Doomed

When this pandemic hit us over a year ago, despite having many months to prepare for the inevitable, our provincial leadership was scrambling to adopt measures and protocols to limit the spread of the virus. After floundering for weeks while we watched the virus spread, the government finally acted. Hospital visitation was curtailed, senior care facilities were locked down, and schools were closed along with non-essential businesses.

Fast forward a year. 

Today, while we battle the third and most intense wave of the pandemic, hospital visitation is curtailed, senior care facilities are locked down, but schools are wide open along with most non-essential businesses. Despite our healthcare system being stressed to the max and the pandemic raging worse than ever, feel free to get your tattoos finished and your hair styled, but don’t even think about trying to get your 90 year old father’s 85 year old sister in for a visit with him one more time before his dementia robs him of his final memories of her.

Priorities. We sure have them straight. If it is not about my wallet, it does not rate in this province.

 

“We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.” — Iris Murdoch (1919 - 1999)