What COVID-19 pandemic has revealed re: ageism and ableism

[soleiltropiques]

OP: In my province (Quebec) of Canada, the treatment of elderly people has become a political scandal (there are already discussions of public inquiries into various such institutions and class action lawsuits by families of elderly patients), because the rates of infections and deaths in institutions which care for the elderly are out of control

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[pairatime]

The problem has nothing to do with who's running it (public or private because it's happen in care homes that are both) but in that fact that the general public just normally doesn't care. It is as you point out ageism. They're old so we forget them. We don't care as societies about what happens to the old as long as it's out of sight. Until that changes it really doesn't matter who's running it or funding it.

age is wisdom

[putyourendtowar]

this is very disconcerting to know that our socialist left wing government is intent on depopulating the elderly

[soleiltropiques]

I intentionally did not respond to or engage with these two comments. :)