To the editor:
I am embarrassed, ashamed and saddened by city council’s protest of the recent planned diversion of 25 per cent of Thunder Bay’s vaccine doses to help families and friends in Southern Ontario.
I am embarrassed, ashamed and saddened by city council’s protest of the recent planned diversion of 25 per cent of Thunder Bay’s vaccine doses to help families and friends in Southern Ontario.
In February, when our COVID-19 numbers were high, we received help from the province in the form of extra vaccine doses, financial support for isolation shelters, and hospital beds for our critically ill patients.
Now, when the crisis in our own backyard has eased, we have unanimously voted to protest the need for reciprocation. Obviously, our mayor and city councillors didn’t attend kindergarten to learn about sharing, kindness to others, treating others the way you want to be (and have been) treated, and about holding hands and sticking together.
Even if council doesn’t want to take the moral high road, at least acknowledge that we have been relying on the frontline workers in meat processing plants and Amazon warehouses to get us through this pandemic. Surely they deserve to be put ahead of us in the vaccination queue.
Joan Ashlee,
Thunder Bay
