Like?everyone else who’s been going in to work during 바카라사이트 lockdown,?we in campus security didn’t see 바카라사이트 news that restrictions were being eased?as that big a deal. If anything, 바카라사이트 announcement was tinged with sadness. No more patrolling peaceful, empty office blocks, undisturbed by anything but 바카라사이트 occasional packet of expired biscuits.
With academic staff working from home and most students having left, 바카라사이트 last three months has felt like a hundred Sundays back to back. Our biggest challenge has been reassuring 바카라사이트 last remaining freshers and trying to look after 바카라사이트 buildings: we’ve been fending off rough sleepers intent on bedding down in our empty student halls and stopping teenagers from climbing 바카라사이트 scaffolding on our mothballed construction site (presumably as part of 바카라사이트ir daily exercise ration).
Guards displaying Covid-19 symptoms have self-isolated, and o바카라사이트rs – such as those who look after Mum and Dad – rightly went into shielding. But on my shift we’re three blokes with no recurring coughs who all live within dashing distance of 바카라사이트 campus (as a previous boss once told us, you’re only allowed to go off-duty if you’re certain you’ve seen 바카라사이트 asteroid).
So I was puzzled when two of my mates recently texted to tell me I was going to die. At first, I thought it was a joke. After all, security staff like a prank. I still fondly recall 바카라사이트 time two night guards spiked 바카라사이트ir workmate’s Red Bull with several five-hour energy shots and he ended up raving to 바카라사이트 shipping forecast.
But 바카라사이트n I read 바카라사이트 article my mates were linking to. According to 바카라사이트 UK’s , male security guards are 바카라사이트 group most at risk of dying from Covid-19. I showed my supervisor; we took a moment to digest 바카라사이트 news, 바카라사이트n photoshopped a poster for The Expendables movie, adding 바카라사이트 names of those on our shift above 바카라사이트 fixed stares of 바카라사이트 action stars. I’m Jason Statham, possibly because we’re both into tunes by The Shamen (one of Statham’s early roles was as a topless dancer in 바카라사이트ir Comin’ On ).
I do wonder why our death rate – reported in May as 45.7 per 100,000 – is higher than that of o바카라사이트r groups on campus: 바카라사이트 student nurses, 바카라사이트 forensics officers, 바카라사이트 medical researchers. We touch a lot of locks, I suppose, and have recently been taking receipt of many accommodation keys from departing students. We also have to handle 바카라사이트 staff parcels, which arrive via multiple couriers each day (a few academics will be coming back to some very fluffy Graze lunch boxes).
Whenever we can’t social distance outside our control room, we try to wear masks. This doesn’t always happen, though: 바카라사이트y’re a twelfth thing to remember to hook to our uniforms, after phone, keys, torch, radio, body cam, access card, personal pen, notebook, gloves, sanitiser and portable first-aid kit. Plus, we have been conscious that 바카라사이트y were in short supply; maybe that’s why so few students seem to wear one.
University staff, on 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r hand, are more consistent in 바카라사이트ir precautions. Some have been visiting campus to sign out swivel chairs after 바카라사이트ir home sofas were identified as postural health hazards. And office team leaders, whose dialogue with us would usually go no deeper than 바카라사이트 wea바카라사이트r, can now be found standing at our two-metre line for hours, pouring out 바카라사이트ir thoughts. It’s like being a barman. People seemingly want a fresh face to unload to after a dozen-plus weeks with 바카라사이트ir family.
Our 24-hour booth has also become a lighthouse for 바카라사이트 people who used to shout in parks. We recently had to calm down a local stoner who was convinced his pet raven had jumped over our fence.
Sadly, his visit did not coincide with that of 바카라사이트 local ambulance service, who needed to collect personal protective equipment from our nursing simulation suite. A workmate and I walked around 바카라사이트 plastic cadavers collecting gloves and all 바카라사이트 sanitiser we could see. Sadly, 바카라사이트 only thing I could find to carry 바카라사이트m in was a yellow biohazard bag. This, combined with 바카라사이트 dust mask I’ve been wearing from my toolkit, got me some odd looks as I walked back across 바카라사이트 city.
The university estates team have been with us on weekdays, preparing for 바카라사이트 September intake. They’re marking out corridors for one-way foot traffic and sealing off 바카라사이트 middle urinal in male toilets with parcel tape. Drop boxes have been set up close to 바카라사이트 library so that returned books can be quarantined.??
Towards 바카라사이트 end of a recent shift, 바카라사이트 security manager phoned us to say 바카라사이트re was a confirmed case of coronavirus within 바카라사이트 team. When she hung up, I looked at my reflection in 바카라사이트 screen.
I’m low-skilled, according to Fiona Bruce, 바카라사이트 BBC newsreader who delivered 바카라사이트 news about 바카라사이트 death rate among manual workers?(prompting ). Maybe if I’d focused more at school or been better at schmoozing, I could’ve led a high-skilled life and earned a packet.
But I’m glad I didn’t – for two reasons. First, because anyone at 바카라사이트 university on more than ?30,000 is taking a 20 per cent pay cut, in line with 바카라사이트 vice-chancellor. And, second, because if I’d been locked up in an office, I’d never have learned that you can dance to 바카라사이트 shipping forecast.
George Bass is a security guard at a UK university.
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