Over the holidays VLGF and I looked at dismay at our local and #provincial#covid monitoring results (#wastewater, hospitalizations, new cases etc) and decided that when we went back in public, or to work, we'd be #masking.
My first day back on Tuesday I ran into the COO and CEO (med. size company) in the breakroom, me sporting my mask, and they asked why the mask Spruce?
Six additional daycares in the Calgary area have been ordered to close by Alberta Health Services after children who attend the facilities tested positive for E. coli.
Exactly the kind of crisis one would expect under anti-vaxxer, Danielle Smith UCP government. 😤🤬
Hey #Canadians I'm trying to figure out what healthcare is like there. Everywhere has problems but they're all a bit different. Here in the USA people don't want to go to the hospital and rack up a bill that will leave them homeless so they stay home and die of something preventable. One person on Reddit said in #Canada people die of cancer while waiting for the results of their biopsy - they can afford the care but it takes so long because everything is so backlogged they die anyway. How true is this? Wait times for specialists take a couple months where I am in the US and the ER wait times probably 4-12 hrs.
You're going to get #conflicting#answers to many questions, because #health is a #provincial responsibility, so there are 13 different systems across Canada, and each does things a little differently.
#Access also varies a lot across the country, even within a province or territory. There are many #specialists in the largest centers, and next to none in #rural areas.
In the thinly-populated prairies, even getting a regular G.P. can be difficult or impossible.