Bouquets of flowers line the sidewalk outside long-term care homes in many communities. When people with underlying morbidities are concentrated in retirement or long-term-care homes, all it takes is one infection to precipitate an outbreak. Second, we can lobby Premier Ford to prevent caregivers from working part-time in three or four different long-term-care homes. Do we want to devote so few resources to Canada’s seniors that we deprive them of their well-being and dignity? Flowers and placards and notes and cards help the survivors locked in retirement and long-term homes hang on.

Source: thestar April 14, 2020 21:00 UTC