johnm wrote:Two weeks after the schools go back cases are on the rise again, university students are also back and efforts being made to get them vaccinated.
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The GP syndicate vaccination centre where we are volunteer marshals is still doing some 'walk-in' sessions for 1st and 2nd Pfizers for anyone, but expecting many to be recentish arrivals in town for the local colleges and boarding schools, and I guess hirers of new graduates. Other sessions are only for registered patients of the GPs, for boosters (at least 6 months after 2nd) and 'flu, by invitation to appointments.
Meanwhile, this has been posted on a Canadian Facebook group, from someone in Alberta, the Canadian centre of antivaxxers and Covid deniers:
"I've spent the past 3 days in ICU with my Dad. He is on a unit with 22 beds and is the ONLY patient here without Covid. There are 21 UNVACCINATED people (I asked) of all ages here taking up space and ABUSING the staff - announcing that Covid isn't real, or screaming at doctors, after they have saved their life, saying they would have survived without treatment.
We were losing my Dad. We were told he wasn't going to make it. My family wanted to come and be with him, but only two of us were allowed. MY FAMILY WHO DID EVERYTHING RIGHT was denied seeing him because off ALL of the unvaccinated who are crashing our healthcare system. My Mom and I came back the next day and waited 4 HOURS before we even set eyes on his nurse. 4 HOURS because she was busy trying to gown up and intubate her other patient who continued to deny the reality of her situation. They eventually had to tell her to accept the ventilator or she will not be allowed back in the ICU.
I met a lady in the lobby today whose 38 year old son had a heart attack and needed to be airlifted here. They have him in a room with a BABY MONITOR so the nurses can see him because there are no beds and the unvaccinated have taken over the ICUs. I truly hope the new triage system comes into play and that maybe the unvaccinated (by choice) are denied care.
I walk the hallway to my Dad's room and look at these people who are all alone on ventilators. They look SO awful. It's so sad, and yet so preventable.
If you're not vaccinated, you are a fool. Plain and simple. You don't want to put this "trial" drug into your body? Well, guess what? When you are dying in the Covid ward, they give you a TRIAL drug to help you live. Are you going to tell them not to give you that either? Fool.
These doctors and nurses were so happy to have my Mom and I here. People who believe in the science. Who support and praise them for their work instead of abuse them.
This unit has been a MAD HOUSE. There are no words that will ever explain the heroes who walk these halls. The ones who show compassion for these people who, I feel, no longer deserve it. They are miracle workers and they are BURNT OUT.
These same miracle workers brought my Dad back to us when we thought we would be saying goodbye. They gave us time we thought we would be denied. For that I'm eternally grateful.
Too many people who did the RIGHT thing are being denied proper care right now. This needs to stop.
Don't be a fool.
Please feel free to share."