COVID-19

Ted Doleman | Jan 27, 2021

“They might not have died because of COVID,” said Dr. Samir Sinha, the director of geriatrics at Mount Sinai hospital in Toronto. “But they die because of starvation and dehydration.”

Prior to this pandemic we rarely heard about the 1918 Influenza pandemic, many scholars have said this was because people were ashamed of their behaviour. At what point does this become an emergency, at what point will the military be called in, at what point does this become unacceptable? Just to be clear, putting people in places where they catch plagues, starve and die of dehydration should not have the word “care” and “home” in them. In the past, places where this happened, they had the words “concentration” and “camp” with their names when history is written. When you look at the actions of all your elected representatives, regardless of level of government, and this isn’t something they are trying to solve then focus your votes and donation accordingly. We need the military now, that is in our control. We need inspection, and fines, and penalties for CEOs involved in this disaster as that is in our control. When Dr. Amit Arya is on the news representing 215 physicians calling for intervention and points out one person an hour is dying in care homes in Ontario how can we stay silent? We have no control when the vaccines will come, we can staff and care for those most at risk just by asking for help as all it takes is our Premier to ask for help. Are we, or is he, too proud to save their lives and will we be too ashamed to talk about what happened?

Ted Doleman