With hospitalizations from COVID-19 going down, the government has removed most masking requirements in B.C., which has some parents concerned.
Masks may cover our mouths, but they've sparked some rather heated conversations over the past two years. And while most people would love to embrace a post-COVID world where masks are rarely seen, are we really there yet?
Some people feel like putting the onus on those who truly need that layer of protection, such as children who are immunocompromised or have family members who are, is just another example of how people who are medically vulnerable have been overlooked when it comes to COVID-19 safety. By sending her son to school, even if he's masked, she worries about what he'll now be exposed to and what he may bring home.
We disappear from our social circles, you don't really think of us. So it's easier to accept policy decisions that are like, 'Let these people handle it themselves.'As someone who is medically vulnerable herself, Young says she fears that as some people are forced to isolate more as restrictions are eased, they'll just be forgotten.
With COVID still very much active around the world, Lindsey Locke feels like her daughter's and many others' lives are being risked for the sake of healthy people. After being born premature, Lindsey says her daughter is very immunocompromised."The disabled and the immune-compromised and everybody deserves to access essential services like education, the grocery store, transit.
"The kids have to go to school to get an education. And so families that have immunocompromised kids or live with an immunocompromised family member, or an elderly grandparent, or an unvaccinated sibling? What are they supposed to do? There are a lot of families in that situation."
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