This week, the hospital in Sturgeon Falls, Ontario issued this notice to everyone in the community. “Due to an increase in COVID-19 cases, visitors will not be permitted”. Not some visitors. All visitors are now prohibited.
They aren’t the only hospital. Many are resorting back to the same tactics as 2022, 2021 and 2020. Limiting visitors anytime there is an uptake in respiratory viruses circulating. They act like this is normal. Most people accept these rules and act like we have always done this. But these rules should not be accepted as normal or acceptable.
Before 2020, hospital never prevented visitors. Even during the worst outbreaks... The hospitals never stopped visitations. They simply recommended visitors postpone their visits if they were sick. They never even contemplated the idea of asking (let alone forcing) people to wear masks around their loved-ones.
But here we are in 2023. After “two weeks to flatten the curve”, a lockdown, school closure, another lockdown, society destroying vaccine mandates, another lockdown, more school closures we are resorting back to the same tactics.
Despite the fact that everyone has had the chance to get up to six mRNA COVID shots by now and are allowed to wear as many face masks as they choose*, we're going to keep acting like respiratory virus season requires draconian rules again. (more...)
"Letting People Die Alone" Season Begins
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