of a young recruit carer Nicky Croft. The reader sees the organisation of a small care home its duties friendships activities entertainments and mutual dependence. Here are described the ailments typically affecting its members: the residents the experienced nurses the hard-working carers the chef the laundry worker assisted by a local GP and the local hospital. </p><p>       </p><p><br></p>