The education system is a terribly expensive baby-sitting service
Letters to the editor, July 29, 2021: Readers weigh in on the impacts of disrupted education, a conversation with Rosalie Abella, the housing market and more
Delayed care
Maclean’s
has been publishing touching tributes for the thousands of Canadians who have died of COVID-19.
Your tributes put a face to some of the more than 25,000 Canadians who have died of COVID-19 (“They Were Loved,” Coronavirus, July 2021). My concern is with all the people who didn’t receive proper care because of the pandemic. My brother, diagnosed with dementia, was kept in a Nova Scotia hospital and did not get to a long-term care home until nine months later. My sister, who was suffering from kidney disease, was kept on a stretcher in a hospital in N.L. for six days and eventually succumbed to kidney failure. My disabled brother was misdiagnosed with an eye infection and was nearly blind when my sister got him to a specialist.