On Monday in Alberta, some people may have to go back to work who have an extreme risk of contracting #COVID19.
1/ @RachelNotley @JanisIrwin @CBCEdmonton @CBCCalgary @Paulatics @EmmaLGraney @jkenney #AbHealth #AbLeg @CMOH_Alberta This is important!
1/ @RachelNotley @JanisIrwin @CBCEdmonton @CBCCalgary @Paulatics @EmmaLGraney @jkenney #AbHealth #AbLeg @CMOH_Alberta This is important!
I am referring to dental assistants, dental hygienists, physiotherapy staff... anyone who is, due to the nature of their work, exposed, close up, to the breath of another. I know several such workers and they are terrified about going back to work. 2/
They don't want to get sick. Simple as that. They don't want to get sick / carry the virus to anyone else. This is extremely important. If the government cannot guarantee that these workers, these citizens, will be provided w/ essential PPE, they should not be forced back to work
It is the responsibility of the government to ensure these people are safe. Because they are people. They are not cogs in some corporate money machine. They are people. We don't live in an economy. We live in a society...
And a society is people. And if it is a civil society, it is people who care for one another. Someone needs to pay careful attention to what happens with these openings and make sure people are protected.
