Coming home to roost.

Vincent J. Curtis

7 Feb 23

RE: Mask rule wouldn’t have eased virus surge in the fall, report says.  A CP story by Liam Casey and Allison Jones.  The Hamilton Spectator 7 Feb 23.

No wonder this report was buried.  What’s true now was equally true two and a half years ago.  On August 1, 2020, the Spectator was informed of the futility of masking, along with specific reasons why that was so.  An enterprising reporter could have put the argument before the laughably named “science table” and asked for a refutation.  But no, the Spectator chose to bury the story, and missed the scoop of the decade.

The Spectator was informed week by week and even day to day of the calamity and incompetence of Ontario’s response to the COVID pandemic, of the mistakes and incompetence of the “science table” on which no eminent scientist, engineer, or economist sat.  All buried, for the good of the team you understand.

Even Dr. Kieran Moore was exposed for his incompetence.  He clung to mask mandates to the very end, May 2022.  He couldn’t see the evidence before his eyes.  Now we know he was not an expert, that he was the vessel of an advisory body that finally came to see the light, and that is why Dr. Moore didn’t impose a mask mandate last fall.  Not because of his own expertise, but because of advice from people more expert than him.

What a farce.  People instinctively know the COVID pandemic was badly handled.  That discontent will remain beneath the surface for a long time.

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See my postings on Kieran Moore: Thumb-Sucking to the last (11 Feb 22) and Theater, Not Science (14 Feb 22) and the ever-popular The Futility of Masking (1 Aug 20)