Editor:
(In response to ‘Picture This’ in June 17 Coast Reporter)
I am in a local cafe. A guy enters and shouts to the owner, “Should I wear a mask?”
“Your call” replies the owner.
“People sure have short memories” says the customer. “Jan. 2020, before the vaccine, I lost my dad to COVID along with 48 other residents in just three weeks at his care home in Barrie Ontario. The last two Father’s Days have been rough.”
“I am sorry to hear that,” says the owner, “I remember seeing the pictures of refrigerated trucks hauling out the dead from the hospitals in New York.“
Another patron in the cafe pipes up “I just read that COVID-19 mortality rates were approximately three to 10 times higher in neighbourhoods with visible minorities compared to less diverse neighbourhoods. These were the people on the front lines taking care of us during the worst of it.”
“Yes it is disheartening when people mock us for caring, there is something really sad with that picture” says the owner.
Warm Regards
Sandy Beresford, Halfmoon Bay
