Thread by @jmcrookston

That is the oldest public health excuse in the book.

For $420,000 per year plus pension, do better.

No acknowledgment that this transmits via aerosol so indoor spaces dangerous, means people distancing 2m are still at risk.

We are well into negligence territory.

https://twitter.com/ColinDMello/status/1314617778364710912

Just a reminder that the government was not liable during SARS because it argued that it was making policy decisions, not operational ones. So nurses sued their employer.

Getting the science wrong is not a policy decision.

Enjoy.

You can see the Crown liability laid out here, in s. 95 of the Health Protection and Promotion Act. (Also under the CPLA as well if you click through to that Act.)

canlii.org/en/on/laws/sta…

Crown under (1).

And boards of health under (3).

"(3) Subsection (1) does not relieve a board of health from liability for damage caused by negligence of or action without authority by a person referred to in subsection (1), and a board of health is liable for such damage ..."

And a reminder that the WHO is an advisory body only. Their guidance is not a defence to negligence. As they themselves say, each country's leadership has to make their own decisions.