It was almost a year ago that we noted “Pig farmers shower as they enter & exit their barns. Health care workers who care for my Grandma, do not.”
Of the 18,975 people who have died in Canada from COVID-19, I’ve linked 13,803 deaths to 1422 residential facilities. That is an increase of 55 deaths at 3 more facilities than last night, despite sketchy data from Ontario/nothing from BC.
That’s more than 7 out of every 10 Covid related deaths. Clearly the fault of mask deniers and minor hockey.
Loreto provides the breakdowns in this spreadsheet. Her focus is clearly private vs public, instead of where it ought to be: how these deaths might have been mitigated by mandating strict biosecurity measures to prevent entry of the virus into nursing homes and other high risk industries in the first place.
But because governments fear the ire of powerful health care unions (and the lazy, leftist Karens in media), they bury the incriminating evidence in generalized death counts, while redirecting blame at a greater community mostly powerless to stop them.
h/t RP
This Wuhan horror show is entirely the fault of government. They blew it.
Get ready for perhaps the final act.
https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/371/bmj.m4037.full.pdf
Boomers really piss me off. I used to be on their side but wuflu is the last straw. This whole thing is to save the boomers. What do they do to repay us?
Well I see clear signs of boomers breaking the rules all over the place. We’ve shut down our lives for you scumbags and in the final act of your selfishness you break the rules?
Millenials were right about the boo.er problem.
Boomers didn’t do a thing at all to you.
Shift your blame where it actually belongs to our governments.
Why is are country not prepared at all?
Government corruption to go all in on globalization with a multitude of different exemptions for different companies.
You have never been fortunate to feel true freedom of extremely limited laws.
Today we have hundreds of more laws and restrictions than in earlier years.
And EVERYONE IS HAPPY!!! Before 1985.
Then politics started in everywhere.
Nope this is the final selfish act of the worst generation in history. The boomers brought about the progressive destruction of western civilization. That’s the truth. We should open up everything and put the boomers in prisons.
Suck MY boomer, troll.
James is right. I am older than the boomers and the boomers were/are the liberal assholes who voted for the crap that is now canada.
I’m a boomer and I never voted for any of it.
Very true.
Well then, molon labe, boys. You want to tar my entire generation with the same brush, suggest mass imprisonment? Make your move.
This board just took a rapid turn for the worse.
James and vowg, stop lumping and blaming all boomers for this shit mess. I’m a boomer and definitely did not vote for Turdeau.
Well young James, go check the hospitalization numbers and get back to me if any Gen Xers and Milleniums are showing up to be hospitalized when their lungs start gurgling?
You hit on the problem, young James- there are people who deliberately won’t take precautions and the virus is being spread regardless of masks or lockdowns.
I owe it to the front line healthcare workers to do my part and stay out of the hospitals and not infect others. That’s me. I’m of a generation that believes in social responsibility.
Really? The whole thing is a scam based on faulty RT-PCR testing. Many, many non infecteous false positives that you fell for. You don’t believe in social responsibility because if you did, you wouldn’t be spewing falsehoods.
As misguided as the Statist’s response has been, it’s on account of the deniers who refuse to take the simplest precautions cuz its all “a scam” that the vast majority find themselves being compelled go along with the statist dictates.
A positive PCR test doesn’t get you admitted to a hospital. People aren’t being forced to show up at ER at gunpoint. And those that show up at ER aren’t admitted unless they are showing severe symptoms. Otherwise they are sent home.
Go head down to your hospital and check out all the volunteers, mostly senior boomers, helping out and making things run smoothly. Out of respect and appreciation, it’s not asking too much for people to take some simple precautions and avoid being hospitalized. But then there are the deniers.
@Just Saying:
What a load of virtue signalling BS. Social responsibility! What nonsense!!
There are very few front line healthcare workers that died (courtesy of the spreadsheet) because COVID is not deadly in healthy people.
Masks, distancing and lock downs are illegal in that the corrupt bureaucrats and politicians have never provided actual data to justify that these actions work. They say there is evidence but do not produce it while mountains of data pile up exposing these actions as over reach and fraudulent. Florida is wide open, has a very high senior citizen population and is miles behind California, New York and New Jersey in “cases” and deaths.
They were imposed by unelected bureaucrats and enforced by unelected bureaucrats. It’s tyranny. The government failed to protect those who are vulnerable. Every CMO across the country should be fired, they are just taking orders from the UN, not looking after the people who hired them and pay them an exorbitant ~$450K a year. They are not earning it.
