Dear Community Members of Moose Factory;
It has been brought to our attention and to our concern about the reaction of how our community has been coping and dealing with this flu H1N1.
As rumor has it and we are here to set the record straight, it is true a family member had contracted this illness while here in Moose Factory upon a regular summer visit which began at the begining of July. Three week later the baby fell ill after coming into contact with someone from this town. The baby was treated for pneumonia but later tested for this flu and as were the caregivers of this child. This personal private information was ours to be held in confidentiality but has been the talk of the town lately, so we are here to share and to hopefully address this problem of how people are handling this illness in our community.
As a family, we have kept to ourselves and as the doctor recommended we took the proper precautions to contain this flu virus from spreading any further. However, our mother has been doing our essential shoppings and has had NO SIGNS OR SYMPTOMS of this flu virus has encountered numerous incidents of discrimination specifically from store personnel, taxi drivers, random community members, restaurant owners to name a few.
If you are not sure about how you can contract this flu we advise you to seek advice from someone in the medical field or from the local Health Centre. The flu is here and its possible it was here already and we were just the first to receive testing.
Once again rumors and gossip escalate and thus in turn people react with mistreatment and prejudice because they are not informed or do not understand and need further information. We understand that this flu is new and thats scary but treating people differently is inexcusable. By following certain instructions such as washing your hands, coughing in your shirt etc can help you from getting this flu. However alienating someone who you think may have it is just cruel. Therefore, we ask you to question yourself. Would I treat someone I know differently if he or she has this flu? Most likely you would NOT because you love and care for this person dearly and its almost like a seasonal flu and you would try to make this person feel better.
It is our hope that this flu H1N1 is contained but it is possible it may be inevitable and spread. Not everyone in our household got this flu and it could be they are immune to it. So please try to be human and have some compassion for those people who have the flu and who may not!
Yours truly without prejudice
Liz & Cheryl Blackned on behalf of Marjorie Blackned & family
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It is so true that some may think that it would never happen but life is full of struggles and sicknesses, so whats make us think it wont hit our own homes. In reality any type of flue will hit home even if we think that it wont, no matter how hard we may try to prevent it, one way or another it will happen. I would think that we as a people should pull together not discrimante against anyone that may or may not be sick in anyway, life is to precious in anyway or form to let those around us down.
ReplyDeleteI so agree with the comment above. It is at times like this that people need to know that they are cared about. Treating people like they have the plague is hurtful and cruel. I send get well wishes to the Blackned Family.
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