Public Health Mismanagement

Vincent J. Curtis

21 Nov 21

RE: Unprecedented risk to health agency.  Hamilton Spectator news article 20 Nov 21.

The management of the COVID crisis has from the very beginning been botched.  Remember how “fifteen days to flatten the curve” turned into nearly four months of lockdown?  And why was lockdown resorted to?  It was to protect the health care system.  The saving of lives was a secondary and an indirect consideration.

It was made known in April, 2020, in articles by Dr. Scott Atlas, that prolonged lockdown would lead to perverse and counter-productive effects on public health.  He was disregarded, and lockdown remains to this day a resort to flattening the curve and protecting the health care system, despite definitive studies showing lockdown measures  are worthless in preventing the spread.

The perverse effects of lockdown forecasted by Dr. Atlas are now becoming plain.  Hamilton’s public health agency is now ‘at risk’ from all the other problems that were neglected to focus exclusively on COVID.  Hamilton is not alone in this.

British Columbia has suffered more deaths from drug overdoses than from COVID.  Alberta dropped COVID restrictions in July in part because a public health crisis in syphilis had broken out, and that required the immediate attention of health officials.  Government authorities across Canada spent hundreds of billions dollars fighting the effects of misguided lockdowns, but seemed never to have spent the tens of millions of dollars required to reinforce public health agencies so that they could walk and chew gum as it were in the midst of the pandemic.

Now, Hamilton can’t continue to ignore a growing health crisis caused by neglect.  But how is it expressed?  The agency is at risk.  Not lives, but the agency.

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