Grapes said:
Below is commentary from a good friend of mine that is a hospital administrator for our largest Cancer Facility in Ontario. Very smart person, different place in this scenario, different view. Not entirely invalid from her perspective but certainly narrow.
This morning I am furious and disappointed and furious
some more. I drove from Grimsby to St. Catharines and
with every overpass I became more furious. This trucker
**** show (and I know some of you support this) is one of
the most disrespectful and selfish acts I have seen. This
is a **** you to every person that has tried to minimize
spread, to every teacher who has taught online to
minimize spread, to every family that has lost someone,
to every person suffering in isolation to minimize spread.
It is a giant **** you to every healthcare worker that has
been hailed a hero one day and spit on the next, who has
worked beyond what is reasonable, who is terrified to
bring this home to their families, who has born the
trauma and mental distress of watching people intubated
and die in ICU, who have watched healthy people
become disabled from long covid. For healthcare leaders
that have had to work countless hours to plan and replan
every part of the system to help care for people (some of
whom spit in the face of the science that heals them).
And to you supporting this I say **** you! Unfriend me
because your selfishness and indignation at
inconveniences make you someone I don't want in my
life.
Unfortunately, your friend is a brainwashed dumbass that doesn't understand the big picture nor the reality of these truckers because I'm sure she thinks they are beneath her.
She probably doesn't realize that most of these truckers don't even come into contact with anyone else. They move product from point A to point B and is one of the more isolating jobs there is. Their risk of spreading COVID is minimal compared to most other job occupations. In addition, they happen to be in one of the most critical jobs there is because it enables commerce and allows the larger population to meet Maslow's Needs during times of crisis.
If not for these truckers she is probably not able to get some of the supplies she uses every day to treat patients for a variety of illnesses or issues. Typical narrow minded, dumbass doctor that doesn't know **** about anything outside of the human body. And many have squandered the equity on the latter at this point.