Wow, People Totally Have a Handle On This Coronavirus

At some point, some functioning adult is going to have point out (and forcefully, too) that the government is filled with idiots who thrive on the panic they create over a virus that China spread to the world:

Canada’s chief public health doctor says in the age of social media, fake news about the COVID-19 pandemic has been spreading faster than the virus itself.

Dr. Theresa Tam says all Canadians must play a role in not letting false facts destroy the collective effort to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus.

 

(Sidebar: it's public health officer, by the way. You can call this quack a doctor all you want but everyone knows what she really is.) 

I'll just leave this right here: 

Skip kissing and consider wearing a mask when having sex to protect yourself from catching the coronavirus, Canada’s chief medical officer said on Wednesday, adding that going solo remains the lowest risk sexual option in a pandemic.

 

That's nice, Justin:

Justin Trudeau told Global News he believes, now that the general public knows more about the need for masks and social distancing amid the pandemic, that some “targeted lockdowns’ maybe all that is required to avoid countrywide closures.

Yes, about all of that:

Canada’s department of Global Affairs shipped 16 tonnes of personal protective equipment to China last month to help Beijing fight the novel coronavirus, an effort that it undertook even after the World Health Organization had warned countries to prepare for possible cases.

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A key failure of the Trudeau government was kneecapping the government agency created to give it advance warning of pandemics, the Global Public Health Intelligence Network.

As reported by the Globe and Mail, the Trudeau government last year downgraded GPHIN’s significance.

It was told to concentrate on domestic health threats despite the fact pandemics don’t necessarily start in Canada.

The government also imposed a layer of bureaucrats from the troubled Public Health Agency of Canada on GPHIN, impeding its ability to directly warn political decision makers of the threat of COVID-19.

Lacking independent information, it’s reasonable to conclude the Trudeau government and PHAC initially under-reacted to COVID-19 because they relied too heavily on suspect information coming out of China in the early stages of the pandemic, when it might have been possible to contain it.

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While the provinces were trying to get a grasp of the mortality rate of the COVID-19 virus spreading throughout the country in the spring, federal officials were hitting a data wall.

In fact it could take months “and sometimes longer” for basic information, such as that contained in a death certificate, to make its way into national databases tracking COVID-19-related deaths, concludes the first annual report by the Canadian Statistics Advisory Council.

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Canada and the United States will maintain border restrictions until at least the end of November as the coronavirus outbreak in both countries continues to worsen.

Canada’s Public Safety Minister Bill Blair said Monday in a tweet announcing the extension that the decision was based on “the best public health advice available to keep Canadians safe.”

 

(Sidebar: ahem ...)

 

 

And I thought that Canada was leading the way: 

But amid the ongoing pandemic that has infected over 40 million people, including over 200,000 Canadians, they are critical to conducting novel coronavirus tests. Without them, the tests can’t be completed.

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Pharmaceutical companies and patient groups fear new price-setting guidelines could cut the number of clinical trials taking place in Canada and leave life-saving treatments out of reach.

 

 

Moron tries to dispel credible rumours about coronavirus camps:

“We’ve seen over the past number of years a rise in concerted efforts around misinformation and disinformation on a broad range of subjects, designed to undermine people’s confidence in their institutions, in their democracies,” Trudeau said. “Some are foreign actors trying to disrupt successful democracies, others are people with extremist agendas.”

 

Now why would people think things like that? 

It's called being a mum and that duty is for twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week:

A new study indicates some Canadian mothers have taken on the equivalent of nearly two full-time jobs providing child care during the COVID-19 pandemic.