Opinion

What began in the West End has encompassed the Lower Mainland, including the Tri-Cities — and this letter writer thinks the cheer is misplaced.

The Editor, As the COVID-19 pandemic continues I — a working front line paramedic and emergency nurse — see the stress and fatigue on the faces of my colleagues while they continue to provide a high-level of professional care.

Editor: I read with interest recent article in your esteemed paper (Time for smokers to butt out is now, or risk ventilator shortage: researcher).

Editor: While at work one day in 2013, I got a call that no one every wants to hear - you dad had a catastrophic stroke, he is in the emergency department at Royal Inland Hospital, Kamloops (I live in Burnaby).

“Stay at home” is the message we hear daily, but it resonates even more urgently when you find out your daughter-in-law, an acute care nurse, has been called to work on the COVID-19 ward in her hospital.

The Trudeau government has struck a deal with opposition parties to swiftly approve a massive $73-billion wage subsidy program aimed at helping businesses and workers survive the economic ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Eleven years ago B.C. and Canada got an indication of how bad a pandemic can be, when the H1N1 (aka “swine flu”) influenza pandemic arrived. In retrospect, in was just a light sample of what was to come.

From the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have regularly seen people choose to wear a variety of masks, from medical masks to cloth face coverings, in grocery stores and parks, on buses and sidewalks.

Editor: An open letter to Dr. Victoria Lee, President and Chief Executive Officer, Fraser Health Authority, and Dr.