Please accept our gratitude. Quite simply, we just want to say thanks a lot, to all of you working in our health<\/p>\n
care system.<\/p>\n
In the Smithers area we are feeling the strain as a community during this fourth wave of the pandemic, like<\/p>\n
we haven’t felt before. Maybe it is because we have had such good fortune until now, that we are struggling<\/p>\n
as we are. Perhaps we just thought it wouldn’t affect us.<\/p>\n
Well, it’s affecting all of us now \u2013 and we are counting on our health care system, on our health workers to<\/p>\n
take care of us when we need help. As more patients are hospitalized with COVID19, and more people need<\/p>\n
critical care support, decisions must be made on who stays in the local hospital and who will be transferred to<\/p>\n
another hospital in another town. To you who must make those hard decisions \u2013 thank you.<\/p>\n
In a small town, you see people you know in the ambulance and the emergency room. You see the fear in the<\/p>\n
faces of your friends and neighbours. You see the anguish in the eyes of their family members. Thank you<\/p>\n
for your compassion.<\/p>\n
We know, most people in this community are doing all the right things to protect themselves from<\/p>\n
COVID19, but that we have a distance to go yet to get this under control. We urge people who have been<\/p>\n
hesitant, to step up now and get vaccinated. Do it for your own health, for your family and community. We<\/p>\n
are in this together and rely on each other to keep our town healthy and to really support those health care<\/p>\n
workers we depend on. We need room and capacity in the hospital not only for COVID19 patients, but for<\/p>\n
whatever emergency or health crisis an individual may face.<\/p>\n
Again \u2013 thank you. And while we’re at it, let’s say thanks to your families for supporting you as you work<\/p>\n
harder and longer under more difficult conditions.<\/p>\n
On behalf of Smithers Town Council,<\/p>\n
Thank you,<\/p>\n
Gladys Atrill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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