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No Vaccine? No Problem At Least As Long As You’re Taking Care of Sick People
I really don’t care what side you come down on when it comes to the Covid jab, that’s not really the point, at least insofar as this goes. This is really more a rant about common sense, or a lack thereof.
Welcome to Ontario, or as I’m now calling it, Wacky Land. Since October 22, anyone who has not been double vaxxed cannot eat inside a restaurant, have a drink in a bar, go to the gym, the casino or even the movie theatre. Okay, fine. Them’s the rules.
But, you know what an unvaccinated person can do? They can work in healthcare, with you know, sick, vulnerable and compromised people. Wait, what? Yeah, you read that right. If you work in a nursing home, you have to have had the jab, but if you work at the hospital, you don’t. Seems to me a strange line to draw.
How does any of this make any sense? It doesn’t. Well, unless you look at it through a larger, political lens. An election is looming and suddenly, our fearless leader is backing off on vaccine requirements, but just for health care workers (while also promising to hike the minimum wage to $15 per hour). The inconsistency of the province’s approach to Covid and emerging from the havoc it wreaked is just mind-boggling! But hey, what’s a few lives when there’s an election to win, eh?
Well, welcome to Wacky Land, where nothing makes sense and you’re safer at the movies than you are at the hospital (at least from Covid).
