Where has the Covid19 danger really been?

Where has the Covid19 danger really been? 

Long-term-care (LTC) facilities.  What a travesty. 

The reporting from our military over the conditions found there are sobering.

81% of Canadian deaths have been amongst residents of LTC facilities, in Ontario that is some 1745 deaths of 2155 total deaths 

Let that sink in. 

410 deaths amongst 14,730,000 people of Ontario not in LTC. 

1745 deaths among the +/- 70,000 residents of LTC facilities.

Some stats on LTC residents: 90% have some form of cognitive impairment, 86% need extensive help with activities such as eating and going to the washroom, 80% have neurological diseases, 76% have heart/circulation disease, 40% need monitoring for acute medical conditions, 50% of residents are over age 85. 

The average time spent by a resident in a long-term care facility before death is 2 years – this is the last stop before heaven. 

I am not saying their deaths are any less of a tragedy, all death is a tragedy.  But, these people were already ‘locked down’ – and it actually made things worse for them.  People have brought the virus to them because it was rampant in the community before the lockdown was even implemented. 

Imagine being locked down in your home, but people kept coming and going all day long and you could do nothing about it.  Couldn’t leave, couldn’t avoid them.  The only grace I see in this is that many of these folks don’t realize what happened, and given their age hopefully most of them had a chance to hear the Gospel during their lifetimes.

The only way to protect them is to quarantine the sick from having access to them.  However it is clear that the virus was rampant in the community prior to the lockdowns being implemented, because people were not going into these facilities with symptoms, but they left passing the virus to residents.

Biblical quarantine laws are applicable here and their wisdom is valid.  Quarantine the sick; keep them away from the healthy.  You can read about it in Leviticus 13.  In the case of LTC facilities, ‘the camp’ is the facility.  The sick is assumed to be everyone, given the plausibility of asymptomatic cases.  Show yourself to the priest: is ‘get tested for Covid19’.  No one should have been going in and out without testing, from day one.  I will write again later about why and how this quarantine law should have been applied wisely to the general populace.

We should be concerned about this because of what happened and the conditions that have come to light.  But also - let's face it - there is a good possibility that many of us will be in these facilities one day.  If nothing changes that is a scary thought.