Staff in Ontario nursing homes were recording videos as they danced from COVID infected residents to those who were well.
Like the debacle in New York and elsewhere, the report reveals COVID-19 patients are being housed in care homes with the uninfected — while you’re scolded about racism and told to consider your next door neighbors as potential plague rats.
And that’s just the tip of the adult diaper.
Military personnel sent to nursing homes in Ontario have observed shocking conditions, including “blatant disregard” for infection control measures, mistreatment of residents and a level of care described as “horrible,” according to documents obtained by Global News.
Canadian Armed Forces teams deployed to five of the province’s worst-hit long-term care homes to help control COVID-19 have raised concerns about each of the facilities, describing the care as ranging from below best practices to “borderline abusive, if not abusive” and worse, the documents show.
Infection prevention and control measures were found to be a particular problem, with Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) protocols going unheeded by staff, many of whom were not properly trained, according to the documents obtained from a source familiar with the mission. […]
The documents obtained by Global News said soldiers had witnessed cockroaches, flies and rotten food, residents left in soiled diapers and crying out for help for lengthy periods without any response.
At one facility, residents had not been bathed in weeks, the documents alleged.
Staff at a Brampton nursing home allegedly recorded a Taylor Swift Dance Video showing them dancing through the facility, passing between areas deemed COVID-19 positive and negative without wearing any protective equipment, the documents claimed.
At a facility in Etobicoke that has experienced dozens of coronavirus deaths, residents who tested positive for COVID-19 shared rooms with uninfected residents, separated only by a curtain, the documents said.
Military sources tell Global News that the letter warning Minister @BillBlair's office was sent May 14th. I have a copy of the letter dated May 14th. Public Safety has just called me to say they did not receive a copy until May 22nd. Have asked for date on their letter…
— Mercedes Stephenson (@MercedesGlobal) May 26, 2020
Updated with more, via this note in the comments. It will be very interesting to see if any of these issues have been found at Revera facilities…
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But…but…but…CBC had this article all about the heroes of the pandemic, the guardian angels, who were irregular border crossers and those awaiting adjudication on their refugee claims happily taking positions to tenderly care for our elderly in a totally selfless manner at great personal risk to themselves and their children. What happened????
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-chsld-asylum-seekers-1.5559354
aaaand lots of “Cultural Enrichment” to be sure. Doing the jobs Canadians won’t do.
“What happened????”
Apparently many decided to change careers and go into the Meat Packing business.
“When I grow old, I want to be sent to be warehoused in some filthy old-folks hellscape”. Says no one who isn’t already severely depressed.
I would welcome some leadership and development of governing standards for staff and facilities.
However, lately having spent a great deal of time with elderly relatives in the extended care / nursing home (both for profit and provincial) I would recommend that you stay in your own home as long as you possibly can. It doesn’t get any better when you move to old-folks prison.
If only we all wore masks, if only ………
Institutional care,provided to government standards..
Or so the parasites keep telling us.
Just like “Free Healthcare” which is so awesome that we have shut the country down to prevent its failure.
And so the tail wags the dog.
The useless and clueless insist they are so much smarter than everyone else,that they must run our lives for us.
When will we cast them aside?
Before or after the unit of exchange is rendered worthless than rocks.?
I hate to tell my friends to the north how this is going to shape out. There are a large number of studies showing Not for profit Care facilities have fewer violations than For profit care facilities (especially in Ontario). Guess what happens next….For profit care facilities get regulated and fined out of existence. Not for profit care facilities require a bigger cut of the pie from the government. Everyone pays more, the care stays the same.
I’m just curious how a care facility can operate under those conditions without some sort of evaluation from the licensing board. I’m sure these conditions didn’t just develop overnight. So, either they aren’t doing inspections…or they are doing inspections and are falsifying their reporting. This might end up being a rather large scandal.
Quebecers are mostly French and in a Canadian context pretty much akin to organized crime.
