Ezra is right, they needed the beds.
There are 6 tweets under the main one scroll down to go through them. Below that “Kelly” has some charts for context.
Even though it ran in the Globe and Mail this is the biggest story in Canada that no ones talking about.
Canadians don’t seem to care.
Consider this case:
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/facing-another-retirement-home-lockdown-90-year-old-chooses-medically-assisted-death-1.5197140
Who tried talking her out of it?
The culture is lost.
Sadly, those cheering the putting down of the elderly scream whenever a litter of unwanted puppies is destroyed.
Soon, even that slaughter will be meaningless to them.
I get it. My mother is in an assisted care facility, she is just shy of her 96th birthday. The facility is very good, but she is regularly restricted to her room in what amounts to solitary confinement. As a result she is bloody miserable and almost every time I go visit her (which I do at least twice a week) she cries on my shoulder “Please, just let me go”. It breaks my heart.
We have thought about bringing her home (thus saving over $5k/month), but it is a huge commitment. She needs help getting dressed, bathing, bathroom, even eating can be an issue. At the retirement home she has excellent trained staff, including nurses and regular visits from a doctor. There is also a hairdressing salon, which perks her up no end.
To do all that at home is tough, and what happens when we both go out? She cannot be left home alone for any length of time.
The whole issue of procedures during health emergencies has to be completely overhauled. A lockdown for a week or two to “flatten the curve” may be justified on occasion, but long term the seniors crave contact with family and friends and to deny that is, in my opinion, cruel and unusual punishment. My mother repeatedly said that she would happily face the Whuflu rather than isolation. In fact she tested positive back in December, along with 16 others from her section of the home. One died, all others were ok, but since they are all in their nineties, and frail, one death is not at all unusual. Loneliness kills, and that is happening all over and the governments either don’t understand this, don’t care or maybe this is even by intent (probably not – never ascribe to malice that which may be explained by stupidity)
The old and the young have borne the sociological brunt of covid lockdowns.
Funny how the artsy fartsy types in government haven’t glommed onto this issue for which they’re all been “trained.”
Fools and charlatans are our new elites.
Running their businesses into the ground trying appease the fascists. Our 1930s moment.
I doubt many voters recognize good government anymore. We’ve become complacent, selfish and thoughtless despite unprecedented access to information, so ripe to having it all taken away.
Yet we’re more ignorant and oblivious than ever.
I recall a professor noting authoritarian regimes like China didn’t like mass information systems, the PC then, the internet and social media now, because they feared losing control of their sustaining narrative.
Funny how the latest thing that gives totalitarians pause is now buoyed for their benefit by social media oligarchs.
OK not funny. I continue to await a voter uprising to quell the thought police who now crush commerce to not let a crisis go to waste.
I wonder if they waited for that in Venezuela? We should govern ourselves accordingly. As good people do nothing, collectivists in all forms rage on us.
Yep, we kept my mother in law in her apartment for a long as safely possible. She was wandering the streets in New Westminster at 2:00am on a Saturday night, and her neighbors who were out for a late evening, got her back to the apartment. A hot date with a nona-genarian! 🙂 My wife was doing the weekly shop, laundry and organizing for a 10 year run. Yes it is a marathon not a sprint! We eventually by twists and turns got her into the Czorny Alzheimer Care Centre where she lasted about 18 months and passed at 92. (Actually one of the rare well run places in the nursing care field). The first place the health folks got her to was nothing short of appalling; which prompted the application for transfer PDQ.
On the other side of the family, I coached my father’s second wife to at all costs avoid putting my dad into a “nursing care facility”. One is typically better off at home, and she followed that advice. My dad being the strong willed kind, waved off all help after his stroke, and made his own way to the ambulance sans walker or cane; albeit it took him half an hour to climb on board. Not the kind to go quietly into the long good night even at 92 with a stroke; he passed about 10 days later. Thankfully not a long protracted illness.
As for the Quebec legal “intelligencia” and Supreme Court of Canada putting their imprimatur on the whole exercise; they who have engineered the above storyline over the course of the last decade; they are simply the new and improved NAZIS just without the double SS runes on their lapels.
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
My condolences on your father’s passing. I remember you mentioned he worked on a number of hydroelectric dams, including Grand Rapids. I have friends who live there … the dam is still good 60 years later.
Off topic response:
Thanks for that. Grand Rapids was full of limestone so the order of the day was grout curtain wall foundations. The guys down on the Oroville dam could’ve taken some lessons from my dad, as the dam nearly failed with the shoddy spillway construction.
