From this:
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To this:
Now about that:
Already there are calls for the government - the same one that launched Canada into the COVID-19 mess that it is in now - to take over nursing homes (as if that would help here: One of Canada's largest long-term care operators is owned by a federal Crown corporation) but that misses the larger moral point and that is this: we have devalued all human life and paid only the merest lip service to the compassion we ourselves are supposed to possess. We act as though kicking the can down the road and outsourcing the care we are supposed to have for one another supplants for actual concern.
The universe does not forget what we do here today.
(Merci)
“There were (two) patients who were dead in their beds,” the source added. “Their deaths had not been recognized. There were patients who had fallen on the floor. There were patients who hadn’t had any basic care for a number of days, diapers that hadn’t been changed for three or four days, excrement that was covering their skin and patients who hadn’t been fed.
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Mary Carr of Pinecrest Nursing Home says there have been no changes at the 65-bed facility since her last update on Friday. Since an outbreak was declared on March 20, the facility has endured the loss of 28 residents due to COVID-19 complications. A spouse of a resident also died due to COVID-19, according to the Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit.
To this:
Military personnel sent to nursing homes in Ontario have observed shocking conditions, including “blatant disregard” for infection control measures, mistreatment of residents and a level of care described as “horrible,” according to documents obtained by Global News.
Canadian Armed Forces teams deployed to five of the province’s worst-hit long-term care homes to help control COVID-19 have raised concerns about each of the facilities, describing the care as ranging from below best practices to “borderline abusive, if not abusive” and worse, the documents show. ...
The soldiers reported witnessing cockroaches, flies, rotten food, as well as residents left in soiled diapers or crying out for help for lengthy periods, the documents allege. At one facility, residents had not been bathed in weeks, they said.
Staff at a Brampton nursing home allegedly recorded a Taylor Swift Dance Video showing them dancing through the facility, passing between areas deemed infected with COVID-19 and area that were uninfected without wearing any protective equipment, the documents claimed. ...
The report released by the Ontario government gave failing grades to the Hawthorne and Eatonville care homes for improper Infection Prevention and Control measures as recently as May 24.
Now about that:
Military sources
tell Global News that the letter warning Minister @BillBlair's
office was sent May 14th. I have a copy of the letter dated May 14th.
Public Safety has just called me to say they did not receive a copy
until May 22nd. Have asked for date on their
letter...
— Mercedes Stephenson (@MercedesGlobal)
May
26, 2020
Already there are calls for the government - the same one that launched Canada into the COVID-19 mess that it is in now - to take over nursing homes (as if that would help here: One of Canada's largest long-term care operators is owned by a federal Crown corporation) but that misses the larger moral point and that is this: we have devalued all human life and paid only the merest lip service to the compassion we ourselves are supposed to possess. We act as though kicking the can down the road and outsourcing the care we are supposed to have for one another supplants for actual concern.
The universe does not forget what we do here today.
(Merci)
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