I Want To Write About These Matters

That is my reason for writing on here, dear reader. It helps you understand why I write about a particular subject at a particular time.  It is really that simple.

I use my articles on this Website as my way of letting people know how I feel about something that I see taking place. It may be something that I support or a matter that I oppose. Moreover, I may believe as well that these are matters may be of interest you. Accordingly, I want to set out my position so that you will understand what one point of view on a particular subject can be. Hopefully, it supports what you already believe or, if I am fortunate, may change your position to what I am now arguing. No problem with me though if I cannot convince you to support what I am arguing.

I have written about so many different subjects on this Website and set out my position on these matters. I have to tell you that I really look at each one of them quite closely, do the research I need, and then base my decision on the matter on what I have found.

My purpose is to let you know what I think is important on a file and give you the reasons why I am making the decision that I do. Who knows, it may be of assistance to you, dear reader, when you have to decide what your position is.

I trust you understand better what I do. It really is that simple. Accordingly, here is what I am writing now.

I NEED A DOCTOR NOW

I really have no idea anymore what the position on medical facilities is in this area! Seriously, haven't we all seen stories in the media about how everything is so filled up with all of the sicknesses that we are experiencing now.  In fact, it is so bad that sick patients have difficulty getting into rooms at all at this time.

Then, I saw this story that just overwhelmed me completely. It just seems to me that matters are completely absurd as far as I am concerned. I cannot believe that we should be in the position we seem to be with so many people who are ill these days. That position is that our hospitals are quite overbooked with ill people so that it is difficult for someone who is now ill to have access to a hospital room right away.

Take a look at this and you may understand now why I am telling you what I am:

"Windsor has 89 health care beds going unused due to a lack of provincial funding, despite a surge in hospital admissions that has kept Windsor Regional Hospital at or above capacity throughout the winter.

Windsor West NDP MPP Lisa Gretzky raised the issue during question period at Queen’s Park on Tuesday, calling on the Liberal government to provide more funding." (Craig Pearson, Windsor Star, March 6, 2018)

I really am stunned by this. Sure, it may cost more money, but I cannot believe that it cannot be provided. Is no one concerned that a sick person could get extremely ill because it might take that person so long to be admitted and treated properly!

Just think about it. Our so-called new hospital will only have 500 beds for all of the people in this area. What happens if they don't have a lot of money, even to fill all of those beds with patients? How many people throughout the entire region will not get access to this relatively small hospital and become really ill or even die?

According to the story, here is some information about hospital beds here today: 

"89 of them at one facility in Windsor [are unused]— which suggests the problem is more acute locally." 

How can that possibly be allowed when so many people need access to the hospital because of sickness? I just do not understand this at all. I read this comment that came from the Ministry of Health:

"The ministry is in regular, ongoing communication with our hospitals and LHINs to remain attuned to their needs. We will continue to work with our hospitals and their LHIN partners to ensure Ontario patients are receiving the high-quality care they need, when and where they need it.”

Unless that happens immediately, we must demand that the Minister of Health be tossed out of office and be replaced with someone who can take action to protect the health of so many people in Ontario.

A REASON FOR FLOODING IN OUR CITIES

It would appear that the more "sophisticated" our cities have become, and even trying to do more, then the worse their position has become for homeowners and others. Here is an example of what I mean:

"Paving over porous paradise, or any absorbent ground, increases the risk of basement flooding, say researchers using City of Toronto data.

Their study could help GTA homeowners make sense of the sometimes-ridiculed notion that the amount of land people cover with buildings, parking pads, parking lots and more, is linked to the costly rising tide of urban flooding that is expected to worsen in coming years.

“From what we have seen, areas with less green space — mostly developed areas, without any consideration for pervious or green areas — are more likely to have this kind of basement flooding,” (David Rider, TorontoStar, March 5, 2018) 

I have to admit that I am rather shocked by the flooding that I have experienced over the last couple of years since my family moved to Tecumseh. For the first time ever, we have had damage in our basement for 2 years, although it was not all that bad last year. Even in Windsor itself, there has been a lot of damage recently that I had not seen before. There is no doubt that I am concerned about what may happen this summer if we have heavy rainfall.

One thing for everyone to be concerned about with all of these problems that our homes are experiencing is what are the insurance companies going to do about it? Are they merely going to increase our rates so that they are significantly higher to pay for damages? Or, are they completely going to deny any kind of coverage for this kind of damage in the future because they are getting concerned that they cannot pay for all the problems that need fixing up.

This part of the story really explains everything that we have to be concerned about, and why we need to start taking immediate action to prevent significant damage happening in the future:

"Even if we’re having just a little more rain than we used to, the water ends up in basements and flooding roadways, flooding parks. The weather is changing, we are seeing more rain events more often. That combined with increased development, infrastructure that’s aging, us paving over areas that used to be able to soak up the water — the result is more (flood) events and bigger losses, too."

NEW FEATURE AT WALK-IN CLINICS

Given how many people have to go to medical clinics for care because hospitals are so jammed up supposedly, this is something very useful for us to take a look at when deciding where to go for immediate medical assistance because one is not feeling well:

"Medimap.ca, the brainchild of founder Blake Adam, officially launched this week, allowing folks to check not only wait times at participating clinics but hours of service...

"The wait times are what you would get if you were to call the clinic and ask the staff what the wait time is" (Julie Kotsis, Windsor Star, March 6, 2018)

I believe that this is quite an exciting new development because one may go to the wrong clinic for care and have to wait for a very long period of time without knowing that going to another clinic is better because they don't have as many patients in attendance.

Unfortunately, however, there can be a problem for some because having a certain Doctor who treats you may mean that you are only allowed to go to a specific clinic for care. In such a case, one is stuck going only to a specific clinic. However, it could be also that the only people allowed to go to that clinic are patients of specific doctors. That could mean that the number of patients actually at that clinic are not all that high.

Given the difficulties in this area respecting medical care, this is certainly a big advantage that can be of assistance to us, assuming that it works properly.