Waiting

My son’s girlfriend had COVID, she was extremely sick for a few days and after six days decided to go get the test for COVID, it was positive. She is doing well now, but she was unwell for about two weeks. Once she became ill she followed the rules and self-isolated, but since my son had been with her the days before she started feeling ill, he decided to go for a test himself. He tested negative. Stress is relative, but my wife and I were nervous and stressed out while we were waiting for the results.

Here is what happened when my son's girlfriend was told she had a positive reaction. She had prepared a list of all the places she had been in the 10 days prior to getting sick but the contract tracer told her that they weren’t interested so no contact tracing was done, which we thought was strange.

My daughter who lives in Victoria State Australia said that in her state, the contract tracers took all the details and called all the people and places a person who tested positive had been. The person is told to self-isolate and they are monitored by the health authority and the police. All the places a person with COVID has visited are closed for a minimum of 3 days for full Covid clean. And every person who was there is contacted and told to self-isolated until they get a negative result.

The Health authority that I live in is the same as my son’s girlfriend and it has had three times as many cases of COVID as the other large health region in our Province. I believe that something is wrong with how they are doing their job. The lack of interest in contract tracing by the authorities in my son’s girlfriends’ case is but one example. In our Province, there was an order that limited the number of care-homes workers could work in, and it was evidently implemented throughout the Province but in my health region, it was rolled out very slowly. I understand the order was given in June, but our health authority has just recently made sure it has been implemented in all the care-homes in its jurisdiction. An awfully slow response which may have resulted in more deaths than necessary.

The response to COVID is unique to every jurisdiction as every area is fighting it sown Pandemic, but I am of the opinion that the people in charge in my health authority are not doing a very good job at this time of writing, but I am hopeful that their response will improve before more people die unnecessarily.