HCQ and other cheap drugs were banished. The vaunted Lancet had to retract their “study” claiming HCQ causes heart trouble and were outed as liars. It was always about vaccines that appear to do nothing except cost taxpayers $Billions.
Your part if you are healthy is to go to work, look after your family, live your life and if you get sick, stay home.
The government should have supplied every household with the cheap antigen quicktest that is modeled after a pregnancy test. It will tell you in 15 minutes if you are contagious now. The fake PCR tests being used only tell you if you have been exposed to any coronavirus, a cold or any flu. It’s fake and designed to drive up positives to instill fear in the public. One hour after Biden was inaugurated, the WHO came out recommending the cycle rates on PCR tests be lowered. This will cause the case count to plummet. All will hail Biden as the savior.
If you can adjust the positive hits for a disease, it’s a fake pandemic. COVID is a flu. over 99.9+% survive.
Just sick of the nonsense and the people who support it.
All those boomers b 47 to 62 work at long term care facilities, partying and hugging sure masks protect them as the slaughter in care homes continues into a second wave? You couldn’t be more wrong if you tried. Ball dropped big time. Typical statists who impose universal measures while failing to micromanage where required which is cleaning up care facilities and stopping staff from infecting patients. Quarantine the healthy pretending effectiveness as “cases” soar while adult children spread covid, some killing seniors under their care. Hyperbole? Not much. Leadership is beyond these peons who prefer to pontificate and rule while doubling down on futility with precisely wrong measures and edicts, wholly unfamiliar by ignorance how to be approximately right.
Almost everything I used to do and work at is now illegal as now I need permits and licenses and updated training and equipment with expire dates on safety equipment. And yet some companies get special permits or exemptions that I can’t afford to get or use immigrants that are exempt. Just depends on the government deals they have.
47 through about 60 year olds are Gen-X, not boomers. Boomers were born in the mid to late 40’s, not the 70s and 80s.
I was referring to Boomers’ range of years of birth, generally thought somewhere between 1947 and 1962.
But no, 60 year olds are not Gen-Xers, or even Echoes, the children of boomers.
The youngest boomers are still under 60. Do the math, born in 1947, aged 14 in 1961.
So no, not Gen-X, or very, very few, if any. You’re welcome.
That makes much more sense, I was wondering where what I had read as ages could have come from.
I always thought that the Boomers end date was being born in the mid 1950s. Usually the groupings run about a decade in length.
James, you can be very sure that all the hysteria and insanity will not save one single life, boomer or otherwise. I defy anyone to tell me just whose life their wearing a mask saved?
James, agree with you except for one thing. We should all be breaking the “rules”.
Flick off, James, uninformed boomer-hater. The people in charge today are not boomers (Trudeau is Gen X and Bidon is “silent generation”).
The folks dying from the China virus are from the silent generation who fought for freedom in WW11.
We boomers are now age 57-74. Many of us are retired, but are neither dying from nor being protected from covid. Most of us are staying home, not breaking whatever rules you think are important. When I go out for groceries, the folks I see are all under 50. I follow all the rules which I think are mostly useless.
Take your juvenile rage somewhere else. We had hard times in our youth as well, facing uncontrolled inflation, wage and price controls (Thank you Trudeau1), stupid wars etc. If you have problems, go fix them.
L , well said. +++
Yes, but James has to ask about the white boomers. Isn’t their white supremacy the chief superspreader of covid?
Oh yes, this is definitely f******g sarcasm.
The ignorance of some and their addled so-called thinking makes me wonder how they survive reality or hold down a job.
They died in vain.
Boomers are that way because the Greatest Generation (“GG”) was determined that no one would have to do what they did. That is, suffer through the Great Depression and the Second World War. The GG was determined that the Boomers would enjoy a much better life than they did.
The booming economy helped as the GG could afford to spoil the Boomers into never having to want. Technology went into overdrive. What seemed impossible prior to 1940 became reality. Instant meals, fast-food, television and the cornucopia of what you could acquire was never empty.
