Staff at this Ontario hospital say going from heroes to anti-vaccine mandate targets is a heavy weight – CBC

Health workers across Canada have faced escalating levels of intimidation, harassment

Feb 04, 2022

Nicole Corry says she didn’t become a personal support worker to be called a hero. But she never anticipated she would be villainized as she puts her health and family’s welfare on the line to care for others amid a pandemic.

In the small industrial city of Sarnia in southwestern Ontario, Corry and her colleagues at Bluewater Health hospital are straining every nerve to see their community through the COVID-19 crisis, including those who target them with pandemic grievances.

This duty of care to every patient, regardless of views or vaccination status, has been a lodestar for hospital staff.

But the COVID-19 surge fuelled by the Omicron variant has put this resolve to the test as health workers contend with accumulated burnout, depleted resources and more staff out sick — compounded by the unsettling sense that some of their neighbours have turned against them.

Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/anti-vax-protests-bluewater-hospial-sarnia-ontario-1.6339431