When One Thinks of COVID Screw-Ups, Think of Canada

 

 

Turning on Tam? I should hope so: 

But Tam’s luck may have run out this week at a press conference on Tuesday. With remarkable and frankly inexplicable speed, the Canadian media narrative recently swerved from “will the inevitable fourth wave be the worst yet?” to “what’s taking so long to reopen?” We have surpassed the benchmarks Tam herself established in April for loosening restrictions: 75 per cent with a single dose, 20 per cent with two. Why, reporters demanded to know, has Tam not issued guidance on what vaccinated Canadians can and cannot do?

Tam did not seem prepared for that. The third time she was asked, she began as follows: “I’m sure you’ve heard that vaccinated people can get infected, so even the most effective vaccines are not absolutely perfect.”

This appeal to the lack of absolute vaccine perfection not well received. “The dour hopelessness of the messaging even as Canada administers vaccines at an astonishing pace is so demoralizing and seems horribly counterproductive,” Maclean’s Ottawa bureau chief Shannon Proudfoot wrote — accurately — on Twitter. “If Canada’s public health officials saw me giving food to a starving beggar they would run up to us, swat the food from my hands onto the street and scream at me about the risk of choking,” quipped National Post columnist Matt Gurney.

 

And why did Canadians and their mouthpieces in the press wait so long to be frustrated with a woman who has been consistently wrong?

Consider that Canadians lack the temperament and imagination to handle a crisis bigger than not being able to get onto Netflix right away.

 

There is only "transparency": 

Cabinet in a Canadian first is suing Parliament to conceal records over top security clearance given Chinese scientists at a federal lab. One MP last night likened the legal showdown to Watergate: “Shame on you.” 

 

 

I'm sure this is nothing to be concerned about: 

Official Chinese state-approved footage from years ago showing bats being kept at the Wuhan Institute of Virology has further fueled scrutiny of the research being conducted at the secretive facility.

A 2017 promotional video featured on the website of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), a top Chinese state-run research institute that administers the Wuhan lab, showed live bats held in cages inside the lab. In it, a researcher who wears blue surgical gloves was holding a bat and feeding it with a worm.

The video, made after the research institute obtained the nation’s first P4 designation—the highest bio-security classification—in spring 2017, also showed bats in a cage inside the lab. It said that the Wuhan lab researchers had collected more than 15,000 bat samples from various parts of China and Africa.

 

 

If this was in a movie, it might be amusing: 

A judge blasted a U.S. man for giving Sarnia border officers a single-fingered salute as he illegally raced through the city’s closed border last month, prompting a lengthy and dangerous high-speed chase through London.