So we import people to look after our old people and recruit people from countries where the average lifespan is 12 years. I’m old and am not looking forward to the day when I’m warehoused.
Its a generational thing. My grandparents took care of my great-grandparents. Then the boomers/womens lib movement went to work. Now, there’s nobody home to watch the grandparents anymore so they shipped them off to retirement homes.
On a side note, its also why kids who grew up in the 80s and beyond are fat…their mothers are working and not making wholesome meals.
Thank God the government is here for us, though. What? Oh….
Yes, parents, grandparents … died at home. That was the extent of their estate planning. But now we are richer than our kids.
Families were larger and now the old folks are living longer. They become so frail they end up in a care unit, away from family.
I’ll be able to sing “When I’m 64” this year still in good shape with no health issues.
By 64 my dad had four heart attacks, an aortic aneurysm and one of two strokes, passing at 73.
The old paradigm, retire at 65, die at 67 no longer valid. Now time in retirement nearly as long as time in workforce.
Old people living longer are are new drain on the medical system, hanging around hospitals in their last years of life.
Ultimately a good thing, but also hugely expensive, with the first wave of baby boomers, now in their 70s entering this system.
So, we must fix this assisted care, nursing home system or else risk worse disaster. Sometimes the market fails, like this.
I am going to try this again. I take great exception to your “drain on the medical system” comment. They paid for that system, we all pay for that system. I am older than many in these homes. I will never be in one because I have planned not to be. I worked and paid taxes in this country before the insane socialists took over and they have worked so hard to destroy everything, including the medical system, the bureaucracy is the drain. People were not dying in the streets before Tommy Douglas raised his evil head. In fact people were not dying in the streets all of Tommy’s life. He used that, as did the rest of the commies to gain control of the people. This whoowho flu should show anyone who actually has a sound mind just what has been done to us. STUPID STUPID CANADIANS.
I used reality, large amounts of old people entering an unfunded system is most certainly a drain on that system.
OTOH you inferred that point was something other than a comment on reality, not entitled to unreceived care?
Old people paid into the system, and are entitled to care. Really, what a revelation. No shit Sherlock, I’m one of them.
Reality is just that. If we don’t fix our medical system, market failure induced by government, we risk big problems.
IOW, government caused the problem, so are not the solution. Let the market work, instead of outlawing it.
Shamrock, you are not bright enough to respond to. These people myself included paid for this shit all our lives and they are not a goddammed drain. Don’t make statements that can cause you to look like a fool. You start your sentence with the same damn condemnation, old people are a drain, that is unacceptable PERIOD.
I guess that i am on the 15th hole of lifes golf course also and I agree with every thing that OWG stated above. Tommy the commie was the beginning of the end for this country. Then along came Turdeau #1 who set the future plans to be followed by succeeding Quebec Prime Ministers. Now we have a wanna be dictator who is fully aided and abetted by the Blockheads Quebecois,the NDP and whats left of the Green Party. The toothless tiger masquerading as the Conservative party is just liberal light without any meaningful policies they can actually call their own.
18 thumbs up, FJ!
Cpl things.
I’m grateful my parents passed on in Merritt BC at a NH I have visited on numerous occasions where I found the staff to be professional, all of whom were for the most part RN’s…. with zero complaints from either mom or dad. They were as happy there as anywhere else.
I cannot speak for any other NH anywhere in the country.
Am I surprised at the level of NON CARE in Ontariowe..??
Well when your provinces’ FOCUS has been for the past 20 years one of Climate Change and catering to Public Service UNIONS, a policy foisted on you by:
Voting LIBERAL & giving the Lying Sack of dung aka Dalton McGuinty – FREE Reign, whose # 2 man, a veritable NAZI, Gerald Butts created. Policies continued by Kathleen Whine.
what did you expect would be the end result…??
330 Billion in the Shitter
Highest electricity pricing in the country
& A Public Service that by all accounts is overpaid by 40%.