Unfortunately, spoiling resulted in the hippies. Certain unscrupulous members of the GG were also still praising Marx and Lenin (they dropped Hitler because of the Holocaust and Mussolini because he tied his horse to Hitler’s wagon). The Marxists got into politics, government and education. They brought in “free” stuff and expensive taxpayer funded entitlements to which the Boomers almost all took advantage of. It doesn’t mean all Boomers are Marxists scrambling to get their snout in the trough. Some were still raised with the ethic most of the GG were brought up with.
But to answer your question, “What did they do to repay us?” Firstly, they raised you either as a parent or a grandparent. My parents and grandparents are long since gone. It would be nice, from time to time, to bounce ideas off of them. But, I digress; it wasn’t the Boomers who started the downfall, it was the bad apples in the GG that put the wheels into motion with the Boomers as their proxies.
Wow, that sure brought me back. Dad had a fairly large poultry farm back in my yoot when the “Newcastle virus” was making the rounds.
Instead of chores you’d think I was suiting up to perform surgery.
As the resident flight director I feel compelled – Two incoming flights from Tokyo arriving in Vancouver Int’l airport in about an hour or so and three inbounds from China just the other day. But Marc Garneau is casually chatting to Rosemary Barton about invoking the Emergency War Measures Act.
Strike “Emergency” from the above comment.
Years ago I commented to a CFIA bureaucrat that we take more steps to protect our food animals than people. That was the only part of the conversation we didn’t argue.
What kind of doctor wants to work for the government?
It’s a question I’ve asked a lot these past months.
A very poorly trained one who can’t cut it on the open market. There are many examples of incompetence gravitating to government and the military.
The sort Weird Al Yankovic sang about?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=notKtAgfwDA (Like a Surgeon)
One looking to enrich himself without lifting a finger.
In canadah, pretty much EVERY doctor works for the government (or at least bills the government health system and so is beholden to it). But I take your point there is a cadre of 9-to-5ers in the federal and provincial governments who believe the plebs must be herded to suit their political desires.
As if it was not immediately apparent this article just confirms that Public Health Canaduh is a shit-show, populated by government “managers” with zero expertise.
https://www.sachinews.com/en/story/600b871cabb1468d70d5dfb2/internal-audit-lays-bare-problems-at-public-health-agency-of-canada
Bureaucrat – strike one.
Public sector union member – strike two.
Doctor – strike three.
Three strikes and you’re an insufferable asshole.
I might be able to give you some insight into that question, Kate, as I was a professional Industrial/Organizational psychologist with the federal government. I met doctors/nurses in Health Canada and in various Agri-food departments, but only tested a few for executive roles. My hypothesis is that people who join the public service have very different personalities (and interests) than you do. No wonder they are hard to understand!
We had one of those staff boondoggle “PD” days, orchestrated by some irresponsible, over-promoted high-level female executive, where everyone in my department took the older version now of the Myers-Briggs personality test. As a well-trained scientist from U of Calgary, I was astounded to see the results of that test. The Myers-Briggs test is not bad, psychometrically, but most registered psychologists do not use it. That said, the results from my government department were astounding to me.
https://www.myersbriggs.org/my-mbti-personality-type/mbti-basics/the-16-mbti-types.htm
Almost all, like 85%, of my colleagues were identified as ISTJ. I was different, and I knew it before the tests anyway, and I got to do some cool things because I was more extraverted and strategic. You most likely do not have that personality profile either, as you would likely have an “NT” in the second and third traits.
“ISTJ
Quiet, serious, earn success by thoroughness and dependability. Practical, matter-of-fact, realistic, and responsible. Decide logically what should be done and work toward it steadily, regardless of distractions. Take pleasure in making everything orderly and organized – their work, their home, their life. Value traditions and loyalty.”
Isn’t it about time to charge Dr.’s Fauxci and Birx with malpractice? Perhaps in that way, the American people can nick some of their fat government salaries off em?
What kind of doctor wants to work for the government?
The kind of doctor that wants to take lives rather than saving lives. In other words butcher doctors.
There are two reasons we are in crisis in Canada.
1) Our ability to handle ICU and a rush of sick people is nonexistent. Talk about “just in time” stocking of groceries? We have “just in time” socialized medicine that is bureaucratically hobbled and unable to gear up or down in the way that would be expected to handle a pandemic. We have had ERs and ICU and hospital beds overwhelmed every year during flu season for as long as I can recall. So it was to be expected that a “bad flu” would wipe us right out.
2) We don’t provide proper care to our fragile elderly so they all got exposed in their homes and for the most part they are the ones who ended up taking up ICU and hospital beds.
