@kaylyheuven This is outrageous. I would revoke their invites if I were you lol they don’t deserve to attend your wedding. Sorry you’re going through this nonsense 💛
After sleeping on it, my approach will be
1. Wear a mask to protect my patients and as a visible symbol of defiance
2. Preferentially support businesses that choose to continue to only serve the vaccinated
3. Come election time, do everything in my power to get the UCP out
If your grocery store has bags of carrots, onions & potatoes without mold and shelves well stocked w Cat food, Kraft Dinner & Ketchup, thank a #VaccinatedTrucker
But the brute force of it right now is focused in healthcare
and
if you want them there for you in the future, be there for them now.
Get dose #3 so we don’t need to see you in hospital.
Be kind
AND
Be picky about who/how many optional contacts you have, because
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I’m super proud of all of our staff @AHS_media
last week I was amazed at how purely excellent so many people are in caring for our patients and each other.
But the strain is showing.
I feel it, see it, hear it. We can’t take this for granted.
EVERYONE is tired of this
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Are based on putting others first, doing extra, working late, lots of unpaid emotionally taxing effort…
but
they don’t and shouldn’t sign up to be ground down, losing themselves, losing joy in life, becoming numb, and detached from friends and family.
Tipping point.
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If this goes on too long, things will start slipping.
Superhuman effort isn’t sustainable.
People are REALLY TIRED.
HCW are head down, working hard but wondering what’s gonna give - the current surge, or them.
To be clear, people in health care sign up for professions that
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There is constant struggle to find beds for the new leukaemia or stroke patient, patient who needs a bone fixed, or major abdominal surgery. All hands available on deck and people are truly AWESOME in all of this, trying so hard to patch in where things are threadbare.
But
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to a nuisance in someone there for something else. Mostly the mid category. These people are sick on COVID isolation wards on oxygen, on medications, and there are many wards full of them. Some just improve slowly, others get complications. You still don’t want this.
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Every colleague I spoke with was juggling the highest workload in recent memory, with stretched systems, lean teams or no teams, late nights, early mornings, EXTREMELY high intensity of illnesses. Lots of COVID, ranging from life threatening, to bad but ok with support…
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Lot’s going on that is at some level appalling, and after a long week in an appallingly busy hospital,
let me tell you,
your health care professionals, teams, employees
DESERVE:
gratitude, respect, appreciation, snacks, sleep, more gratitude, and much more support.
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There are protests pretty much 365 days a year on parliament hill. I can’t recall any of them being condemned by both the Terry Fox Foundation and the Royal Canadian Legion.
Today 250,000 Canadians of all ages & backgrounds will receive a COVID vaccine.
Tomorrow, the same thing will happen. And again on Monday.
The small but loud group of protesters on Parliament Hill are not the story of this pandemic - the bigger story is one of remarkable unity.
Real freedom- is protecting the people- who are unable to protect themselves. Real freedom, is about community and tolerance and teamwork. Real freedom, is about having knowledge and the wisdom to wield it to help others.