Author of the article: Liz Braun
Publishing date: Mar 08, 2021 • March 8, 2021 • 3 minute read • Toronto nurse Jessica Faraone is pictured on the balcony of her condo on March 7., 2021. She is in quarantine at home after returning last week from Tanzania where she volunteered at a medical clinic. Photographer Jack Boland took this picture from the ground while Faraone stood on her fourth-floor balcony. Photo by JACK BOLAND /TORONTO SUN
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Jessica Faraone is the nurse who attracted a firestorm of criticism when she arrived at Pearson and refused to wear a mask, take a COVID test or go to a hotel.
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This country may be good at keeping the coronavirus from spreading, but some health officials at Pearson International Airport could work on their manners. And basic human respect and empathy.
“I want to go home,” said Fatim Ali Monday as she cradled her tiny 16-month-old boy, Motinsar.
And as a non-criminal, who has not been told she or her child are COVID positive, she should have gotten her wish to return home.
But in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Canada, she was not only told she couldn’t but also had to continue to stand in line until a shuttle bus arrived to take her and her infant to a quarantine hotel.