18 May 20
I understand why American media want to keep people scared and in line about coronavirus - why they want to keep everybody at home and away from work. If the economy stays flat, Trump loses in November. And if, contrary to their advice, the economy is reopened and the number of deaths “spikes”, they can blame Trump for those deaths.
But I don’t understand why the same thing is being done in Canada.
One of the things Dr. Theresa Tam failed to explain to the Arts majors, J-school types, and basket-weaving drop-outs at her press conference when she showed all those bell curves, is that the areas under the curves were the same. Tall and narrow or low and broad, the areas under the curves were equal, meaning the number of deaths they represented were the same. When Tam spoke of ‘flattening the curve’, she didn’t mean that fewer people would die, she meant that fewer people would die all at once. The health care system wouldn’t get overwhelmed with hospitalizations: sickness and deaths would be spread out over time.
But, drunk with power, and seeing the curve flatten, Tam and other tiny tyrants changed the objective to killing the virus, no matter how long it took. This simply isn’t sustainable. If, on reopening, deaths “spike,” it is only the curve asserting what is already baked in. We can’t stop it. We can’t delay the inevitable forever; we might as well reopen so we can get to the other side of this thing.
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