Conservative MP Marc Dalton deletes tweet asking if businesses should reopen since most COVID deaths are in care homes. “Most deaths are in care homes where average life expectancy is 2 yrs & 65% usually pass in the 1st yr,” he wrote. “Time to start moving Canada back to work?”
OTTAWA – Even during the COVID-19 pandemic times, Conservative politicians continue to show cold heartedness.
Take for example the British Columbia Conservative MP Marc Dalton, who deleted a tweet asking whether it is time to start reopening businesses if most of the deaths from COVID-19 in this country are of older people in long-term care homes.
Dalton, who represents the riding of Pitt Meadows-Maple Ridge near Vancouver, posted the tweet Monday morning. It included a link to a story in the Globe and Mail reporting signs Canada is starting to flatten the curve in the COVID-19 pandemic, with the notable exception of outbreaks at long-term care facilities in Ontario and Quebec, reported Canadian Press.
“Most deaths are in care homes where average life expectancy is 2 yrs & 65% usually pass in the 1st yr,” he wrote. “Time to start moving Canada back to work?”
“Our thoughts and prayers are with the hundreds of Canadians who have lost loved ones because of COVID-19,” Dalton said. “I personally have an uncle in a care home who I love dearly who has contracted coronavirus.
The prime minister has said that we need to prepare for a second and, perhaps, a third wave. Canadians want to know how the government is preparing to get ahead of those waves and get our economy back
Scott Duvall, the federal NDP’s critic for seniors issues, was horrified by Dalton’s suggestion that if it is just older people dying the rest of Canada should be able to return to normal.
“I just can’t believe something like that can be said,” said Duvall. “It’s unacceptable. It is heartless.”
Green Leader Elizabeth May was almost speechless when she heard about the comment.
“What? What? What,” she asked repeatedly before calling it “horrific and immoral.”
Governments have adopted strict physical-distancing measures to try to contain the spread of the virus, including banning gatherings of more than a handful of people and closing many workplaces. Millions are out of work but so far, hospitals have not been overwhelmed.
Courtesy Canadian Press