See here:
What Really Happened at the Oroville Dam Spillway?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxNM4DGBRMU
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group “True North”
I feel for you, Imp. My and my wife’s parents have all passed and I shudder to think how we and they would’ve coped. My Dad, the “last” of the four, spent his last months following his stroke in an assisted care home. When this all began a year and a half ago, and Dad had been gone just over four years, my sister said something to the effect that it’s good Dad isn’t around to have to put up with all this. Meaning the enforced isolation from family and friends. I held my tongue and resisted the urge to say Dad would’ve gone on one of his rants about those “Commie Chinese”. A year and a half later I’m sure Dad would’ve amended that rant to rail against the state of what a bunch of pansies this society has become.
A niece graduated high school this year and in a congratulatory note to her I begged her to promise that when she becomes rich, famous and a Master of the Universe (Mistress?), not to allow what my generation did to hers over the past 16 months. I may as well apologize to my parents as well…
My wife works in long term care, has for around 30 years. No matter how good a home appears when you visit it is when you aren’t there that matters. Get yourself a hidden camera that you can monitor remotely.
I feel the same way. I would rather die of whuflu than be denied the right to hug my grandchildren.
Your sad experience, sir, is a perfect example of how we as a culture treat the most vulnerable and then expect an equally awful government to clean up the mess so that we don’t have to nor do we have to face the moral consequences of our actions.
Hire help with the extra $5K a month. What is stopping you except for the inconvenience? She is 96 years old, sobbing on your shoulder twice a week. Good grief. (And my family did it with $0, taking turns for two years.)
O K, you do know that Canadians are callous pigs at the government the trough and anyone removed from trough creates more trough for them. Canadians are so dumb they are more than willing to shoot an untested poison into their bodies thinking it is a vaccine. Don’t get much dumber than that. That “medically assisted death” is why I won’t be taking the not-vaccines.
Cultural Marxism has done this.
It’s how people can kill their children and elderly and burn churches with glee.
There are a few of a certain type of commenter on these pages who have consistently CHEERED the death of … old people … so that the remaining voices disputing CAGW will go away. Then … a “clean green” future of clearcutting those pesky forests for burning “bio-neutral-eco-fuels” (shipped to Europe) and erecting hundreds of thousands wind contraptions over millions of hectares can finally get started.
Yes. The leftist destroyers want us gone. ASAP.
There was a first year engineer in the University dorm across the hall from me when I was in 3rd year. He grew up in small town Saskatchewan and worked in his parents’ cafe prior to leaving for school. Both of his folks were at least mid-50’s (and probably footing their kid’s education bill). Early on in the school year when I was getting to know my dorm neighbours he made a serious statement that he believed that people were only useful to age 60 at which point they should be immediately put down to prevent strain on the system. I pointed out to him that under those rules his parents would soon be dead. I don’t remember his exact response but he didn’t seem hurt by the prospect. I also had a niece tell me when her mom (my sister) was near death from a stroke that if her mom died she’d be sad for a little while and then it would be o.k.. How did these selfish kids not have anything more than thimblefulls of human empathy? I was hoping at the time the dorm neighbour said his “put down at 60” brainwave that it was too extreme and inhuman to become reality. After seeing what Quebec and New York have done to residents, seemingly with zero consequences, in Senior Care Homes that idea actually to rid the country of all seniors to save the system (and Mother Gaia of course!) might catch on sooner than later. Young progressives appear not to give a rat’s ass about seniors. Am I wrong?
Nope. It used to be a really kewl idea to have multigenerational homes (like most immigrant families) so each generation can contribute to the other. A positive change from the … ewwwww … Nuclear Family. Seniors delivered the wisdom, life experience, and built-in daycare.
Now that The Government has effectively eliminated Fathers from Families … they’re trying to eliminate the Seniors from the Home as well. It appears as though The Government wants nothing but single moms and babies in every household. Immigrants preferred.
Kenji, I grew up in a small town where most of my family lived. Both grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins. My Grandparents lived until I was in my late teens and my one grandmother lived to see a few of her great grandchildren. Not one of them was ever placed in a home.
As it should be. You and they were blessed.
I was actually raised by my grandmother (off and on) … just like all the crack-babies my wife teaches in Oakland. My Great Grandmother, Yerda (Swedish immigrant who arrived in 1898) lived by herself in Oakland … as her independent spirit demanded. She was an incredible cook and prepared all our Holiday meals. She lived by herself until age 93 when she fell, broke her hip, and went medically downhill quickly. But she maintained her quick wit and sense of humor till the end. I LOVED having a Great Grandparent in my life … she and my grandmother grounded my life and were cheerleaders for every good thing I did. Miss them both.
They can enter Carrousel and be “Renewed”!
I’ll forever be a Runner.
With somebody like Jessica (played by Jenny Agutter in the movie), who could blame Logan for running? (Yeah, I know that was his assignment, bu still…..)
