Thread by @Balacla27914533

1/What is #CovidEquity? The U of T Institute for Pandemics (headed by @DFisman) offers some clues as to how (at least a portion) of the CAN academic health sciences sector envisions responding to C19 and future pandemics through an equity lens.
dlsph.utoronto.ca/pandemics/

2/ The website's spendy splash page identifies U of T's ideological concerns in responding to pandemics:
1. Climate Change
2. SARS
3. Migration
4. Urbanization
5. Interdependence
6. Tech Disruption
7. Mistrust
8. Overburdened Health Systems
These are important issues, however...

3/I am old enough to remember when emergency management was apolitical and focused entirely on mitigating the emergency at hand, with a primary goal of getting to the recovery phase, while causing a minimum of disruption to the normal function of society along the way.

4/Traditional emergency (pandemic) planning & management practices have been reflected in comments by former public health officials like Dr Richard Schabas...
nationalpost.com/news/canada/on…

5/...and seasoned logistics/emergency management experts like Colonel David Redman. Please take the time to watch this video to understand how an emergency SHOULD be managed (from 7:40)

6/Instead of using long-established, thoughtful pandemic plans, the western world's response has unfolded under the guise of social equity, championed by globalist interests and the far-left of academia (whos allies seem to populate the majority of key public health positions).

7/This is reflected in much of what we see not only from U of T's Pandemic Institute's website content, but from other influential bodies such as the WEF
weforum.org/agenda/2020/09…

8/Or hi-placed officials such as Anthony Fauci
rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…

9/One of the primary takeaways from the C19 experience is that we need to divorce health/pandemic/climate theory, research, forecasting and policy from emergency planning and actions taken on the ground to address an acute emergency.
emergencymanagementontario.ca/english/emcomm…

10/If C19 were a burning house. A #CovidEquity response sends the firefighters to hose down every house in the neighborhood (causing untold water damage) while attempts are made to put the primary fire out with buckets of water. Emergencies must be managed by emergency managers.

11/It's concerning that financial interests are lining up behind politically driven disaster responses. Repeating the mistakes of 2020/21 will be catastrophic for our society and will be far from equitable. Groups traditionally championed by the left have been impacted the most.

12/Had we followed established, apolitical emergency management practices, C19 would be long behind us (apart from our continued support of LTC & the vulnerable living in our communities). We must put partisanship aside and tell our politicians in no uncertain terms #NeverAgain.