If truckers were women, no one would care. Just ask nurses

Practically $6 million has been raised for truckers throughout Canada to go to Parliament Hill to protest the vaccine mandate. With all of the media protection, it appears to be like like they’re taking many Canadians with them.

I get it — Canadians are supporting alternative.

However the place was the help for nurses? Don’t get me fallacious, this help is gorgeous to see. I ask you, although, why has nobody fought this difficult or this loud for the ladies working tirelessly to fight this virus and save lives, whereas on the similar time risking their very own?

Roughly 91 per cent of our nation’s nurses are girls. The place was their help after they have been (and in some circumstances nonetheless are) pressured to work with out enough private protecting gear? They work double shifts due to being quick staffed, they usually’re mentally and emotionally drained.

But right here we're, throwing cash at a gaggle of males — over 96 per cent of truck drivers are male — who don't agree with the vaccine mandate. If the trucking business have been predominately girls, like nurses, there could be no such fundraising.

Truckers are heroes amidst this pandemic, and nurses are as effectively. I want that Canada stood behind these girls on the entrance line who've been on the centre of the pandemic for 2 years.

And right here is the factor about calling health-care employees the “entrance line.” It implies that there's a reserve pressure standing behind them, ought to the entrance line fall. However there is no such thing as a again up; nobody is ready to simply accept their baton and run the subsequent leg of the race towards COVID-19.

Girls have at all times dominated the nursing career. This isn't to depart out male nurses; they're equally valued. My level is, if nurses have been predominately male, do you assume the federal government and the general public would deal with them higher? I consider they might, and the way in which the general public has sympathized with truckers validates this level.

A part of Justin Trudeau’s platform within the 2021 election marketing campaign was making certain girls are represented in authorities positions. Positive, that was a begin. However because the pandemic continues, I've nonetheless solely seen our largely feminine workforce of nurses, caregivers and long-term-care workers being taken benefit of.

Nurses are burnt-out emotionally and bodily drained, however they maintain going. Would males do the identical? Or would they stroll off and make their calls for on Parliament Hill with the help of the complete nation? One thing tells me they might have already got wage will increase, together with many extra lodging.

Nurses are hurting. It’s time for the federal government, hospital CEOs and the general public to care concerning the spine of our battle towards the pandemic.

The narrative of the truckers is one about heroes and freedom. I want this nation was as supportive of nurses as they're of truckers, and simply as supportive of girls as they're of males.