If we had had either of those two properly administered and sized we would have no need to destroy our economy and lock everyone down.
Justin. There is no crunch at 99 % of all ICUs in Canada. There is no need for what we are doing to destroy people’s lives and businesses. The total death toll, and that is questionable, represents 24 days of all deaths based on stats can’s average daily death toll, from all causes, which is 787 deaths per day. Someone needs to get their freaking head out of their arse and stop the insanity. THERE IS NO CRISIS.
Justin – read an interesting commentary the other day. Back in the day – as during the Spanish flu – there were no long-term-care homes. Granny and Grandad were cared for at home, often by a seriously overworked daughter or daughter-in-law. In addition, conditions such as diabetes were untreatable (Banting, Best, & Macleod discovered insulin in 1921 but it took some years before it became available as a treatment), so those with “co-morbidities” just died. So – tragic as it is for us to lose so many seniors, they were alive only because modern medicine has kept them going. We now think of having a lot of senior seniors as being normal, but that is a recent phenomenon.
That being said, every death is a loss to the loved ones left behind. Mum left us a month after her 99th birthday and, though we knew she was ready to go, we all felt it was too soon.
Jeebus, have a boo at the stats for just Alberta: https://www.alberta.ca/stats/covid-19-alberta-statistics.htm
We have 8000+ beds available and some 1000+ ICU. What’s being used? As of Friday 652 beds and 111 ICU. Province wide. Yeah, we’re overwhelmed. I’ve posted here all last year on my personal observations at Foothills in Calgary. For 6-7 months the place was like a tomb, surgeries cancelled, yada, yada, yada. I had surgery in early November. Another I know had surgery in October. All while they quarantined some folks a couple of floors above over COVID. A couple died, yet we still fly in folks from overseas to infect us. Free health care, see? We just flew in a bunch from Haiti this week….refugees. The whole plane(s) was/were infected. It was in the news. Missed it?
What’s a “case”? Had your “case” test? I have yet to be tested for COVID, with the crappy COVID test since February going to the hospital on a regular basis. I wear the stupid mask that does doodley squat protecting anyone, especially out side in the fresh air and sunshine. On US TV, you get ads for vitamin C, D3 and Zn. Canada…..silence. Don’t get me started on on “vaccines”. We have yet to vaccinate for the common cold…a “corona” virus. Really, they mutate too fast. There were 4 mutations by the time COVID exited China, last February.
All those old folks in the old folks homes, anyone speculating how they got infected in first place? Bueller? They haven’t learned a thing since the beginning. As an Old Folk, you wouldn’t catch me in one….ever. Quarantine them and let society carry on.
JB We have never had to lock anyone down, they just imposed it on orders from the WHO and fellow comrades across the world. That’s why every CMO needs to be fired.
It’s racist, you see, to suggest that the Third World simians recruited to work in the nursing homes for dirt cheap have worse hygiene than dogs and pigs.
(The nursing home racket depends on uncontrolled Third World immigration. Karen cannot afford to pay Canadians a living wage to look after her senile, bedridden mother-in-law. And she has no intention of quitting her undemanding government job to devote herself full-time to changing the old cow’s diapers.)
So is there also a breakdown of the demographics of the 5000 or so who died that weren’t in long term care? It would be interesting to complete the picture.
At least in Ontario, we’ve been told that demographic groups will not be categorized/publicized because racist WP will attack the sick… Can’t make it up.
Modern medicine could learn a bit from studying the past.
In the olden days when communicable disease broke out that had no cure, they quarantined the sick not the healthy,
Here are 2 examples. In the 1800’s when people contracted Leprosy they quarantined those affected to Molokai in the Hawaiin Islands. They didn’t lock down the remaining population. I remember this being taught to me in my early grades in the 1950’s. Look up Father Damien the Father of Lepers.
Back in 1950’s before the Salk Polio vaccine, my sister contracted Polio, Once determined, we were all quarantined into our house and not allowed to leave until my sister was diagnosed recovered. My mother, and 4 other siblings were house bound. That was it. We were fortunate to not catch it , I was really small at the time and I remember my sister was bedridden alone in her room and my mom bought her food. We were not allowed in.
My dad found out that the house was quarantined while he was working and was not allowed to go home, He had a small business so he slept on a cot at his shop and ate at restaurants until the quarantine was lifted.
