Canada contributing to worldwide childhood malnutrition

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Who advises against using lock downs as a primary means of response to covid19.

 

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Covid enforced isolation is killing our seniors.

 

https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/mental-mishaps/202009/death-covid-isolation

 

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My mom died this month. Alone. She died alone. Like thousands of other seniors, Covid isolation contributed to my mom's decline and death. It was a personal tragedy for my family, reflecting our national catastrophe.

My mom was a victim of both Alzheimer’s disease and the Covid pandemic. Alzheimer’s was the direct cause of her death. But the months of isolation led to her rapid decline. She didn’t have to die so soon. She should not have died alone. And I will forever regret her loneliness in her final months. I’ll always be angry that I couldn’t be with her as she was dying.

Isolation and loneliness are seriously damaging for older people, particularly those with Alzheimer’s disease. First, people who are less socially engaged and more lonely are likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia (Lara et al., 2019). Second, for older people, loneliness increases the likelihood of death (Perissinotto, et al., 2012). Loneliness is particularly likely to contribute to early death in people with Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of dementia (Olaya et al., 2017). The combination of loneliness and dementia is particularly deadly.

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The WHO recommends a targeted response for covid19 control.

The population of Canada, is 37,590,000 , there are 76,859 active covid19 cases. A targeted response to covid19, would mean isolating the one in 489 people in Canada with active covid19  infections, contact tracing and isolating their contacts, instead of locking down everyone. Also spending $5 to $10 billion bringing long term care homes, where 75% of the deaths have occurred up to the best possible standards would be wiser than spending $300 billion paying people to be idle.

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/covid-surgery-delay-unintended-consequences-1.5629360

 

The sacrifice Canadians have collectively made to flatten the coronavirus curve also includes immeasurable suffering from postponed surgeries, says a B.C. man who lost his mother not to the virus but to cancer.

Jasmine Yang, 60, started having abdominal pain, fever and then breathing difficulties in January. She went to an emergency department in Surrey, B.C., and was diagnosed with a rare form of ovarian cancer in March.

Her son, Jonathan Hu, 31, said oncologists recommended surgery in early April as the best treatment for Yang's three, late-stage tumours. But the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown included postponing or cancelling non-emergency surgeries like Yang's — and an estimated 394,575 others across Canada.

[Nefarious Banana]

Daughter-in-law is a health care worker in a seniors facility . . . central BC.  Her elderly patients haven't seen family or friends since March.  She's masked/covered, and hardly recognizable. She and the other health workers are the only human contact for these elderly folks. She's also overworked as other colleagues choose not to work.  Her elderly patients are alone and are in despair . . . . . and pass away.  Sad state of affairs.

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http://www.bccdc.ca/Health-Info-Site/Documents/Public_health_COVID-19_reports/Impact_School_Closures_COVID-19.pdf?fbclid=IwAR3NCv0msfjaeKkJ-zvBlARBby_IxWd_XquE5b2M_4LVoxWHYqwo0flybag

As the pandemic surged globally, schools were closed in most countries based on evidence from influenza outbreaks and the assumption that limiting student contact helps flatten the outbreak curve, reduce the burden on the health care system and protect vulnerable populations. However, accumulating evidence, including local epidemiology and international data, suggests that younger children are at lower risk of infection and serious disease compared with adults, and do not tend to spread the infection widely, reducing the effect of school closures. Schools support the learning, health, and development of children and youth and are key to reducing societal inequities. Prolonged school absences have detrimental effects on both children and families. Access to school resources for nutrition, health, and social supports are critical for many families. BC families reported impaired learning, increased child stress, and decreased connection during COVID-19 school closures, while global data show increased loneliness and declining mental health, including anxiety and depression. With the loss of supportive routines and structures, healthy behaviours have declined dramatically. Provincial child protection reports have also declined significantly despite reported increased domestic violence globally. This suggests decreased detection of child neglect and abuse without reporting from schools.

[OftenWrong]

37 minutes ago, oops said:

Her son, Jonathan Hu, 31, said oncologists recommended surgery in early April as the best treatment for Yang's three, late-stage tumours. But the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown included postponing or cancelling non-emergency surgeries like Yang's — and an estimated 394,575 others across Canada.

Sad story but the truth needs to come out. We must question and challenge the things our government is doing.

I have been saying similar things but was called a nazi. Not only by one forum member, neither. So expect either shit to be slung, or the silence. The silence of the rabbits.

