Saying it now - we'll call this the Covid games. These variants ripping through the world, elevating cases to near records, will decimate teams and audiences.
The denialism and utter contempt to what Covid can and will do to athletes should be criminal. Only 2 weeks ago the Tour de France belatedly introduced measures to protect riders.
Enraging: ''but I need to emphasize we are treating Covid no different to other bugs like flu'
and while we watch Covid rip through the Olympics, it continues to rip through our health systems - Nanaimo hospital is in a constant mess, LTCs are seeing staff drop in record numbers again, calling people back from holidays
If we keep 'treating it like the flu' as the Australian Olympic Committee unbelievably publicly stated, the fall and winter waves will be an absolute crisis
Bring back health masking, make it permanent
Patients who went to Mission Memorial Hospital’s emergency department on Tuesday evening were told to go to Abbotsford General or Maple Ridge hospitals, the first time a Metro Vancouver acute care facility has turned away patients due to critical staffing shortages.
Mat Wright
Scott 🏴😷
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