Wow, People Totally Have A Handle On This Coronavirus

 A new phase in this gong show:

While our politicians and public health bureaucrats lectured us for months that restricting air travel would be racist, Taiwan began boarding planes landing from Wuhan, China, on Dec. 31, 2019, checking passengers for coughs and fevers.

That was the same day China told the World Health Organization a new pneumonia of unknown origin was circulating in that city of 11 million people, which is a major transportation hub.

Taiwan activated its Central Epidemic Command Center, created after the SARS epidemic, invoking 124 measures.

It ramped up production of masks, using the military and setting prices to prevent gouging.

As described in a March article, Response to COVID-19 in Taiwan in the Journal of the American Medical Association by health policy Professor Jason Wang, of Stanford University, and two colleagues, safety measures included:

“Border control from the air and sea, case identification (using new data and technology), quarantine of suspicious cases, proactive case finding, resource allocation … reassurance and education of the public … fighting misinformation, negotiation with other countries and regions, formulation of policies toward schools and childcare, and relief to business.”

Taiwan didn’t need a “Great Reset” to return life to normal as quickly as possible. It learned from its mistakes and fixed them.

And look where we are now:

The federal Liberals have announced a compensation program for anyone who is harmed by the COVID-19 vaccine — or any other vaccine that’s approved by Health Canada.

The taxpayers will pay heavily for their reliance on a retarded government.

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The Senate yesterday by an 84-2 vote brushed aside protests cabinet has not targeted pandemic relief to the poor. Two Liberal-appointed senators attempted to highlight the appeal by challenging a budget bill: “Are we seeing hypocrisy here?”

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The federal government awarded a $371-million contract to secure personal protective equipment — one of the largest medical supply deals in its history — to a small company headquartered in a house in suburban Ottawa that had no apparent prior experience in PPE procurement.

Proline Advantage Inc.'s tender submission was one of more than 26,000 received by the government through its BuyandSell.gc.ca portal after it put out a call to suppliers last March for help procuring PPE.

Of those thousands of submissions, a number of lucrative contracts went to low-profile companies that pivoted to the PPE market, seeing opportunity in the mad dash to secure supplies in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In the case of Proline Advantage Inc., the government says the company delivered the goods and fulfilled the obligations of its contract by August, coincidentally the same month Proline's PPE procurement website went live.

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Parliament must appoint an independent Inspector General to watch for sweetheart contracting, a former crime-busting Québec prosecutor testified at the Commons ethics committee. “You are thinking because of the pandemic everything goes,” said Denis Gallant, deputy counsel at a 2011 inquiry that exposed graft in the Québec construction industry: “As a taxpayer I have to wonder.”