The COVID-19 pandemic

[tomh009]

If nothing else comes out of all this, our society MUST improve living conditions for our non-indepent seniors, and working conditions for those who care for them.  What is happening, what has been allowed to happen, in seniors facilities is beyond horrid.

Having visited a number of long-term care homes in the past few years, they are generally not very uplifting environments, and the subsidized ones particularly so. The Quebec disaster case aside, however, I don't know that this is a major factor in the long-term care infections, but the lack of PPE for the staff has surely had an impact.

That said, I would very much like to see in increase in the subsidy amount, accompanied by some tightened standards on the level of care to be provided. I don't think you can just throw money at this problem indiscriminately, though, and hope that it'll solve itself. It's not an easy problem.