🧵 I can’t cry as easily as I used to in former times. Watching our news footage of the fires in the south-west, the tears just streamed down my face.
The persistence of the #firefighters and #rescue workers, often followed by trauma that will last a lifetime. How they are left in the lurch by a government that has cut back on everything for years and failed to act.
Just like during the pandemic. We haven’t learnt anything from the fact that, at some point, the rescuers themselves need to be
Petra van Cronenburg
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