In this Woke age it seems we quarantine all the healthy people at great damage to the economy and general peoples well being. in actual fact when the virus was detected at care homes, the home should have been locked down to everyone including the staff and no one allowed to leave or visit until the virus ran it’s course.
If someone at an infected Care Home needs hospital care, then one hospital should have been declared a Covid hospital and no other patients allowed in, ( Doctors and Nurses with proper PPE being the exception) and they should remain quarantined at the Covid hospital until their week or 10 day shift was complete and then they would have to be quarantined for 14 days at home or other suitable facility before they are allowed to engage with the general public again..)
History can teach us a lot, but then again schools don’t teach history anymore
Fully agreed.
Not everyone with, or close to someone with, polio was quarantined. My dad talked about polio in the community when he was in his mid to late teens.
The neighbour come down with polio but was still determined to get the spring work done. He was found dead beside the tractor when he did not return home for supper.
Shortly after, as the custom was, his coffin was set up in the kitchen of the neighbour’s house so every could pay their last respects before the funeral. No one in the remaining family, anyone visiting the house or anyone attending the funeral came down with polio afterwards.
// how these deaths might have been mitigated by mandating strict biosecurity measures to prevent entry of the virus into nursing homes and other high risk industries in the first place. //
Sure. Minimum wage caretakers working in several crowded facilities to eke out a living, and not enough of them to get food distributed, never mind all the other tasks.
&!@$!
In mid-December, finally, it was disclosed in BC, that all but 2 deaths in BC were LTC residents.
ALL BUT TWO.
Not that Bonnie Nazi or Comrades Forger or Whoregan, would ever tell the whole truth, that wouldn’t be as kind as blowing hot air up the sheep’s asses all the time, nor keeping them in a state of irrational fear.
The deaths through the latest wave have also been overwhelmingly from LTC homes, the trend is solid and overwhelming. And of course, being a socialist government, blames the LTC employers, as the workers tend to work multiple homes. Certainly not their own lack of policy and security reforms that are sadly lacking, by ignorance or choice.
It has everything to do with government policy, more rigid bio-hazard rules and requirements (that are non-existent) or extended testing of same workers (again, an easy government policy implementation, that is non-existent).
Governments across the country have known from the beginning that the LTCs are the most vulnerable populations, it’s not even close. Dealing correctly with it has ranged from , mediocre to non-existent. Almost as if the governments goal was to kill off the old and indigent, after all, there s going to be a lot more of them coming.
Can I see the citation for this? I would definitely want to share it. This is the crux of the matter of statists’ covid failure imo.
They threw out the book on epidemiology, on kids, on asymptomatics, telling us piece of cloth over our faces was protective.
Idiotic, political top down measures failed for obvious reasons, non compliance and pathetic science, while long term care facilities weren’t deal with. With no visitors, how were they infected? By staff, of course (some poor ventilation and hygiene).
Why wasn’t that dealt with? Weren’t we told all we had to do was lock down and mask for two weeks, then two months, maybe two years? Why didn’t that work in these facilities, where the consequence of error was most acute but with the most control?
This is a travesty, an abject failure of government where accountability was crucial. Like gun control, they went after the law-abiders while the “non-compliant” ran wild, dodging complaints, bylaw officers and fines, including long term care workers.
Unbelievable negligence, so lethal. Why do the people accept these co-opted statists who exist to sustain themsleves?
So, I think I will stand corrected somewhat, as it was more likely all but 2 deaths were over age 75.
Just found an article earlier this month on the ceeb, stating 63% of deaths were in the LTCs. But, and this is real interesting, it is very difficult to find BC deaths by demographic group, on a DDG search. On the official BCGOV COVID page, no such data exists, it’s all cases, cases, cases. Why disclose data that is real, that shows the truly at risk group, and, the ONLY at risk group.
From all places, an obscure online news site, the Langley Advance Times (Black Press), its states as of Jan 21st, that the median age of BC deaths is 86. 86.
No deaths under age 30. Four deaths between 30-30. 90% of deaths over age 70. One has to dig really deep to find the actual death statistics, thousands of cases are much more dramatic to put irrational fear into people, than deaths that are far less.
37 deaths under age 60. That’s out of 50,524 cases in that demo. 0.07% death rate under age 60. Data as of Jan 15th. The data is very well buried……
The governments actions are beyond criminal!
