Friday, April 24, 2020

When All Else Fails, Call Them Racist

It is an understatement to suggest that the coronavirus crisis was mismanaged from the very beginning.


Let's go all the way back to 2006:

The next pandemic will first emerge outside of Canada. The majority of new influenza strains emerge in Asia where the close proximity of humans, poultry and domestic pigs in farming communities facilitates mingling and genetic exchange between human and avian influenza viruses.  
The next pandemic virus will be present in Canada within 3 months after it emerges in another part of the world, but it could be much sooner because of the volume and speed of global air travel. This assumption regarding timing is based on the last two pandemics. In 1918, returning soldiers who had influenza and traveled by train carried the virus from Québec to Vancouver within a few weeks. Given the increase, different patterns and speed of modern travel, a new virus once arriving in Canada could spread quickly in multiple directions throughout the country.  
The pandemic virus may arrive in Canada at any time of year (i.e., potentially outside of the usual influenza season in Canada). The first peak of illness in Canada could occur within 2 to 4 months after the virus arrives in Canada. The first peak in mortality is expected to be approximately 1 month after the peak in illness. Based on past pandemics, when the pandemic virus arrives close to the usual annual influenza season in temperate climates (November to April), the interval from the arrival of the virus to the height of the epidemic can be very short. 
A pandemic wave will sweep across Canada in 1-2 months affecting multiple locations simultaneously. This is based on analysis of the spread of past pandemics including the 1918 pandemic. The influenza pandemic will occur in two or more waves. In any locality, the length of each wave of illness will be 6 to 8 weeks. The pandemic will last 12 to 18 months and more than one wave may occur within a 12 month period.

Who wrote that?

Why, this woman right here:




This Theresa Tam:

Jan. 29: Canada now has three cases. Dr. Theresa Tam, Canada’s chief public health officer,on Twitter: “I am concerned about the growing number of reports of racism and stigmatizing comments on social media directed to people of Chinese and Asian descent related to 2019-nCoV coronavirus… Everyone has a part to play in preventing the spread of the virus. The Chinese community and all travellers from affected areas are a key part of these efforts….Racism, discrimination and stigmatizing language are unacceptable and very hurtful. These actions create a divide of Us Vs Them. Canada is a country built on the deep-rooted values of respect, diversity and inclusion.”

Stigma as a public health concern is a major preoccupation of Tam, who in 2019 authored a report: Assessing Stigma: Towards a more inclusive health system.

Some former coronavirus patients have described constricted throats, severe fever,  body aches, dizziness and tiredness but Theresa Tam - who, along with Patty Hajdu (a graphics designer) - has repeatedly told Canadians, for whom she was appointed offer sound medical advice, that the risk of exposure to the coronavirus was low, that masks did not work and defended the WHO at every turn.

This WHO:
At first, the epidemiologist appeared to pretend not to hear producer Yvonne Tong’s question about whether the UN body would reconsider Taiwan’s membership. “I’m sorry, I couldn’t hear your question, Yvonne… let’s move to another one then,” he said.

When Tong called him back to ask again about Taiwan and its coronavirus measures, Aylward said: “Well, we’ve already talked about China.”

He then ended the interview, which was part of RTHK’s weekly news show The Pulse.

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World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Monday there was no need for measures that “unnecessarily interfere with international travel and trade” in trying to halt the spread of a coronavirus that has killed 361 people in China.

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How do we know that Dr. Tam knew the truth but ignored it? Because opposition MPs knew. People who read newspapers knew. On Jan. 27, Alberta MP Garnett Genuis asked in the House of Commons if the government would support Taiwan being allowed into the WHO, to learn from the stringent measures the island nation had instituted. Obviously, Genuis knew about the evidence  that Taiwan was so desperate to share with the world. The measures Taiwan implemented has meant that life goes on pretty much as usual over there. Schools, stores and business remain open.

On that same day, Conservative MP Todd Doherty asked federal Health Minister Patty Hajdu: “Every day thousands of passengers from China and elsewhere in Asia arrive at our ports of entry . . . China has quarantined whole cities and millions of people. The WHO has now listed the global threat as high. The safety of Canadians is currently dependent upon screening in China and self-reporting by infected passengers. When will the government institute a real plan that includes an enhanced screening process?”

It was a great question but the answer was weak. The federal government just kept deferring to Tam — the expert who was supposed to be looking into the science but who in reality was deferring to China’s talking points.

Two days later, on Jan. 29, Tam actually publicly praised China — basically parroting propaganda propagated by that totalitarian state after China was known to have lied for almost two months about the virus.

All of this brings one to the latest assault on Theresa Tam's now-nonexistent credibility.

I have put here the complete MP Derek Sloan's entire statement on Theresa Tam so that nothing will be misconstrued, misunderstood or otherwise left out:

 

(Sidebar: as of this writing, he has declined to apologise because he has stones.)


Cue the emotionally retarded and nonsensical defense of this incompetent parrot whom people slather over because she has a bit of paper (f--- you, John Ivison) and a poem she has penned herself about herself (if you want to read that self-serving twaddle, go ahead. I won't link it and you can't make me).


Mr. Sloan's detractors could, at any point, prove how competent Theresa Tam has been since January.

I'll wait.

Did she warn against leaving open borders or advocate strenuous testing at airports and demand enforced quarantines?

I'm sure her groupies will provide evidence of that.

Did she review any of the information that the WHO provided?

Did she, along with her handful of followers, ever champion the cause of the Chinese whistle-blower, Dr. Li Wenliang, before his death?

No?

But she did try to cover her own @$$.

She must because she has nothing else. If she cannot defend her actions or her deference to the WHO (that China has great influence on - prove one wrong), she must stoop to the post-modern refuge of scoundrels - that everyone who finds fault with her work must be a racist.

I wonder if she ever considers for whom else she carries water.

The puppet-leader of Canada (his "basic admiration" for China is well-known) stands in front of a cottage that is not his and reads lines that he did not write. He has no one to challenge him which suits him just fine.

When the dust eventually settles and people do wonder if they should blame someone, who will Justin deflect blame?

Theresa Tam has left herself open to more than just the incredulous on the other side of the aisle.


And Liberal voters, before trampling other Canadians and Americans with your high horse, don't forget who you re-elected:



Moral ground? You never had one.


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