Let's speak the truth

My husband is in long term care in the local hospital, awaiting a bed in the nursing home. I can no longer care for him at home, given his mobility issues and now his dementia. He has Parkinsons' disease and is in the 5th stage now, this is the stage with decreased mobility and he requires help with most daily functions. When he was admitted to hospital, the regulations changed overnight. I went from being his wife who was allowed to visit regularly to someone who was barred at the door. Then an accommodation was made for us to visit in a separate room in the ER, all because I am not vaccinated against the Sars Covid-2 virus. Nick isn't vaccinated either. And the hospital is following the rules set by the health official for Renfrew County, which keeps all unvaccinated persons away from patients in the hospital unless they are palliative or end of life. Then last Monday, another regulation came down and I cannot even visit my husband in that separate room in ER. I am not ...

What is going on? for two years, we have been enduring a pandemic and we have gotten used to lockdowns, masks, restrictions on our freedom, you can list a number of things here that have happened in the past two years. Last year, people were accused of being conspiracy theorists, people in tin foil hats, but this year it seems that these conspiracy theories offer some of the best explanations for what is happening. Having listened to hours and hours of documentaries on Covid, I am in the conspiracy camp. Sorry, but I just cannot swallow the lies that are being told hour after hour on every news station, on every television station, in every newspaper, in every op-ed. Everywhere the lie is told that we are in a pandemic, that we have to follow the government guidelines, on and on it goes. And during all that time, what are we seeing? businesses failing, people despairing of ever getting back to normal, people losing jobs, people losing hope. The most disturbing fact is the divisio...