One possible solution to prevent this from happening in the future is to mandate only full-time staff at nursing homes, no part-timers that have to work at multiple nursing homes to get full-time hours.
Pig farmers suffer the results of their mistakes and no one is held accountable in our medical systems, no matter how bad your performance. That is going to change – likely never.
It will ultimately proven that shutting down the world economy caused more deaths then CCP19. Never trust politicians with your well-being, ever.
Canada is a case study in inefficiency, ignorance, paranoia, antipathy towards the more vulnerable in society and an excessive love of comfort that ultimately proves disastrous.
Prove me wrong.
My mother’s in a for-profit old timey residence. She’s 87.
No deaths. A couple workers and one resident tested positive in the last 10 months.
We did a window visit Christmas day and an outside, distanced and masked visit in the summer.
Pretty simple solution: quarantine the vulnerable.
Its only rocket science to half-wits while pathologically power-mad ‘doctors’ laugh and collect accolades.
Is that because of a perfect strategy, or dumb luck?
Given how ridiculously contagious this virus is, more likely its the latter.
Things are never as simple as “quarantine the old”
You’re stupid.
Wait..that would mean then that the lockdown is completely bogus and pointless and that some of the intstitutional deaths are attributable to dysfunctional institutions.
Must be fake news. Better close the borders to outgoing travel and issue a video telling people to stay at home in 22 languages.
IVERMECTIN is now allowed to be used in the u.s. to treat covid 19.. it is being called a miracle drug…it is generic and cheap.. rather than carp on the small stuff..we need to press our canadian dick head politos to allow it.. i think you gals and guys know how to do this!!
They just had to wait for the right person to be President to start treating patients and end the crisis.
Free Healthcare,provided by government.
2020 demonstrated what a miserable failure that experiment has become.
Now the very same government,who has now admitted that ;
“None of those rules and restrictions apply to any level of government”
Is currently pushing national quit smoking week,where they assure us 45 000 Canadians die each year from smoking related illnesses…
Yet we have destroyed the economy over 19 000 people dying of a flu?
Does not compute.
Fire them all.
I have learnt much from Public Health Canada’s announcements.
Never trust a bureaucrat.Which I already knew.
Everything Government touches turns to shit.
Our “Free Healthcare” costs us an excessive amount of money and is dead.
A pseudo pandemic has shown the nature of our “servants” faced with potential increased demand for intensive care units,they chose to refuse the public healthcare services,impose lockdowns and curfews on the healthy.
Threaten and silence any who questioned their incompetence..
Follow the money,instead of expanding the health service capacity,the government spent our money seeking to imprison us in our own homes,control private workplaces and seeks to extort penalties and fees from the citizens.
Useless,clueless and authoritarian ..what a winning combination.
All said and done,make friends with a veterinarian and up your barter skills.
For that government paper ain’t worth much and the theft on the return of your labour is only going up.
I enjoyed the first part of this thread, where boomers were busy telling us how while they made up the majority for decades, they never voted for anything that could possibly be detrimental to our glorious democracy.
“Free” health care like ours exists in two other places…North Korea and Cuba. It was modeled on the British, without the private part. National Health Service in Britain was broke by the time we copied them, so pissing on Boomers that weren’t old enough to vote yea or nay on this or the other socialist CPP and UIC crap is pointless. You’re paying cash at the clinic you go to?
Yep, the dentist, the eye clinic, the dermatology clinic, and a shit load of taxes all my life. Socialized medicine took hold in Ontario in the late 1960’s. Got worse under Trudeau the first and yes boomers contributed to the vote.
The distinction between public and for profit care homes is pretty much non-existent. Many provincial governments contract with private for profit care homes to house the elderly and frail. They negotiate a daily rate with the care home to provide ‘care’. Usually the rate is horrid and allows the profit, private care home to provide minimum care for their residents and yes some profit (which of course in health care is just horrid – unlike the care we are wiling to provide for our pets if they get sick). Their residents are usually the poor, very frail with lots of medical conditions (because they had no access to good health care for most of their lives), and no or few family members (who really don’t want to be bothered taking care of Uncle Ed who is in diapers and can’t feed himself) and and the oversight by government is lacking. But it allows the provinces to pretend to be caring for the elderly, but if anything goes wrong, it is ALL the fault of those evil for profit care homes.
Now, there are some very bad for profit care homes, but there are also many, many for profit care homes who go above and beyond to help their residents.