Thread by @DonaldWelsh16

A weekly reminder that you're in the midst of the worst social policy failure in Canadian history. Yes, it's alarming to watch especially in the absence of corrective action. Dreadful leadership plays a role but there is a larger structurally dynamic as well. 1/

That dynamic centers on the perpetual debate as how best to solve large societal problems. That argument pivots between two poles, that being a centralized or decentralized solution. Canada's constitutional design is purposely leveraged towards decentralized solutions. 2/

Despite this structural preference, Canada's C19 response has been centrally driven. The federal and provincial gov'ts (Ontario) consolidated power within cabinent and decision making bodies including PHAC, Ontario public health and the Ontario Science Table. 3/

This centrally driven process brought about the system wide failure you now observe. 15 months in and after trillions of dollars of public expenditures/private wealth destruction, basic services near collaspe and the threat of societal breakdown grows sharper. 4/

It is a stunning failure for those wedded to central planning and it will take a generation to fix. But as many from former eastern block nations remind me, the real danger lies ahead. Failing central planners rarely admit defeat and often become more dogmatic & ideological. 5/

We see this trend in Ontario. Policy perscriptions become ever more radical and divorced from reality. "Experts" have become distainful of the public as their failures become ever more apparent. This fuels resentment and distrust, with danger lurking just below the surface. 6/

It's understandable why central planning often fails as it's easily corrupted and politicized. But that aside, central planners are looking for absolution and as such the dull medical process of vaccination has taken on a peculiar religious zeal. 7/

It's presented as secular salvation to an illness that impacts few except the vulnerable. Maintaining this false narrative requires public health to deny science and their own statistical data. They must also deny the existence of alternative decentralized approaches. 8/

Central planners seem particular distressed by the Great Barington Declaration, a statement of time tested epidemiological principles. The declaration is community focused and engages the public in problem solving. It even boasts a successful track record. 9/

In the end, public health and its centralized approach to C19 will be remembered as a failure, as the rest are destined to pay for this mistake. Perhaps, it's that remembrance which will focus our energies on restructuring this underperforming community. End.