ZERO $$ for any REAL Essential Services. (Trained NUrsing home staff…for one of many)
YOU VOTED FOR IT Toronto – you can wear it.
As for the “liberals”….They want us all dead – and it shows.
The reason this was done in Ontario, and released to the media, was to pin it on Doug Ford.
I am sure the same situation exists in Quebec, but if so, you will not hear a peep about it.
And the situation may have been caused by previous governments, but only libs and dippers get to spend their entire time in power blaming everything on the previous gov’t/administration. If you are a conservative, everything is your fault from Day 1.
Think Harper/Trudeau.
upvote. it is all politics and starts with the world wide insane condemnation of President Trump. I will bet that if Obama or someone like him , a democrat commie, were in power it would be like the swine flu in 2009, when Obama was in office. 61 million Americans had that flu the numbers of deaths is obscure, some say 18,000, no one really knows. The bull shit and hype around sars-cov-2, which has not even reached pandemic proportions makes no sense unless one looks at the political aspect. You should all be freaking terrified.
Agreed it might be political. Maybe in QU the media is just scared of the mafia who run the homes.
While true, don’t forget the dreadful situation in Dorval:
https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/public-health-police-find-bodies-feces-at-dorval-seniors-residence-sources/
It’s just that no one is reminding us everyday what a bunch of sh–bags Quebeckers are to their elderly.
The circle in hell for child, elder and animal abusers must be very popular.
What a sad/shameful commentary on a modern first world country. The military has to be deployed to look after oldies in nursing homes?
If somebody told you this would be happening 6 months ago you would have scoffed at the idea.
Canada is no longer a first world country. Third world shithole run by puppet dictators…one after another. Liberal friendly corps and minorities are given preferred status. Stacked judiciary of lib friendly judges. The government takes half our wages to dole out to their friends. The list goes on and the ship is sinking. Never gonna get fixed…just gonna get worse. Canucks are by and large too stupid to notice.
So true.
If you get familiar with the cost and running these waiting to die places, it’s not a surprise.
One can consider it as the last scam before you die.
Sister in law was in a facility like that with brain cancer, the cost was even $8000 a month.
It was a rather nice facility to look at and the food was good.
The help staff was 100% from those that came over to enrich Canadians with their presence. If you go by the reports, they work only a few hours in one place and then they go to another one.
The pay is not the best, though I don’t know.
She had to actually get her own toilet paper. Could not believe it, $8000 can’t buy you a toilet paper.
It is true that there are places that are less expansive and people chose what they want if they have the means. So that is neither here nor there.
Just curious, who is scamming the big bucks.
Now there are rumors from the eNDeePee and other socialist/fascist parties that these places should be taken over by the government.
That will show them.
Though the first thing first.
Strike.
More pay, at least $25 or more an hour and more union workers so they will have to work less.
This is plus how many counts of criminal negligence causing death to the rap sheet of our PM?
The situation with too many long term care facilities is a disgrace to humanity.
If there is anything positive out of this crazy time shedding light on this is it. Those responsible for operating these shit holes called “homes” should be sued out of business.
We need to keep on the arses of those who talk big and do little in the political realm.
“And that’s just the tip of the adult diaper.”
Heh. Gold.
The horrible nightmare that is our long term care facilities has been around for decades. The useless, incompetent media failed to ‘speak truth to power’ about this for year after year. The media are failures; biased and dumb. The second elephant in the room is the diversity of the staff who we cannot talk about for fear of (media driven) charges of racism, which, when yowled out by vindictive know nothings, can screw up your job, career, and business. The media wants to be Bolshevik; the incompetent staff and fiend owners of these dank hell holes are in a symbiotic relationship with the Bolsheviks. They vote Bolshevik; the give money to the Bolshevik political machine. Nothing is going to happen about these places; the wise and caring will keep their family at home.
