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I want to thank Drs. Kelley Zwicker, Andrzej Rochowski, and Jane Liddle for bringing the issue of children’s mental health to public attention.
As a doctor, I am aware that the health system wasn’t prepared for an infectious disease pandemic, but it became prepared. People were dying of COVID-19: public health and governments mobilized; more hospital beds were found; and health care workers took extra shifts to manage. We built field hospitals and moved patients around the province to get people the medical treatment they needed.
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It’s surreal that, a year into the pandemic, lockdowns are still happening with no real apparent end in sight. The latest has business owners and managers not only thinking about how to survive while operating at reduced capacity (or none at all), but also how to keep staff morale up while dealing with frustrated customers who dump their frustrations into our premises.
Unfortunately, employee abuse at the hands of customers is on the rise in retail and other small businesses. COVID fatigue and further restrictions can bring out the worst in some people. Talk to any local service or retail business owner or staff, and chances are they have at least one story to share about customer pushback, verbal abusive and aggressive behaviour.
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