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Let's take a moment to talk about how incredibly OFFENSIVE these tweets are. These tweets, which started a couple months ago, ACTIVELY PAINT A DISTORTED REPRESENTATION OF THE LTC CRISIS UNDERWAY (something I've been pointing out since she first started tweeting them).
She fails to mention that the homes with small/no cases are largely NONPROFIT & MUNICIPAL HOMES.
She fails to mention how the WORST OUTBREAKS CONTINUE to be in FOR PROFIT FACILITIES.
She fails to mention the DOCUMENTED NEGLIGENCE explaining many of the worst hit homes.
6/7.
She throws in add-on's like "Enhanced testing is helping detect cases early" yet FAILS TO SAY WHAT THESE ARE.
ps. We don't take you at your word for anything so you'll need to clearly elaborate what these are.
7.7.
She fails to READ THE ROOM and appreciate how these tweets upset families and workers and instead chooses to carry on, almost as a giant social media 🖕 to us all.
From an @extendicare Assist supervisor:
After dedicating his life to nursing, he has lost trust in his employer. “There is no friggin’ way I would ever put [my mother] in a place like that. Never.”
⤵️ thelocal.to/whos-actually-…
...96 of Ontario’s 626 LTC homes have been outsourced, where the owner of the license has contracted a third party to operate the home. As of publication date, there have been 506 COVID-19 deaths in outsourced homes- 34% higher than homes that have not been outsourced.
Outsourcing is most prevalent among for-profit homes, but it happens across the industry: of the outsourced homes, 61 are for-profit, 30 are non-profit, and 5 are municipal.
THREAD.
What I love most about @DrFullertonMPP & her team (⤵️) is that they won't respond to me but instead they go around me to those in my circle in the hopes those people aren't tracking their failures IRL time like I've been (in order to combat their nonsense).
So I've become close with many in media/public advocacy and I want to let you know that some of these individuals ARE NOW BEING DIRECTLY CONTACTED BY @DrFullertonMPP's office about some of their "TWEETS" (which are critical).
SO INSTEAD of responding to families emails......and to PSW organizations offering support........and to myself & @dolybegum inviting her to come hear out #TendercareLTC families, she has chosen to instead email public figures in the hopes they will stop being critical.
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RE: Staffing/Fair wages:
I've talked about how this system reflects the trifecta of racism/sexism/ageism: vox.com/future-perfect…
*We have a majority older, female resident population cared for my a majority racialized, female workforce.
20 years ago (pre-Harris privatization), nursing homes were staffed primarily by NURSES (hence the name, NURSING HOMES).
Privatization kicks in....and these FP owners need to cut costs to increase their profits. How? STAFFING, TO START.
What unfolded over the last 20 years as Privatization increased was the reversal of the staffing mix from majority nurses to majority PSWs (who are an unregulated workforce comprised primarily of racialized women who are often new to Canada).