One of the saddest impacts of the pandemic in 2022 is this belief that our personal choices are more important than our impact on others. That because it’s our choice and doesn’t hurt us personally then it’s ok- “personal responsibility”…As a healthcare worker in 2022,
I can unequivocally state this sentiment couldn’t be further from the truth. Our actions may not always have direct impacts on others that we can see, but they do impact others. And the longer governments place “personal choice” as the be all, end all…I have very little hope for
us. And it’s just plain sad. So I gear up for a weekend of witnessing the impacts of “personal choices” and the suffering that accompanies said impacts. I gear up knowing this winter has hell in store for so many, because as a society we can’t see past our own selves.
I gear up for this Alberta hell where truth, evidence, expertise are targeted and misinformation rules the day doing exponential harm. I gear up for witnessing people who need help not getting what they need and have a right to. Of giving my all and always coming up short.
I gear up to watch our healthcare system fail, the people who have worked so darn hard to keep it afloat can’t patch the holes any longer. The ship is going down. Taking the vulnerable, the sick & suffering with it. I value and find so much fulfillment in my work, but the moral
Injury of witnessing unnecessary human suffering despite all of my efforts is soul crushing. I am limited in my ability to help because as a society we have chosen to not give a damn. We’ve been conditioned to not. Leadership has failed us, and we are failing each other.
I don’t know how long the passion and love for my job will outweigh the sinking ship that takes me away from my family, impacts my own health and crushes my soul. I don’t know how long I can bare witness to the suffering happening and being powerless.
I can go a shift without peeing or eating, I can work all the hours with minimal sleep, be absent from my kids because this work is my heart’s work. But I can’t give every bit of myself, forsake my own family to be handcuffed in doing my work and sit in that boat as it goes under
The reality is the system has collapsed, we ALL have a part to play in reducing the pain and suffering of others. Every single one of us has an impact on others, and our actions matter. Straying from this harms people. #abhealth #abpoli
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