Our citizens have been some of the most compliant with public health orders since the beginning of the pandemic. Chief Medical Officer Janice Fitzgerald has enjoyed a high level of personal popularity and her authenticity in media briefings engenders trust. The province has seen little in the way of protests against public health orders and those that have taken place were small.
Newfoundland and Labrador is a province where tuberculosis persisted into the 1970s. My own mother still talks about my grandmother spending time in “the san.” A sanatorium was a place where people with tuberculosis were sent to heal, separating them from family and friends, sometimes for long periods. The memory of vaccines eliminating the threat of tuberculosis and polio are still strong in our provincial consciousness.
Not so many decades ago, your survival in rural Newfoundland and Labrador depended on your neighbours as families worked together to hunt, fish and build infrastructure. We are accustomed to working together to get things done. There is literally a Broadway musical about how good we are at working together to get things done.tells the story of how on Sept.
While much has been made of how easy it is to manage a pandemic on an island, the reality is that Newfoundland and Labrador is a province that depends extensively on rotational workers. Many travel to remote work camps outside the province that have sometimes been super spreader locations for COVID-19. These workers have had to go through the difficulties of quarantining away from their families, and some have been keen to get vaccinated in order to reduce quarantine times.
The desire to do our part and be helpful is who we are in a world of rugged individualism. This pandemic has made it painfully clear that individualism will not serve any jurisdiction well going forward. In a globalized world, more co-operation is the only solution to increasingly transnational problems such as pandemics. Newfoundland and Labrador is so retro that we’re ahead of our time.
Subservient, nosy, interlopers ?
Nobody in Newfoundland listens to or wants to hear from her though.
Refuse to read an opinion written by this person! PERIOD
Maybe you should ask how many were coerced or mandated against their will to comply? I bet that number will amaze you.
That is because they take care of their neighbour’s and are concerned with the wellness of others, community first!! For survival!
Newfoundland rocks!
NL consistently punches above their weight. Always there for their neighbours. They represent the best of humanity.
Who are they going to blame for this then?
My favourite line “This pandemic has made it painfully clear that individualism will not serve any jurisdiction well going forward.”
Who cares! Hmm...please name other ONE VACCINE, that requires 3-4 doses in a 1 year period, and still does not protect you, or stop you from spreading it? Thats what happens when you elect stupid people!
Brightest folks in the country.
Aren't you jealous, rest of Canada? You should be, apparently... You uncultured science deniers!
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