Monday, October 26, 2020

In a Normal Country, Patty Hajdu Would Have Been Fired From Her Job AGES Ago

Her wearing a mask or not is irrelevant.

Masks that were once scoffed at but now seen as a sign of social piety are useless for keeping away the coronavirus microbe.

That she is unsuited for the job of health minister, that she is clearly on the side of China and that she flew home at taxpayers' expense when people were not able to attend funerals IS relevant:

It also speaks to solidarity: If you’re going to impose or support restrictions on everyday life, you had better abide by them. It is entirely reasonable that you’re allowed to unmask to eat a sandwich in an airport, but a great many restaurateurs in the Greater Toronto Area would say the same of their own establishments — and their governments have provided remarkably scant evidence to justify shutting down their dining rooms, for a second time, earlier this month.

It’s not as if this would be Hajdu’s first offence, either. At the same time she and her provincial counterparts at Queen’s Park were telling Canadians to lock down, she took four round trips on a government Cessna from Ottawa home to Thunder Bay. She offered no examples of lockdown-compliant constituency business that could not have been conducted from the nation’s capital.

 

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