Just When One Thought That Canada Couldn't Screw Up More, It Surprised Everyone

It's like a gift that keeps on giving:

Health Minister Patty Hajdu says she remains “laser focused” on stopping community transmission of COVID-19, despite calls for tougher border measures that could slow the entry of more transmissible variants.

 

Like, in India? 

Or wherever these guys came from?:

 About 1,400 Covid carriers arriving in Canada by international flights were unwittingly released from hotel quarantine, says the Public Health Agency. Cabinet last February 22 ordered passengers into three nights’ quarantine at designated hotels under a $225.6 million program: “I’m wondering how this can happen.”

 

Speaking of which:

As India faces down a devastating second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Canadian government says it has identified medical equipment from its emergency stockpile that it is prepared to send overseas to help.

 

Since when did we have excess? 

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Government incompetence? Quelle surprise:

Documents obtained by Global News and interviews with more than 20 health experts, including physicians and senior’s advocates, reveal how the Ford government received repeated and pointed warnings about the looming dangers lurking in long-term care homes, and how it failed to deliver what was desperately needed in a sector already devastated by a deadly first wave of COVID-19.

 

(Sidebar: where is Legault in all of this?)

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Labour Minister Filomena Tassi fabricated claims a “life and death” longshoreman’s strike at the Port of Montréal disrupted deliveries of pandemic medicine. The Department of Transport confirmed of thousands of shipping containers tied up at the Port not one contained vaccines: “Covid fearmongering is not a valid or compelling argument.”

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Since when was administration of a flu shot a political and not a medical decision?:

Ontario might shorten the length of time between COVID-19 vaccine doses and is looking into mixing and matching doses as it prepares to receive increased shipments of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.

The province expects to receive weekly shipments of more than 785,000 doses from Pfizer-BioNTech in May, and more than 938,000 doses per week next month.

Health Minister Christine Elliott said Monday that the added supply might allow the province to shorten the current four-month interval between the first and second shots.

"We expect that with the much larger quantities of the Pfizer vaccines that we're receiving throughout the month of May, that we may well be able to shorten the timeline for people to receive their second doses," Elliott said.

 

Also: 

Denmark has decided not to include Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 shots in its vaccination program, several local media reported on Monday citing unnamed sources.

The Nordic country last month stopped using AstraZeneca’s vaccine altogether over a potential link to a rare but serious form of blood clot.

Excluding the J&J vaccine, which accounts for around a third of Denmark’s total contracted supplies of COVID-19 shots, could significantly delay the country’s vaccination calendar.

 

Or maybe they don't like brain bleeds.