24 Feb A rare case of mice swimming toward a sinking ship

Last week on his Facebook page, retired journalist, restauranteur restaurateur, and civil servant Bill Turpin published photos of dirt and decay inside the troubled Victoria General Hospital. I reproduced a sample here.

A loyal Contrarian reader whom I’ll call “E” offers this telling addendum, snapped today in a cancer treatment room on the VG’s 11th floor:

And the closeup:

E reports the mouse trap has not budged from the location where she first observed it in December. Not unreasonably, she asks:

How do you catch a mouse with no bait?

How do you wash the floor without moving the trap?