Sunday, August 02, 2020

The Other Scandal

The We scandal is a silver lining for the Liberals.

Consider these:

The Liberals failed to shut the borders to travel from China early on, allowing thousands of possibly infected travellers from the Wuhan region to enter our country.

Canada’s first CCP Virus cases all came from China, thus seeding further outbreaks. ...

The government claimed screening was taking place at airports, but that was revealed as a lie, and provincial governments had to send their own screeners to make up for the federal absence – even though it’s an area of provincial jurisdiction.

For weeks – and even months – the Liberals and the political class attacked the idea of border shutdowns, called people racist for wanting travel shut down, and obsessed over ‘prejudice’ and political-correctness. ...

Turns out, Canada had a strong Pandemic Early Warning System, that had worked well on Avian Flu, Ebola, H1N1, and MERS.

Then, about a year ago, the Liberals gutted the program.

Now, the Auditor General is investigating.

According to a report by the Globe & Mail, “Canada’s Auditor-General is planning to investigate what went wrong with the country’s once-vaunted early warning system for pandemics after the unit curtailed its surveillance work and ceased issuing alerts more than a year ago, raising questions about whether it failed when it was needed most.

Sources close to the matter said the Auditor-General is planning to probe the government’s handling of the Global Public Health Intelligence Network, or GPHIN, which was a central part of the country’s advance surveillance, early detection and risk-assessment capacity for outbreaks.”

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The Public Health Agency in a January 29 briefing note advised Canadians traveling in pandemic quarantine zones in China not to wear a mask despite local mandatory mask orders. Dr. Theresa Tam, chief public health officer, for weeks told the public masks were pointless and risky: “You have to be careful you’re not putting your finger in your eye.”

(Sidebar: thanks for the contempt, Quack.)

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Toronto may be getting a handle on community-transmitted cases of COVID-19, or so the data suggests, but that doesn't mean that the virus is anywhere close to under our control.

New confirmed cases of COVID-19 continue to enter Canada, or enter Ontario from other provinces by plane nearly every day.

A non-exhaustive database of "locations where you may have been exposed to COVID-19" is currently being maintained by the federal government based on information from provincial, territorial and international health authorities.

As of July 30, it shows that 34 international flights have landed in Canada with cases of the virus aboard since July 15.

Another six flights from within the country — two from Vancouver and four from Montreal — have landed at Toronto's Pearson International Airport over the past two weeks (which is as far back as the records are ever displayed.)

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Considering the many hundreds of billions that have been spent in Canada dealing with the CCP Virus Pandemic, $35 million for a potentially Canadian-made vaccine is basically nothing at all.


Nowhere in the frantic bleatings for THE CHILDREN (TM) do these things come up or even Patty's many, many trips while everyone else was forbidden to get their hair cut.


Also:

North Korea’s nominal head of state inspected the locked down border town Kaesong after a defector suspected of having the coronavirus returned from South Korea, said state media, signaling serious concerns about cross-border contamination.

The isolated country has claimed it has no domestic virus cases and has imposed strict quarantine measures and screening in Kaesong, just north of the border with the South, where the suspected coronavirus infection was reported.



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