 

 

[OftenWrong]

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But the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown included postponing or cancelling non-emergency surgeries like Yang's

Got to zoom in on this part- There is your definition of "non-emergency" surgery, folks. Exactly like I said. Non emergency, because the patient is not dying right there and then, even despite that the cancer is terminal in nature. Try to fathom that.

Sad truth too is she died in greater agony than had she receive treatment at the proper standards.

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https://theconversation.com/huge-government-debts-mean-canada-is-robbing-its-kids-147977#:~:text=Before the pandemic%2C the combined,children and their children's children.

Before the pandemic, the combined federal and provincial Canadian debt  totaled $1.4 trillion. And since then, this debt has rapidly grown, with governments borrowing another $300 billion in the current year alone. This debt will be mostly repaid by our children, their children and their children’s children.

This raises a moral matter of how we are treating our young and future Canadians. Is it ethical for governments to increase spending by placing greater debts on future generations?

Isn’t contractually placing our children into a monetary form of debt bondage morally indefensible? And how might we objectively judge government borrowing policies to ensure justice for future generations?

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https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/up-to-225-000-canadian-firms-could-close-because-of-covid-cfib-ceo-1.1520974

 

Up to 225,000 Canadian firms could close because of COVID: CFIB CEO

 

 

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Businesses are just not prepared for a second wave lockdown: Dan Kelly

More businesses are at risk of permanently closing their doors as some parts of the country mandate stricter COVID-19-related shutdowns, the head of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) warns.

“We are already seeing half of businesses in Canada – even those who are not affected by further rounds of shutdowns – saying that their sales dropped as a result of the second wave,” CFIB president and chief executive officer Dan Kelly said in a television interview with BNN Bloomberg Wednesday. “These businesses are already weakened.”

Prior to the second wave of infections, the CFIB estimated 160,000 businesses in Canada would fail before the pandemic ends. Kelly raised that number to 225,000, or more than one-in-seven.

“Governments are still fumbling around to put these programs in place – eight months in, ” Kelly said, referencing federal supports such as the promised Canada Emergency Business Account (CEBA) expansion and additional funding through a wage subsidy.

Kelly is urging governments to make shutdowns short and targeted to minimize the impact of a second round of business closures.

“Our advice to provincial governments is: ‘Please don’t put in place blanket shutdowns of the entire economy. If there are cases where you need to do that, make it surgical for those sectors or business activities where the problems are coming from – and lift them soon as is possible,’” he said.

 

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https://www.cp24.com/news/fatal-opioid-overdoses-have-nearly-doubled-since-april-and-covid-19-may-be-to-blame-1.5178156?cache=%3FclipId%3D89926%2F5-things-to-know-for-tuesday-september-3-2019-1.4575192

 

Paramedics responded to nearly double the number of fatal opioid overdose calls between April and September than they did during the same time period in 2018 and 2019 and a new report from the city’s medical officer of health suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic may be a factor in the alarming increase.

In the report, which will go before the city’s Board of Health on Nov. 16, Dr. Eileen de Villa says that paramedics actually responded to fewer non-fatal overdose calls between April 1 and Sept. 30 than they did in previous years. But she said that at the same time there was a significant increase in fatal opioid overdose calls, with an estimated 132 people dead as a result. That, she said, is nearly double the average of 67 fatal overdose calls during the same time period in 2018 and 2019.

While de Villa said that the impact of pandemic-related travel restrictions and border closures on the unregulated drug supply is not entirely clear, she said that it is likely that the “drug supply has been disrupted” and that could result in “changes in the potency of drugs.”

She said that there have also been anecdotal reports from drug users that COVID-19 related changes “have resulted in a decrease in the availability of harm reduction treatment services, shelters and outreach service.”

Put simply, de Villa said that “COVID-19 is worsening the opioid poisoning crisis in Toronto and across Canada.”

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http://www.learningtoendabuse.ca/our-work/covid19_and_violence_against_women__children.html

COVID-19 and Violence Against Women & Children

Violence against women and children represents one of the most significant societal issues that endangers Canadians' health and well-being. COVID-19 has made these problems more severe. The increased risks of harm and vulnerability of abused women and children is obvious. International research has documented the increase in domestic violence and child abuse during crises such as the current pandemic.

Social distancing and isolation means that victims have less access to the support of friends and family and reduced availability of police and health care. Many victims and children are now isolated with the very individuals who abuse them. That increases their daily exposure to potential abuse and produces new means of control for abusive partners and parents.