15 months into the C19 response and Canadians are confronted with an unflattering reality. Contrary to our national myth of "sound governance" we find ourselves devoid of leadership and being slowly suffocated by empty platitudes and virtue signaling. 1/
https://twitter.com/JamesManson6263/status/1392901063334891528
From the local to the federal level, leaders are adrift, too scared to face the truth. That being our public health response to C19 has been an abject failure from start-to-finish. Our leaders lacked either the fortitude or skill to stop it. 2/
Canada's C19 response should have been stopped on day 1. Claims of viral lethality and efficiacy of NPIs/vaccines were wildly exaggerated. Instead of walking back these claims, public health embraced them, creating interlocking layers of incoherent policy. 3/
As these policies failed, public health was pushed further to the intellectual fringes. There was the ever increasing embrace of coercive tactics and the deliberate attack on the foundational principles of scientific inquiry. 4/
It should be clearly stated that public health's failures are theirs and theirs alone. Canadians have been generous to a fault despite the serious damage inflicted upon them. Our local economy, educational and health care sectors have been pushed to near collaspe. 5/
Our leaders need to recognize their role in enabling policy failure. We also need our legal community, like @JamesManson6263, to add their voice and put in place the mechanisms needed to critical examine the roots of failure and ensure it never happens again. 6/
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