(This is a nascent site. I will be expanding and updating it as I am able.)
Declare a Healthcare Emergency in the Legislature, including a commitment to direct the full power of the government to finding and implementing short and long-term solutions to stabilize our healthcare system.
Appoint a multi-disciplinary panel to guide efforts, including patient safety experts, health care professionals and scientists, engineers (including system engineers and human factors experts), and occupational hygienists.
Suspend any major reorganizations to the healthcare system until at least this current crisis is receding.
Implement mandatory mask wearing in all healthcare settings (hospitals, clinics, etc.), schools and school buses, post-secondary institutions, public service spaces (libraries, government offices, courts, etc.) and other public buildings including correctional facilitities.
Provide everyone with N95 respirators or equivalent, including those unhoused and incarcerated. Include guidance about reducing repeated donning/doffing to maintain performance of respirators.
Mandate HEPA or CR-box filter units in every room in schools, healthcare spaces, post-secondary institutions, public service spaces and public buildings including correctional facilities. Mandate MERV-13 or greater filtration in all work places, schools, healthcare spaces, post-secondary institutions, public service spaces and public buildings including correctional facilities.
Re-implement test/trace/isolate for SARS-CoV-2 (the viruses which cause acute COVID-19 and long-COVID).
Prioritize the immediate development of a publicly-funded paid sick/isolation leave program.
Re-energize vaccination campaigns and programs for COVID-19, influenza, RSV, pneumonia, and measles. Bring vaccination clinics to schools and workplaces.
Implement a public education campaign about (a) the airborne nature of COVID-19, (b) mitigations to prevent COVID-19 infections, (c) the dangers of long-COVID and the conditions triggered by COVID-19, and (4) ways to reduce personal risk of COVID-19 developing into long-COVID.
Prevent school boards and other publicly-funded institutions from forbidding people from bringing carbon dioxide meters into buildings.
Mandate all school boards and other publicly-funded institutions to follow any guidance they have received from insurers, engineers or occupational hygienists to improve indoor air quality.
Extend complex care time codes to virtual care.
Make retro-active payments for provided and as yet uncompensated complex virtual care.
Clear apology by government to family physicians, acknowledging the attacks it has made upon family physicians.
Immediate funding to enable family practices to stabilize their practices right now. (Examples include being able to hire staff to catch up on preventive care screening.)
Return of ability for family physicians to order planned monitoring blood work for up to five years (it currently must be renewed annually).
Direct all governmental agencies and government-owned entities at all levels to immediately make changes that relieve burden from family physicians. (Examples include extending sick leave periods before medical notes are required, and extending renewal times for health/disability accommodations medical forms from one year to five years.)
Immediately implement the solutions suggested in the Alberta MaPS process (or similar Provincial/Territorial consultative processes) which can be done quickly and at low cost.