It should never happen again!

COVID-19 was among the worst diseases to hit Canada in the past 100 years or more. In my opinion, it was handled worse than any previous disease. I won’t argue that vaccines were wrong, although there is a lot of evidence that the benefits of vaccines were highly over-promoted. I would daresay that vaccines should not have been compulsory and there are those who will vehemently disagree with me. It’s just that, in general terms, I am very wary of anything being compulsory. There were people who didn’t get vaccinated who died from C-19 but there were a lot of people who didn’t get vaccinated who didn’t even get sick. There were people who had two, three or four vaccine shots and they got C-19 and some of them died.

All that said, my biggest complaint is the absurd way sick people were handled, especially those in hospitals and care homes. There were many, many people who were desperately sick and many who died, who were denied the comfort and care of loved ones in their last days. Think about how absurd this was. A person is sick and dying in care and some crazy rules about restricting loved ones was supposed to protect whom? A loved one not being allowed to come in and visit was somehow supposed to protect the sick person. How was that supposed to work?

Think about it. The care home and hospital workers all came to work, did their job, albeit under very tough conditions, and then went home. The workers lived with their families who, to some extent, were out and about in the community, presumably had close contact with spouses and kids and came back to work the next day. Like that wasn’t supposed to spread C-19? And yet,

Rita Friesen