No one is to blame

Vincent J. Curtis

5 Jan 22

RE:  Local hospitals full ahead of COVID surge.  By Joanna Frketich.  The Hamilton Spectator 5 Jan 22.

Incompetence is everywhere on display in the condition of Hamilton’s hospitals to meet the latest surge.  After two years of pandemic, hospitals are full – before the surge hits.  Hospital staff are supposed to be 100 percent fully vaccinated, and how’s that working out?  Hundreds of staff are calling in sick, and this is after the kulaks who refused vaccination were released.

There is no focus on the vulnerable.  We’re still getting lockdowns of the young and healthy.  If instead of 25 million injections of vaccine (or whatever it is) Ford had acquired 30,000 doses of monoclonal antibodies in the fall, he would be able to reduce hospitalizations by 80 percent in this wave, which would mean a hospitalization rate for Omicron of around 0.2 percent, easily handled by hospitals even as they are.

But the alleged experts advising Ford missed that bus.  Of course, it’s not their fault they’re too busy to keep up with the literature.  Monoclonals have been available since September, 2020.  Trying to protect everyone, Ford’s experts didn’t focus protection on the vulnerable, and wasted time and resources on an irrational goal.  The goal of protecting those who don’t need it.  Vaccinating children isn’t to protect children from death by COVID; it’s to possibly protect vulnerable adults who might live with them at home.

Children should be in school.  Universities should be fully open.  Healthy people under 25 are at essentially zero risk of death from COVID.  They should be congregated together away from the vulnerable.  By closing schools, they’re mixed in with the vulnerable.  How stupid is that?

No one is to blame, of course.  Not is a socialist health care system in a province run under the rules of the Chinese Communist Party and with social pressure techniques used by Joseph Stalin.

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