Clear communication is so important in times of national crisis. With no articulation of the goals and challenges, there is wavering trust in our leaders to lead us through this long dark period of Canadian history.

This is true for all levels of health care administration.

With the Covid pandemic, physicians and nurses locally rallied to the cause. We enjoined with our leaders on this great and patriotic national enterprise to keep our patients and our communities safe.

We were all in it together; and then we were not.
I am, through daily conversations with nursing and physician colleagues, coming to the sad realization that many health care providers now feel abandoned.
We know vaccinations are coming on stream and though we are seeing Covid patients, we also realize that there are individuals and communities in greater need and that we will have to be patient.
What is truly irksome is the total lack of communication from health care authorities and leaders.

They operate behind shrouds of silence. Information is limited, is released in dribs and drabs and is generally unhelpful.
We need to know that you recognize our sacrifice, that you acknowledge that we have for ten solid months laid it out on the line and that we matter.
It is disheartening, truly disheartening, to hear that the @LGLHealthUnit is only now starting to consider the vaccine roll-out locally.
It is disheartening, truly disheartening, to watch the @LGLHealthUnit do absolutely nothing to keep our renegade, Covid denying MPP in check from spreading dangerous disinformation.
It is truly sad that front line health care workers in Lanark County are such an afterthought that nobody, but nobody, has even bothered to let us know roughly when we may be offered the protection of vaccination.
We do not function in isolation and when we see other health care workers, less at risk and in other jurisdictions, happily receiving the protective jab, we wonder why are we not even being considered.
We are grown-ups, we are professionals, we will continue to do our jobs to the best of our abilities come what may but we deserve the respect embodied in a conversation.

It is time that we are spoken with. This is disrespectful.

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