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Originally Posted by Sirtel
That's very sad. Were veterinary services really deemed non-essential in the UK? No vet clinics were closed here. I remember feeling briefly panicked in the spring of 2020 when I thought that perhaps they will be closed (I had 3 cats at the time, two of them with chronic illnesses), but they weren't.
One of my cats died a year later, in March 2021, but Covid had nothing to do with it.
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Yes, all the vets in my city - Birmingham UK - were closed. Their policy was "emergency cases only" but they wouldn't define what an emergency was, so I thought they meant things like Road Traffic Accidents where the animal was in imminent threat of death. Cydric was very ill, but I didn't know how ill and couldn't get a diagnosis.
They did telephone consultations, which were useless. I blame their policy for his death and told them so on social media. During subsequent lockdowns local vets would see pets but their humans would have to wait outside and they began defining 'routine' work as vaccinations, neutering, etc which they were still not doing. If they'd said this during the first lockdown, he might still be alive.
GPs were as bad. Many of them treated the pandemic as an excuse for an extended holiday.