Trump’s vaccines will save us from St. Theresa

Vincent J. Curtis

29 Mar 21

RE: Canada needs a blueprint for next pandemic.  Hamilton Spectator editorial of 29 Mar 21

In its editorial, the Spectator made a startling admission - inadvertently.  It admitted that even after more than a year of experience, Canada still has nothing like a blueprint for handling pandemics.  Despite supporting all those lockdown and conformity efforts to the hilt, and suppressing criticism of the people and the policies for handling the pandemic for a year, the Spectator admits that the experts have all failed us.

The editorial did everything except print the name of Dr. Theresa Tam, the sainted grand poohbah of the Public Health Agency of Canada, the agency at the heart of the calamitous failure.  The Spectator did find cause to blame Brian Mulroney (Conservative Prime Minister 1984-1992) and Stephen Harper (Conservative Prime Minister 2006-2015), but the bureaucrat most directly responsible in the failure criticized by the Auditor-General gets nary a mention.

One could speculate why, but that would be idle at this point.  But take this as a glittering example of what can happen when equity and diversity take priority over competence and merit.  Not all federal jobs are spoils to be divvied up at random in proportion to population.

What’s going to save us now are Trump’s vaccines, not clever lockdown measures and stupid masks.

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