P.E.I. hospital suffers first COVID-19 outbreak since restrictions fully relaxed
P.E.I. hospital suffers first COVID-19 outbreak since restrictions fully relaxed
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P.E.I. hospital suffers first COVID-19 outbreak since restrictions fully relaxed
The Kings County Memorial Hospital in Montague is one of two on the eastern side of the island. It’s normally open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., but now closes at 4 p.m. as the COVID-19 outbreak in the inpatient unit puts additional stress on hospital operations.
Oh, who could have guessed? It seems that countries all over the world are learning the hard way that "living with COVID" means having precautions such as mask/respirator use, not living like it's 2019. I could imagine Finnish hospitals reporting the same as time goes on.
What do you suggest though? Never host another concert, event, festival, etc ever again? You aren't safe in outside events either - I got my case at an outdoor event.
You've always took that risk to go to such events. There's always an uptick in colds after major ones. Sometimes people are aware thst they feel sick, other times they are asymptomatic but a carrier.
No, we needn't cancel all the fun activities that involve large groups of people. But maybe we should give some thought to how those things work.
Would normalizing the use of decent masks help? Would it help to offer refunds to those who test positive or even just don't feel well? Maybe there are ways to run them that doesn't require people to be packed in like factory farmed chickens. Maybe there are ways to manage ventilation in a way that doesn't move the air horizontally through facilities. Maybe there are ways to partition the crowd into smaller cohorts that don't mingle with other cohorts.
I wouldn't mind finding a way to attend some of these things without just accepting that I'm going to catch something every couple of times I go out.
Shit guess hospitals are just gonna have to deal then, ey? You want that surgery done? Too bad, it's getting rescheduled. Again. Oh, your cancer is palliative only now, not curative care? Too bad, you waited too long.
The consequences of the consequences of the consequences... if your only reaction is "oh I can't do fun things anymore then, huh?!", well ... if you care about the consequences, you'd make different decisions. If you don't care about the consequences, be honest about it.