Le Regard Libre N° 68 - Giovanni F. Ryffel (readers' letters)
Restrictive measures in retirement homes are a scandal of inhumanity. There are people who suffer from a lacerating solitude, torn as they are from their loved ones; the most mortifying depressions can only be cured by the contact and living presence of loved ones, and this is precisely what is now being restricted beyond all reasonable prudence; this results in an obvious injustice. There are even those in the terminal phase of life who cannot be properly accompanied by those who love them. Is it an effective fight against Covid to force them to die alone?