More Hospitals Removing Punitive Visitation Rules

Unless they acknowledge that these policies were disastrous, they will attempt to reimplement them in the future.

A few weeks ago I wrote an op-ed to my local newspaper making the claim that hospital and long-term care home visitation policies were cruel and unusual.

It appears that more and more hospitals are dropping these punitive rules.

This past week, Northern Ontario's largest hospital seems to have finally stopped their punitive policy of denying unvaccinated people from visiting their loved-ones.

Except they won't explicitly say it... They just revised their visitation guidelines while removing one of the biggest restrictions ever imposed (vax status to enter) and hope no one will notice.

Why? Why the secrecy and ambiguity?

Because they know imposing and maintaining these restrictions were one of the biggest mistakes of this pandemic.

THE PROOF:

-NOVEMBER 2021: HSN (Sudbury Hospital) stopped allowing unvaccinated visitors in November 2021. At the time they had a total of 25 patients admitted for (or with) COVID or being monitored for COVID (one in the ICU).

-NOW (8 Months Later): HSN (Sudbury Hospital) quietly starts allowing ALL visitors back in. They currently have over 50 patients admitted for (or with) COVID or being monitored for COVID (one in the ICU).

You read that correctly. The hospital absolutely needed cruel policies restricting people from visiting indefinitely but is willing to scrap that requirement with more than double to amount of admitted COVID patients.

Is it because the policy worked? No. It’s because it failed. It’s because the vaccines don’t stop spread and we have known this for nearly as long as this policy has been in place.

They are quietly removing this restriction because they are ashamed and want us to forget what they did. But we can’t forget, and we must make them acknowledge this mistake. Not just because the people who were inhumanly denied entry to visit their family deserve an apology. But because unless they acknowledge that this policy was disastrous, they will attempt to reimplement them in the future.

Sources: HSN Website/Data + PHSD Website/Data