A friend of mine was in the hospital at the very beginning of all this. She had breast cancer and was undergoing a mastectomy. As a result she had to stay in recovery for several days. At one point they thought she might have COVID-19. As a result, the “heroes” working at the hospital refused to bring her meals for fear of catching the virus. She missed several meals and visitations were so restricted her family couldn’t always get in to bring her something to eat.
What fries me is that the unions might cover for these “heroes”.
It will be very interesting to see if any of these issues have been found at Revera facilities.
Revera Inc is described as a “private company”. Its a big player in Canadian senior care.
Revera Inc is 100% owned by Canadian Federal government through the Fed Gov employee pension plan (about $160 billion in size)
Its my understanding the Treasury Board Cabinet Minister controls Revera board members through its authority to appoint the board.
There will be a Union & Librano & Watermelon media push for more Federal government control of this industry, when in fact it already has a major footprint here through this & other government creatures.
In Waterloo Region – about 560,000 population, we have had a total of 113 covid deaths. 50 of which were at Forest Heights Revera, a single home.
Noticed that its owned by the federales.
The interesting thing is, its run by political hacks. One of them is or was certain Harris.
Another thing is that if you have an issue, there is a no fault situation for the federal scam.
You can take the issue with the government, they will tell you that its run by independent board of directors.
You can take the issue with the directors, they will tell you that its the government.
See how that works out?
Nobody is at fault but the resident.
Case solved.
Is this criminal negligence or is it a premeditated, 1st degree murder, committed by an organized group?
I wonder if the feds knew the political orientation of the deceased residents and what it was.
Harris is Chairman of the Board at Chartwell, not Revera, though the liberal mouthpieces are beating the drum that it’s Harris’ fault for choices made 2 decades ago when there was no money available, and he was the last Premier to actually expand it in any meaningful way.
Looking at the breakdown of deaths at various LTC homes, it’s a mess no matter who runs it::
Hasn’t been updated since may 6th, so the numbers are worse:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-covid19-ltc-chart-1.5557748
And yet Blackie can spend nine billion dollars for students to sit at home on their asses. And send wheelbarrows of money to shithole countries.
Damn it two comments flushed.
No mention of the rampant thefts that happen in these facilities by staffers. My grandmother had brand new sheets, jewelry and even books stolen. Some of it’s other residents too but we caught staff red handed. If you ever have a family member in one of these places keep that in mind.
A real problem in American facilities as well, aggravated by senility making accusations of theft problematic
Trudeau must be furious at the military for leaking this information.
I’m sure he’s looking forward to six months from now when the soldiers start having PTSD issues, leave the military, and then get worse treatment from Veteran’s Affairs. That will show them for opening their mouths.
I’d rather suck start a 12 gauge than be imprisoned in one of those places.
We do everything to live longer lives only to spent the last few in prison abused untouchable low IQ imports.
All that while our government is paying foreign visa students for staying at home.
Sick fucking society
“I’d rather suck start a 12 gauge than …”
You can’t do that, Colonialista, those are prohibited. You’ll have to make do with a 20 gauge.
They are not really prisons. Raise your children well and you can reduce how many years you will be there.
Criminal investigation required, lots of explaining to do for JustUN and team.
Criminla investigation, ha ha ha. Good one. Next thing you will demand that medical malpractice lawsuits in Canada actually have a chance in court and that police will be required to wear body cameras.
Totally off topic and I apologize – But does anyone know how Jordan Peterson is doing?
A cursory look at his website didn’t tell me much.
According to Dave Rubin, he’s doing well.
PBO says the deficit will now hit 260 BILLION – insanity.
What a gold mine for the media!
They can write a couple of stories about this that are vaguely critical of Blackie and he’ll hand over another half a billion to them to shut them up.
The system works.
You wanted government in charge of your healthcare, your diet decisions, what you drive, your television and radio, your roads, your education, your power generation, your insurance, … .
You applauded lock down measures. You went after bonspiels with an acidic vitriol I have rarely seen. You never saw a problem before, why complain now?