Moe thinking about seniors in homes

I am a news junkie who watches between four and five hours of Canadian newscasts on TV every day. I also try to read every one of Murray Mandryk's columns in The Leader-post.

However, I would like to strongly disagree with Mandryk's categorizing Premier Scott Moe's opinion on homecare visits as horribly unwise. Premier Moe is compassionately looking for ways that family members could visit seniors in care homes with sufficient personal protection equipment.

I think that every day last week that there has been at least one health-care professional, possibly even as qualified as Dr. Saqib Shahab, who has recommended on TV to allow family members to visit seniors in care homes with proper protection for each.

Depressed seniors often stop eating, causing major organs to fail and then they die. One woman who went through isolation in March/ April applied for assisted suicide rather and go through the isolation again this wave. Others have said that they would rather die from COVID than loneliness.

Family members visiting can take care of many of the senior's needs, thus freeing up staff to look after others.

Even though breathing through a mask is difficult for me because of my asthma, I fully support mandatory mask use, social distancing, hand sanitizing and limits to the number of people in businesses and libraries.

Thanks to God, I am able to look after my wife who has serious dementia at home. If she were in a care home and I could not visit, we would both be dead.

I thank Premier Moe for trying to find a safe way to visit seniors in care homes. He would already know as a politician, that he will be criticized no matter what he does.

Jim Zinkhan, Regina