Ottawa-Carleton District School Board (OCDSB) trustee Nili Kaplan-Myrth said her catching COVID-19 was preventable. .“Felt unwell when I woke up Saturday,” tweeted Kaplan-Myrth on Sunday. .“Instead of going to synagogue for Rosh Hashanah, I tested for #COVID19.” .Kaplan-Myrth said she was two weeks into the school year and had two OCDSB meetings. Because people refused to listen to Ottawa Public Health and mask up, she said she has to cancel one to two weeks of patients. .To be clear, she said this is her second infection. Her first time was when mask mandates were dropped in Ontario and her son came home from work at a local store with COVID-19. .While she has seen patients in person throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, she never got sick because she maintained a mask mandate. .Kaplan-Myrth followed up by saying she made it to the third day. .“To the nudniks who ask if I’ve died yet: 1) Thanks to science, I’ve had #CovidVaccine boosters,” she said. ."#COVID19 can result in serious sequelae, including #LongCovid." .To prevent catching COVID-19, she said people should mask up. Masks work best when everyone wears them. .She concluded by saying she has a family and patients. She asked people where their humanity was. .Kaplan-Myrth said on the Agenda with Steve Paikin on TVO in 2022 Ontario is not back to normal. .READ MORE: WATCH: Ottawa doctor claims returning to pre-pandemic 'normal' is 'far-right language'.“The language you use when you say something like normal is far-right language of anti-maskers, anti-vaxxers, and ableists who disregard the impact of COVID on seniors, on children, on educators, on essential workers, on healthcare workers, on our healthcare crisis,” she said. .“There’s nothing normal about getting COVID, repeated infections, children and adults being hospitalized and long COVID.” .Kaplan-Myrth went on a rant when asked to defend her arguments about why mask requirements in schools should return on the Morning Rush with Bill Carroll on 580 CFRA in November. .READ MORE: WATCH: Ottawa school board trustee has meltdown about mask mandates.“But I have to start right off the bat by correcting the misinformation you just said,” she said. .“COVID is not gone.”
