RNAO’s #TogetherWeCanDoIt campaign gains huge momentum

To show their support for nurses and other frontline workers fighting COVID-19, people from Ontario and across Canada are cheering them on every night at 7:30 p.m. local time. As part of the #TogetherWeCanDoIt campaign to #Cheer4HealthWorkers – spearheaded by RNAO’s Susan McNeil, staff, board, assembly and general members – and by now – the public at large – people are sharing videos on Twitter and Facebook of themselves banging pots and pans, singing, honking and clapping from their places of isolation, whether a front porch, deck, a balcony or through a window. RNAO’s Region 4 board representative Anita Tsang-Sit banged a pot while commending nursing colleagues and other health-care professionals during the outbreak. “Thank you to health-care superheroes who risk their lives for us every day,” she said in her Twitter video. RNAO Interest Groups representative Julie Rubel also participated, saying in her Twitter video: “We just want to say thank you. We’ll be out here every night at 7:30.” RNAO encourages everyone to take part while also keeping in mind safe social distancing (maintaining at least two metres of distance between you and others). To see how others are cheering on frontline workers, visit RNAO on Twitter and Facebook, and search the hashtags #Cheer4HealthWorkers and #TogetherWeCanDoIt.