A tired doctor from the United Kingdom left the hospital where he spent New Year’s Eve treating patients with COVID-19 and went into a crowd of maskless protesters shouting “COVID is a hoax.”
“I’m disgusted, but mostly heartbroken,” Matthew Lee has tweeted along with a video shot hundreds of protesters in front of St Thomas Hospital in London.
“I wish people could see the amount of COVID-19 and the deaths in hospitals and the sacrifices that health workers make. Only this week has been so hard. Their ignorance hurts others. I really wish the people stay safe ”.
The UK is recording a huge increase in coronavirus cases as a highly contagious variant of the fatal error that plagues the population.
On New Year’s Eve, Londoners were warned not to party in groups outside and events covered with mixed groups from different homes were banned, The Independent reported.
Lee’s post took off, shared, and retweeted more than 24,000 times.
The television personality Piers Morgan was one of those he set his sights on tweeting this it was “boiling” over Lee’s video. “If it’s a hoax, we bring all these idiots inside the empty room without PPE. Look at how brave they feel in the face of the reality of people drowning to death.
Lee, a Hong Kong native who makes videos about his life in medicine, was overwhelmed by the response. “Thank you all for your support!” he tweeted on New Year’s Day. “Covid doesn’t discriminate and we’re all together on that.”