Sadly, no, you are not wrong.
Taking health advice from individuals or groups that believe the planet’s biggest problem is overpopulation is not a good idea, taking their vaccine is madness.
The killing off of the expensive elderly is a global disgrace. But as long as it wasn’t me I’m good.
Toward a more perfect ant colony . . .
Kind of reminds me of that animated movie “Antz”
Logan’s Run.
Not quite…
They’ve also poisoned the stock that follow blindly.
Certainly going to create more health problems for this overburdened system.
You’ve burned out the Healthcare workers too.
Wearing masks and working is very difficult.
And making more laws and restrictions on top…
I quit!
News today is a restaurant owner found people using faked vaccine passports.
Justin, I read somewhere that a $500,000 fine was proposed for fake vaccine passports. Not sure where I read it or if it was Canada or the US.
The Liberal Party’s bought and paid for media are not going to discuss this story very much, because Blackie and the Quebec Premier are buddies, and the election is coming.
The Quebecois turned their collective backs on the RC Church (and anything remotely religious) and embraced socialism long before the ROC decided to drink the koolaid…Why is anybody surprised that the more “odious” precepts of socialism/communism are the defining factor for that province?
This is why we must let Quebec die.
Logan’s Run – the novel and the motion picture – should be mandatory study for everyone.
The media and schools have trained a generation to hate old white people because we’re ‘Killing Gaia’ or something.
How much does that play into this?
We met a young mid thirties Quebec family at Grasslands. Francois said all the politicos are afraid of Covid, hence the harshest restrictions. This couple sold the keeping with the Jones’ home and are travelling Canada pulling a 35’ RV trailer.
Francois said the healthcare started going downhill since 1995, gee i wonder why?
Well, we fund Quebec to the tune of $12 BILLION in Equalization every year from out here, to pay their cheap daycare and fund their health care. Did you ask him that one? I would have.
We are into a few generations of day care kids . Children learn empathy from their parents . Many parents turned their children over to daycares and schools to raise and we wonder why it is easy for them to euthanize the oldsters? Does no one use common sense anymore ? Of course it’s easy to off the old ones after all they never learned the value of families or 2-3 generations living in close proximity. It’s all about saving the earth ! The one thing they never learn or admit is one day it will be them that is getting he needle. We all grow old ,no one can escape it unless you die young .
Eliza I agree with you totally.
Thank God somebody said it, Eliza.
Kids have been removed from the home, their parents are morally and socially inept and we expect the government to care for us.
Children don’t learn values from union schlubs.
Not the right ones, anyway.
As usual, the root of all evil is government.
But all I ever hear from Chinadians is, “The government has to Do Something!”
Well they have, they are and they will Do Something and more often than not they have, they are and they will Do Something fucked up.
Dad and mom took his dad into our home when his wife passed. Grampa Peter, immigrant, lived with us for 10 years, outlived Dad (his youngest of 9). Grampa cut grass by scythe, shovelled snow, laughed watching TV alllstar wrestling (“bullshit”), played poker with family, chewed snuff, oatmeal breakfast, prune juice for regularity, wore wool pants year round. He lasted till 100, when shingles put him in the hospital, and it was downhill from there.
Great example of independence of thought, mobility. Gladly served his needs when allowed.
“put him in the hospital, and it was downhill from there.”
Yep – once old people hit hospital, even for minor things, they don’t last long. I knew someone who went to hospital for observation. While there, he broke his hip. Then some nurse wheeled him outside on a sunny day and forgot about him and baked his skin. Shortly thereafter he died.
I came across a reference to a Quebec politician saying that medically assisted dying should be available to those who would like to kill themselves to save the planet. I was aghast. These people are sociopaths. In fact, I wonder, if being a sociopath is not an integral aspect of those going into politics. There were no details in the brief mention of the politician’s remark. Has anyone else come across this? The remark does not seem to have made the media.
Ever heard of the Frenchman Jacques Cousteau and his ship Calypso ? he made the comment in an interview with the UNESCO Courier, that we should for the good of the planet eliminate 350,000 people daily . Maybe he was just thinking of Economical and Environmental issues, but who decides which of us are to be given the great honour of being one of the daily volunteers ? . Maybe a group of world commissioners based in places like Ottawa, Canberra, Washington DC could decide for us.
I have been saying this for months. Ditto the fentanyl crisis. The left’s form of ethnic cleansing. They are not financially motivated to keep seniors (bed blockers) alive or stop drug addicts. What did the Notley Government do about fentanyl od’s? Nothing! I know people who work in nursing homes. They have a very cavalier attitude about death and dying. NDP in Alberta and BC have even speculated about rationing care and vaccinations.