When a columnist in a flippant 2 liner declares that Canada has been flat footed, always late and with the wrong measures on the pandemic the credibility is gone. Even if you believe that columnists always believe they are right, this is a columnist at his worst.
First of all, they need to explain why they're using "Canada" as a single thing, when you could hardly find two more different health system strategies than the Maritimes and the Prairies.
Quebec was late - a month late - with the measure of forbidding care-home workers to work in multiple homes at once - Dr. Henry in BC was on top of that instantly, a month earlier.
The high infection rates in the Prairies have ruined (for a while, only, one hopes) the perfect distinction we had a week ago: on the CTV page that tracks current 7-day-avg infection rates for all 51 states/DC and a dozen provinces/territories, the worst province in Canada was at #52, better than all the US states, better than lily-white Vermont with its 75% vaccination rate.
If it were just the Trump-ridden States, it wouldn't be such a big slam-dunk: but we're also miles ahead of the UK, our care-home disaster was still not as bad as the horrors of Italy, Spain, Belgium.
The whole article reeks of drumming up an "issue". Afghanistan isn't. Everybody knows we went only to avoid getting sucked into Iraq, and that we left years ago.
When a columnist in a flippant 2 liner declares that Canada has been flat footed, always late and with the wrong measures on the pandemic the credibility is gone. Even if you believe that columnists always believe they are right, this is a columnist at his worst.
First of all, they need to explain why they're using "Canada" as a single thing, when you could hardly find two more different health system strategies than the Maritimes and the Prairies.
Quebec was late - a month late - with the measure of forbidding care-home workers to work in multiple homes at once - Dr. Henry in BC was on top of that instantly, a month earlier.
The high infection rates in the Prairies have ruined (for a while, only, one hopes) the perfect distinction we had a week ago: on the CTV page that tracks current 7-day-avg infection rates for all 51 states/DC and a dozen provinces/territories, the worst province in Canada was at #52, better than all the US states, better than lily-white Vermont with its 75% vaccination rate.
If it were just the Trump-ridden States, it wouldn't be such a big slam-dunk: but we're also miles ahead of the UK, our care-home disaster was still not as bad as the horrors of Italy, Spain, Belgium.
The whole article reeks of drumming up an "issue". Afghanistan isn't. Everybody knows we went only to avoid getting sucked into Iraq, and that we left years ago.
Re: vaccine passports. I'm looking forward to the discussion we need to have on this. That is:
- fly to London, England: sure OK
- bus to London, Ontario: maybe? Good opinions on both sides.
- drive to London Drugs: WTF.