Wow, People Really Have A Handle On This Coronavirus

When you couple stupidity with antipathy, it becomes easier to understand how we ended up here:

Trudeau’s Liberals created a vacuum with regard to the COVID-19 virus with their consistent reluctance to level with Canadians. The prime minister seems congenitally incapable of sharing information, despite all the many pledges of openness he’s offered through the years, and his handling of the COVID pandemic has been consistent with that reluctance. Official statements have consistently sought to assure Canadians that everything possible was being done, that the government was moving heaven and Earth to obtain a ready supply of vaccines, and that no stone would be left unturned to ensure arms would be getting jabs before the winter snows ebbed.

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“What does the PM know about vaccine manufacturing plants?” Dan said in an interview with the National Post. “The setting up of a vaccine plant to treat COVID is a highly specialized operation, even if the know-how is provided.

“It will likely take at least two years by the time the Canadian-first vaccine will roll off. By that time, many changes may happen, such as the virus may be gone or further mutate, or there will be no more major vaccine needs, or many more well-established vaccine manufacturers will gear up production and provide excessive amounts of vaccines at highly competitive prices.”

 

(Sidebar: the moron actually insists that there is no problem and that everything is "on track".)

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"What we have today is not a Statistics Canada report; we have a massive human tragedy," said Poilievre, citing the 220,000 Canadian jobs lost in January, according to the labour survey.

"These people have no idea how they're going to put food on the table, and the prime minister expects them just to put it all on their credit cards."

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No, what is a "shameful disgrace" is how quick a country is to kill off its elderly, even leaving them at the mercy of a Chinese-spread virus, because they have outlived their Liberal-voting usefulness. Generations (if there are any) will not ask why we did not euthanise the weak and sick quicker but what was bloody wrong with us in the first place:

This is precisely the sort of situation people like, well, me assured Canadians would not or at least need not occur: Surely we were perfectly capable as a country of introducing a moderate euthanasia law that would be relatively infrequently used and not abused, we said. How bloody wrong we were. It is not being used infrequently: two per cent of all deaths in Canada in 2019 were medically assisted; 3.3 per cent in British Columbia. And it is being chosen by people in unconscionable situations.

Chris Gladders didn’t live in a tent. He lived in a squalid Hamilton, Ont., long-term care home, suffering from Fabry disease, a genetic condition that causes multiple organ failure. “The bedding hadn’t been changed for weeks. There was feces on the bed. There was urine on the bed. There was urine and feces on the floor,” NDP MPP Wayne Gates, who communicated with the family, told CBC. “The room was absolutely disgusting.”

Gladders, 35, chose to die with medical assistance last week. Greycliff Manor, where he lived, has had its operating licence revoked — effective June 1.

(Sidebar: so the appropriate response to this man's tragic plight wasn't offering better care but putting a pillow over this face? F--- you, Chris Selley.)

In 2018, Ottawa’s Roger Foley sued the province, credibly alleging he had been offered a medically assisted death as a remedy to long-term care options he found totally unacceptable. Jean Truchon, Gladu’s co-complainant, opted for an assisted death in April last year sooner than try to survive the pandemic in a long-term care home — and when you look at Quebec’s long-term care homes, it’s tough to argue he made a bad choice.

But I wouldn't want to put all of the blame on the government and its unfaltering arrogance and ineptitude. By weakly and stupidly accepting idiots' management of something even smaller nations managed to get a grip on because one is too dull or unimaginative to consider solutions themselves (would trusting the same idiots who repeat their mistakes magically perform well through the power of wishing?), Canadians must accept their share of the blame for letting the government convince them that floor stickers are a rational guide to maneuvering through this extended flu season.