As we enter the 19th month of the COVID-19 pandemic and in response to recent harassment of health workers, the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) is launching a campaign to encourage Canadians to express their support of Canada’s health workforce. The campaign “I Stand with Health Workers” encourages Canadians to show their support and appreciation of health care workers by adding filters to their Facebook and Instagram accounts or using the hashtag #StandWithHealthWorkers.
“Our health workforce has shown extreme resilience and compassion throughout this pandemic and deserve our gratitude. In the past months, we’ve seen a small proportion of the population devalue our healthcare professionals and it’s time to raise our collective voices and speak louder,” says Dr. Katharine Smart, CMA President. “As this pandemic drags on, we need to acknowledge and thank our health workforce who has been there from day one.”
In a recent survey by the CMA, 87% of Canadians agreed that supporting health care workers was a priority, recognizing that such support will lead to improved access to care and quality of care.
Time to step up the vaccine campaign
The CMA reminds Canadians that they can help by getting their COVID-19 vaccine, keeping up with social distancing, wearing masks and following local public health guidelines. The CMA also encourages governments to step up their vaccine campaigns to encourage vaccine-hesitant Canadians to get the jab.
“Being a Canadian means caring about your neighbour, being community-minded and making the choice to be vaccinated,” adds Dr. Smart. “It’s an act of compassion for the people around you and those who care for you. Health workers are doing their part. It’s time for the rest of us to do the same.”
SOURCE Canadian Medical Association
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I stand for health care workers 100% but I also stand for freedom so people can decide for them selves what to inject into there body. Anyone trying to make someone do or take some drug that they don’t want by threatening them with losing there job is not right but also illegal in this country. Health care worker were looking after the sick before this so called vaccine was around so there is no reason why they cannot keep doing it vaccinated or not and that should be there choice and everyone else’s choice as well.
Amen brother totally agree stay strong
I stand with Health Care worker’s and I’m tired of hearing people divert to the false narrative about personal rights and freedom if choice. This is a global pandemic passed on exclusively by people, so its not personal. It’s no ones “right” to put any number of lives at risk via Covid any more than it’s anyone’s “right” to drive at high speed on the wrong side of the road.
We talk about a society that values personal rights, but we fail to have a society at all when people are so fixated on their personal fears that they ignore the well-being of others.