(12-15-2021, 05:10 PM)robkelk Wrote: Canada's back to "avoid all non-essential travel" outside Canada
Needless to say, the airlines don't like it.
Allergists hit with surge of vaccine exemption requests, but rarely grant them
In Ontario, they're the only ones who can grant medical exemptions to vaccinations.
Quote:"Those [seeking] exemption are asking ... to be seen as soon as possible — either to get benefit from going to restaurants, or being able to have removal of all the restrictions they have," said Dr. Ahmed Ahmed, a pediatrician who practises at the Kanata Allergy Clinic.
Ahmed says exemption seekers are "pushing" to be seen within a few days, while he simultaneously has a two-to-three-month waiting list for patients with food and other allergies.
"This leads sometimes to verbal abuse with my staff," Ahmed said. "It can be sometimes a hassle ... convincing them over the phone and answering their questions again, again and again."
To the people who want exemptions now, I say "Lack of planning on your part is not an emergency on the allergists' part." They have patients who will die without treatment; you won't die if you can't get on a plane or train or into a restaurant for a few months.
Something something "deprived of the freedom to consume etc. etc."