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Louder for the folks in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.
If the country’s biggest and best-equipped hospitals are struggling, imagine what’s happening when you only have one emergency respirator in your community. https://twitter.com/mrahmednurali/status/1346541629969203206
If the country’s biggest and best-equipped hospitals are struggling, imagine what’s happening when you only have one emergency respirator in your community. https://twitter.com/mrahmednurali/status/1346541629969203206
Rural leaders, communities and businesses have offered their best supports (see recent @GreyBruceHealth & @Bruce_Power announcement on rural vaccine hub - and their earlier work with PPE distribution), yet seem un- or under-acknowledged.
Rural municipalities were among first to adopt virtual council meetings, redeploy staff to LTC & essential services, & lean on community supports to mobilize protective measures. But remote learning, telehealth, or working from home? Not functionally possible on rural broadband.
And still? People keep promoting or suggesting “escaping” the pandemic by moving to rural and small town communities. As @annehelen wrote in the early days, the pandemic is not your vacation - and rural Canada cannot be left behind as we navigate these most difficult days.
(NB: I don’t have blinders on. I know GTHA is struggling under the weight of the highest burden of the pandemic right now. No one in rural Canada begrudges important interventions in hotspots. We just ask for awareness & acknowledgement of rural-specific implications & impacts).
