It is everywhere in healthcare - I’m really sorry

Thank you for sharing!

Honestly I feel safer at the hairdressers than the doctors. How did we get here?

Healthcare is responsible for a lot of avoidable COVID death and injury.

Protecting my brain is my primary motivator for still masking

Our pug is very not fine with nail trims and I’ve tried everything including wrapping Saran Wrap covered in peanut butter around my head 😂 Now we just take him to the vet LOL

OMG. So fricking gross 😡

Does public health have any sort of plan to warn the public that each covid infection carries a risk of Long Covid, even if vaccinated? Even in kids? What’s the plan?

I totally agree. The only ways we’ll get concrete change in healthcare are lawsuits and maybe public pressure.

And even worse than that is that it’s been actively discouraged; some of the worst comments I’ve gotten for masking have come from other HCWs and from management who peg me as anxious (I’m not). Things are starting to shift though - super fucking slowly but it’s starting.

Hospitalizations are expected to require 6.3% of Canada's staffed hospital beds for three weeks (CIHI: average duration of COVID hospitalizations: www.cihi.ca/en/covid-19-...).

About 2.5% of people in Canada are infected and/or experiencing life activity-limiting long COVID this week.

The estimated cost of hospitalizations from this week's infections in Canada is $92.7M.